Man’s blue velvet smoking hat, with gold embroidery. #Bexhill

"Grampus Visits Bexhill."
Bexhill Chronicle 11.10.1913.
#Bexhill #Sussex #Whale #History #1910s

Portsdown Lodge, Bexhill postcard sent 11.10.1974. #Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard #History #1970s

"The Hospital At Cooden Camp.
Group Of Red Cross Nurses.
Inside The Tennis Pavilion, Which Has Been Fitted Up As A Hospital."
Bexhill Observer 10.10.1914. It was Dr. Amsden who gave our Egyptology Collection, thanks to Kate Marsden.
#Cooden #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Hospital #History #1910s #Egyptology

"Devonshire Road Fire, Bexhill-On-Sea. Oct: 10th 1912. Vieler, Photo, Bexhill." Postcard 10.10.1912. #Bexhill #Sussex #Fire #History #1910s

You never know what you might spot when you look up! #Bexhill #WW2

Hootbot c.1980. Battery powered toy robot made by Tomy. He flaps his wings and tail, walks along and hoots. #Bexhill

"A Bexhill Belgian Family."
Bexhill Chronicle 9.10.1915.
#Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Refugee #History #1910s

"Jazz, Rock And Pop Weekend, 8th & 9th October, 1960."
#dlwp #Bexhill #Sussex #Music #History #1960s

"A Record Conger.
Caught by Mrs. H. L. Pugh on Tuesday."
Bexhill Observer 8.10.1910.
#Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s

This is a shot of our Winter Wartime model railway. It depicts #Bexhill at Christmastime 1940, during the heavy snowfall of that time.

"Special Spectacles for gas masks."
Bexhill Observer 8.10.1938.
#Bexhill #Sussex #WW2 #History #1930s #ThrowbackThursday

Henry Sargent measuring sunshine, Marina Arcade, Bexhill-on-Sea 8.10.1969. #Bexhill #Sussex #Sunshine #History #1960s #ThrowbackThursday

"Women On The Land" Bexhill Chronicle 7.10.1916. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #Farming #History #1910s

"The West Beach and Bexhill Kursaal." Postcard sent 7.10.1905. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Beach #Holiday #History #1900s

Paper dress. Paper clothes were short-lived fashion novelty garments from the 1960s made from disposable cellulose fabric and later, wood pulp mixed with synthetic fibres. #Bexhill #PaperDress

"We have much pleasure in stating that as a result of the appeal put forth on behalf of Earl De La Warr...that the residents should take 300 guinea season-tickets...to keep the Kursaal open throughout the winter, about 130 tickets have been disposed of..."
#Bexhill Chronicle 6.10.1900. #Kursaal

1878 dress worn by Winston Churchill when he was a boy. It was customary for a boy to wear a dress until he was 6 years old. It is on display in our costume gallery. #Bexhill #WinstonChurchill

"Bexhill. Sea Road." Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex postcard sent 6.10.1936. #Bexhill #Sussex #Street #History #1930s

"Beach Hut Case
Charge of Stealing Added
Man Sent To Prison."
Bexhill Observer 5.10.1935.
#Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Beach #BeachHut #Crime #History #1930s