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What's in our Reading Room today? Lots of info on what people were wearing in dance halls 1938-39 (SxMOA1/2/3/1/D), plus some ads for the January sales from December #1939
#MassObservation #1940s #WW2 #KensingtonHighStreet
Last three from our #ArchiveOfTheMonth! Elizabeth Sclater and her beloved horses Gladstone, Salisbury and Freia - not forgetting coachman Mathews - outside #Newick Park 1899, plus with husband Francis outside a summer house at #Gjende #Norway
#Victorians
What's on order in our Reading Room today? Glorious memorabilia from the Sports Stadium, #SSBrighton in West Street and its opening in June 1934. Diving and dancing - the perfect combination!
#Brighton
#1930s
C19th illustrations of sea creatures from 'Life Beneath the Waves', a description of the #Brighton Aquarium, published in 1871. Do you have childhood memories of a visit to the Aquarium? #HistoryBeginsAtHome #HBAHAnimals #Conservation #Seaside #Victorians
Good morning! Four more beautiful images from the early 1900s, thanks to army surgeon and amateur photographer Charles Owen
Plus a glimpse of how he did it!
#ArchiveOfTheWeek
#cyclamen #gardenia #roses
#flowerphotography #Edwardians
More stylish swimwear! This programme from our #archives marked the opening of the SS #Brighton in West St, 1934. At the time, it was the largest covered seawater #swimming pool in the world #HoB100 #HBAHFashion #LocalHistory @BeginsHistory @sportinghistory
We hold some beautiful old maps & plans illustrating the natural #environment in our archives. This one, of Sheffield Park, depicts the lake, deer park and wooded areas. From a book of maps by Edward Wakefield, 1816 (ACC 10528/1) #Archive30 #LocalHistory #EastSussex
Our latest Keeping Up is online! From protest in the Sussex Uni archive,images of Lewes Prison inmates from the 1900s, and physical evidence of the English Reformation, last week's journery in archives has been as eventful as ever! Read about it here: https://t.co/sELhm3XeCs
Another busy week at The Keep, with early photoshopped pics of #Brighton, a discovery of some Nazi propaganda, and the royal funeral of a Maharaja in Bexhill - all in our latest Keeping Up: https://t.co/fY4S41ecvT
#ExploreArchives
#Brighton's #Concorde2 as it was in 1888, the 'Shelter Hall' of Madeira Road, with the ornate lift to take you right in.
Part of the 'Sea frontages' archive held at #TheKeep (DB/D/43)
#MadeiraDrive