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WINCHELSEA’S SECRET GARDENS – Open 16th June 2018
WINCHELSEA MUSEUM NEW SEASON STARTS
The 2018 season at Winchelsea Museum starts on Tuesday 1st May and continues until 28th October
Tuesday to Saturday: 12 noon – 4pm
Sundays and Bank Holidays: 1:30 – 4:30pm.
Admission: Adults £1:50 (accompanied children free)
The Court Hall Museum contains displays and exhibits that illustrate the history of the ‘Antient Town of Winchelsea’. The museum is housed in a single large room on the first floor of the Court Hall, located in the High Street, which is one of the oldest buildings in the town. Exhibits include maps, models, pictures, seals, local pottery and items of daily life from the area.
Visit the Museum web pages for more information
NGS WINCHELSEA SPRING GARDEN OPENING
The Winchelsea open gardens season got off to a flying start on 14th April.
The sun finally shone and at long last it seemed okay to risk an afternoon out. Five hundred visitors turned up to see the six gardens that opened for the National Garden Scheme and almost £3,000 was raised for the NGS beneficiaries – mostly cancer nursing charities. Garden owners bemoaned the fact that several favourite plants were still refusing to show because of the spring chill but in fact there was plenty to admire. People were even seen eating ice cream, surely a first for 2018.
Teas this year were laid on by the Friends of the Conquest Hospital as part of their fundraising efforts for the MRI Scanner Appeal and £800 was raised for this good cause as well. Friends of the Ancient Monuments laid on a tour of the town’s famous medieval cellars in the morning and there was plenty to explore over and above the gardens themselves.
St Michael’s Hospice come to town on 1st May and the big NGS opening of the year will be on Saturday 16th June when eleven gardens will be on show. There will be cellar tours then as well, as there are on several weekends through the season. If you haven’t been on one yet, check out the dates at winchelsea.com. Money raised from the tours helps fund the maintenance of the town’s medieval gates and Court Hall. Click here to book a Cellar Tour
CINQUE PORTS – NEST OF PIRATES? 28th April
David Hopkins separates Cinque Ports myth from reality
WW1 LAST POST AT WAR MEMORIAL 19th April
WINCHELSEA SINGERS SPRING CONCERT 21st April
The Winchelsea Singers’ Spring Concert starts with highlights from ‘Elijah’ by Mendelssohn. The second half will be a variety of favourite choruses from operas by Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. The singers will also be joined by the much-loved soloists Grace Constable, Garry Marriott and Michael White. There will be a bar available. For further information please call Charlotte Beecroft on 01797 223159
Saturday 21st April at St Thomas’ Church, Winchelsea
at 7pm
Entrance by programme at the door – £12
GARDEN SOCIETY SPRING SHOW
MAYOR MAKING EASTER MONDAY 2018
WINCHELSEA OPEN GARDENS 14th April
The season starts this month when six Winchelsea Gardens open for the National Garden Scheme. The event takes place on Saturday 14th April 2018 and the gardens will be open from 1pm to 5.30pm. The money raised goes, as always, to the nursing charities that the NGS supports. This Spring, teas in the New Hall will be provided by the Friends of the Conquest Hospital and the money they raise will go to the hospital’s scanner appeal. Six gardens will be open: King’s Leap, Rye View, The Well House, Cleveland House, Cleveland Place and Periteau House.
On Tuesday 1st May, several of these gardens and some others will open for St Michael’s Hospice.
The main NGS opening of the summer comes on Saturday and Sunday 16th and 17th June.
Country Living are promising us an article in their June edition.
It was a record year for East Sussex NGS with over £160,000 raised from garden openings around the county in 2017.
GUY FAWKES & SCRATCH BAND 7th April
Winchelsea Guy Fawkes Society, are delighted to announce the return of local folk band ‘The Sea Road Scratch Band’
They will be playing again at the New Inn, on Saturday evening, 7th April between 6.30 and 8.30 pm.
This is a free social event, and all are welcome.
Hope to see you there.