Tickets for this event are now sold out. You are welcome to try to buy a ticket at the door if we have any no-shows, but we cannot guarantee a space.

Ghost Stories, with Rob Slater

Robert has been running ghost walks in Pevensey for the last 36 years and also Lewes, Alfriston and other Sussex locations, published 13 books, many on local history. Sussex has a rich history of ghosts through spectral dogs, smugglers, white ladies, monks, battles, poltergeists, railways and at least one ghost you would never want to see as catching sight of it means you are doomed. As the nights

By Robert Slater

Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories, with Rob Slater @ Bridge Cottage

Tickets for this event are now sold out. You are welcome to try to buy a ticket at the door if we have any no-shows, but we cannot guarantee a space.

Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

“This show is like a well-crafted aerial firework display, with its interweaving strands & colours culminating in three mighty detonations.”

Passages  is a solo performance which weaves together history, folklore, and music, combining the tales of three sea voyages. Stories of wrecks, rescues and migration. Stories which show the wild elements and human spirit at their best, worst and most beautiful.  Come for an evening of storytelling and songs and be transported. Three by three. Triùir is triùir. The third knot. The third wave. The 

Simon Stallard Concert 'Passages' at Bridge Cottage

Simon Stallard Concert 'Passages' at Bridge Cottage @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

“This show is like a well-crafted aerial firework display, with its interweaving strands & colours culminating in three mighty detonations.”

This talk explores the amazing story of smuggling in 18th and 19th-century Britain, when an increase in taxes led to an explosion of illegally imported contraband, characterised by opportunism, violence and deception Accessibility information We aim to make our events as accessible as possible within the constraints of our listed building. We provide hearing loops and an accessible toilet. We offe

By Mark Lewis

Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways

Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

The WW1 'Christmas Truce' has become legendary. But for most on active service, it was a rumour from somewhere else. Instead of the 'Truce', this talk looks at some forgotten incidents and most men's real experience of Christmas at the front. A Royal Gift Box, food and drink in the trenches, 'Gunfire Tea' served by the officers. The first aerial bombs, the challenge of snow and a great, criminal g

With Andy Stuart

Christmas At The Front: What Was It Really Like?

Christmas At The Front: What Was It Really Like? @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

To many of us, holiday history is linked to our childhood memories of a coastal visit, whether it is of a caravan on a windswept clifftop, a B&B in a large resort or a posh hotel on a glittering seafront. Somewhere in that memory comes a stroll on a pier, a battle with a deckchair or a round of golf [9 holes or Crazy], a charabanc trip or a paddle steamer along the coast. This talk looks at how th

With Dr Geoffrey Mead

Resorting To The Coast- Aspects Of Holiday History

Resorting To The Coast- Aspects Of Holiday History @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

With Dr Geoffrey Mead

Polegate Windmill is a Grade II* listed tower mill on the boundary between Polegate and Willingdon, East Sussex. The mill was built in 1817 and was worked by wind until 1943. It was then worked by an auxiliary engine, later an electric motor, until 1965. By the time the mill stopped working, it was becoming derelict. Eastbourne and District Preservation Trust was established for the specific purpo

With Adrian Backshall

Polgate Windmill

Polgate Windmill @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

With Adrian Backshall

Previously, David was Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex, and prior to this Director of Archaeology South-East which is part of University College London. David started work in Sussex in 1980 having completed an MA in Roman Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, London. David has directed a wide range of fieldwork on sites of var

By David Rudling

Religion and Disposal of the Dead in Roman Sussex

Religion and Disposal of the Dead in Roman Sussex @ Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

Bridge Cottage Heritage Centre, Uckfield

What's on

Ghost Stories · By Robert Slater

Simon Stallard Concert 'Passages' at Bridge Cottage · “This show is like a well-crafted aerial firework display, with its interweaving strands…

Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways · By Mark Lewis

Christmas At The Front: What Was It Really Like? · With Andy Stuart

Resorting To The Coast- Aspects Of Holiday History · With Dr Geoffrey Mead

Polgate Windmill · With Adrian Backshall

Religion and Disposal of the Dead in Roman Sussex · By David Rudling