A lecture by Worthing Museum curator James Sainsbury on the town's photographic history from 1914 to 1960, part of the museum's Autumn Lectures.
James Sainsbury brings the second part of his photographic history of Worthing to the Richmond Room on Tuesday 24 November. It's the second of two talks on the subject, picking up where the first left off and running from 1914 through to 1960.
Working through the lens of the camera, Sainsbury looks at the homefront in both World Wars, the construction of the Pavilion, and the building of the town's suburbs. It's a long stretch of time to cover in one go, and the photographs let you see the town changing in a way a written history doesn't always manage. The focus is on the town as it was lived in, rather than just the big dates.
The talk is part of the museum's Autumn Lectures, a series of eight talks delivered by Sainsbury that also cover the prehistoric archaeology of Worthing and its wider area, the dawn of photography, and the town's development across the 19th and 20th centuries. This one sits in the middle of that, filling in the gap between the early days and the more recent past.
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It starts at 6:30pm and runs for 90 minutes. Tickets are from £10.75, with a £0.75 transaction fee on top.
