Autumn Lectures: Photographic History of Worthing Part One: 1860-1914

Autumn Lectures: Photographic History of Worthing Part One: 1860-1914 runs at the Richmond Room in the Worthing Museum & Art Gallery on Tuesday 17 November, from 18:30 to 20:00. It's the first half of a two-part series that reconstructs the photographic history of the town through historical images, with each session devoted to a distinct period and showing dozens of photographs from Worthing's past.

This first part covers the years 1860 to 1914, so it's the Victorian and Edwardian eras — the town as it was before the First World War. The second part follows on from 1914 to 1960, taking the story through the mid-century. Between them, they span a century of the town's visual record, and the two sessions are designed to be watched as a pair rather than as stand-alone talks.

If you're into local history, it's a good way to see how the place changed over those decades. The focus is on the photographs themselves, and there are dozens of them on screen throughout the evening, so you'll spend the session looking at the town as it appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The lecture takes place in the Richmond Room at the Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, in the Civic Quarter. It runs on Tuesday 17 November from 18:30 to 20:00, and since it's part one of two, you'll want to keep the second date in mind if you're planning to follow the whole story through.