FROM THE FIELD TO THE
FOUNDRY
A Journey with Magic Lantern &
Concertinas
Friday 12th. September Doors
open 7.30 p.m.
Licensed bar with Harveys
beer
Foundry Gallery, Old Market Lane Garage, 32 North
Street,
Lewes BN7 2PH
Images,
traditional songs and readings about life on the land in Sussex at the time
the Phoenix Foundry opened in 1832 and the changes it brought to working
people's lives.
Images from Alan and Rene Marriott's Magic
Lantern,
the
Victorian ancestor of the slide projector.
Music from the Spare
Parts Concertina Band.
The
concertina was invented in 1830 by Sir Charles
Wheatstone.
Tickets £6/£5 available
on the door or from Laportes (Friars Walk)
and Lewes Tourist
Information Office.
The Lewes
Phoenix Project
Lewes’ celebrated Phoenix Ironworks will rise again – at least
through the recorded memories, Photographs and artefacts of local
people, thanks to the Lewes Phoenix project which has recently been
awarded a generous grant by the Heritage Lottery
Fund.
The Lewes
Phoenix project is the brainchild of Artemis Arts Ltd who are working
with the community – from schoolchildren to elderly residents – to capture the
stories and images of the former iron foundry, the site of which is at the
centre of plans for a major town centre redevelopment. Volunteers and
contributors are encouraged to get in touch and find out how they can take
part.
The railings
of St Paul’s Cathedral and girders for the piers at Brighton, Eastbourne and
Hastings, many lamp posts in Sussex streets, along with oven doors and soot
boxes for local homes were manufactured at the ironworks which for much of the
19th century was the largest employer in the town of Lewes.
The ‘Lewes
Phoenix ‘ project will be launched by Artemis Arts during Artwave –its
theme is ‘Lewes, Now & Then’. A collaboration with clubs , youth
organisations, artists, dancers, musicians, writers and historians
who will celebrate local creativity from 1832 to the present day.
The Foundry
was established in 1832 - a time when large numbers of local people were
moving from the land to towns and cities. The theme of town and country, from
the early nineteenth century to the present will be echoed in a series of
events, held in the old foundry buildings .