News
28.05.08
Get Out in the Gap
What is the link between water voles, adders, bats, wildflowers, flint knapping, the Bishop’s Palace and Neolithic heritage? They are all themes of fantastic free events and talks running this summer in and around the Medway Gap organised by the Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme. All events and talks are being led by a host of local experts and organisations including Kent Wildlife Trust, Plantlife, Medway Valley Countryside Partnership and local historical societies.
27.05.08
POP IDLE? GIVE HIM SOMETHING SPECIAL TO DO ON FATHERS DAY!
Countryside activities and fun for all the family: Sunday 15 June 2008, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Give dad a special treat this Fathers Day Sunday 15th June, with a day of excitement, challenge, activity and family fun at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester. England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional rural life is planning an event packed with unusual and traditional rural activities for dad, and the rest of the family, to discover and enjoy.
14.05.08
Last chance for Kent’s rare woodland butterflies & moths...
Volunteers are out this week looking for some of Britain’s rarest butterflies and moths, as Butterfly Conservation launches a three-year campaign to transform South East England’s dark, overgrown woodlands into lighter, sunnier places full of butterflies.
Duke of Burgundy, photo by Steve McCarthy
13.05.08
THE RETURN OF THE MARKET HALL
Market Hall miniature returns home from museum of historic buildings
A beautiful scale model of a Hampshire village’s historic market hall has been presented to the village by the Museum which saved the original building over 35 years ago. Titchfield’s 17th century market hall was rescued by the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, in 1971 after the extensive restoration work required to save it proved impossible to carry out on its original site in the village. The Museum carefully dismantled, restored and re-erected the Hall on its beautiful downland site, which is home to over 45 rescued historic buildings from across south east England.
06.05.08
Rural crafts Take ten
A film-based exhibition looking at ten individual craftspeople working in the countryside today
11 March to 22 June 2008
For more than 50 years MERL has been recording and collecting rural crafts. In a recent update, the Museum has been making films of ten craftspeople to relate its collections to the contemporary countryside. This exhibition is about the project and about rural craftsmanship today...
05.05.08
POP IDLE? GIVE HIM SOMETHING SPECIAL TO DO ON FATHERS DAY!
Give dad a special treat this Fathers Day Sunday 15th June, with a day of excitement, challenge, activity and family fun at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex. England’s leading museum of historic buildings and traditional rural life is planning an event packed with unusual and traditional rural activities for dad, and the rest of the family, to discover and enjoy.
04.05.08
Sussex Food and Farming: Food Fair
Sun 4 – Mon 5 May
A wonderful choice of quality fare to sample and buy from the local producers of the south east, plus tastings, cookery classes, demonstrations and children’s activities. And new for 2008, to reflect ‘The Year of Food and Farming’ a celebration of downland farming. In Association with A Taste of Sussex.
