Events & Special Displays

The Jenner Display

The ephemera of a lifetime are presently on display at Cuckfield Museum. The Jenners were a well established local family and under the terms of the will of Mary Jenner, who died earlier this year, the museum were offered some fascinating things. The family lived in their home in Cuckfield for over 80 years, buying the house in 1929 for the princely sum of £507.

They were obviously people who cared for their belongings and threw very little, if anything, away so that we have a unique record of a Cuckfield household which supported the local community, where simple toys were cherished and useful items kept to hand on to the next generation. There is something very poignant about seeing all these things that we all remember so well.

The Museum's regular series of talks continues in the autumn with one on Tuesday September 28th 2.30pm on "Archive Films of Mid-Sussex" when Alan Readman, Assistant County Archivist at West Sussex Record Office, will present a selection of archive cinefilms from the collection of Screen Archive South East, the Regional Film Archive, which has its repository and conservation centre at the County Record office in Chichester. The films will include professional and amateur footage dating back to the pioneeringdays of cinematography in the mid 1890s and continuing up to the 1960s. The focus will be primarily on Mid-Sussex and will offer a nostalgic look back at life in the county throughout the twentieth century.

On Thursday November 18th 8pm we have "The Secret Sussex Resistance Revisited". Stewart Angell started researching this subject in 1992 and spent four years gathering information and taking many photographs all over Sussex and beyond. This popular speaker returns to Cuckfield to continue presenting his research findings regarding the British Resistance in Sussex during the Second World War and, as promised, will include the Special Duties Section, accounting for the spying and radio communication aspects of this secret organization.

Please contact Ann Went on 01444 450982 for further details or to book place.

Forthcoming Events

Tuesday 28th September 2010

Mid Sussex in film - Images from the Archive
A talk by Alan Readman, in the Queens Hall.

Time: 2.30 pm