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The Friends of Lewes
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The Lewes Civic Society Our mission is to conserve and enhance the key aspects of the town – its history, distinctive buildings and the natural environment. https://friends-of-lewes.org.uk
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · 2d
Volunteers needed to help with the Friends of Lewes Floods Exhibition.
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th October at Fitzroy House, Lewes.
Friday 31st October and Saturday 1st Nov at the Town Hall, Lewes.
Please email [email protected]
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 11
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th – 14th September 2025.
Places on the tour of the oldest independent brewery in Sussex were snapped up instantly!
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 11
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14 September 2025.
4 Park Road. 1961 house with recent first-storey addition.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 11
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Lamb House is home to an 18th century Chinese lacquer screen.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 10
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025.
War memorial chapel, organ music, bell ringing…
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 9
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
The 17th century clock is in excellent working order – but St Thomas à Becket Church is even older.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 8
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Lewes Dispensary moved to this Queen Anne style building in 1909.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 4
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025.
The current theatre was converted from a chapel in the late 1930s with the support of John Maynard Keynes.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 3
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
See the original room for Quaker worship plus the sympathetic refurbishment.
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Friends Meeting House, Friars Walk
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Sep 2
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th -14th September 2025.
Experience what happens in the Crown Court, with no obligation to stay!
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 27
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
At W F Bruce you’ll be able to visit the historic basement workshop.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 26
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Jireh Chapel has galleries with corner staircases, a plastered vault ceiling, an octagonal pulpit, and pine box-pews. Well worth a visit!
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 25
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Eastgate Baptist Church has a helical tower staircase (that spirals in two directions) as well as a sunken baptistry.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 24
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
A rare opportunity to tour the Hugh Rae building, one of the oldest in Lewes.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 23
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Bull House was once lived in by Thomas Paine.
Catch one of the talks on the building’s history.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 23
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Visit the world’s longest running photographic studio!
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 21
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
The Round House, briefly owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, is round because it was converted from a corn windmill.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 20
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025
Visit places you normally can’t!
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 19
Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025.
The Georgian façade of Trinity House hides an early 17th-century timber-framed building, home of the local commander in the Civil War.
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 14
What's happening to our Tourist Information Centre? Read the letter from The Friends of Lewes: friends-of-lewes.org.uk/2025/08/10/l...

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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Aug 1
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Looking forward to Heritage Open Days 2025
Wed 20th August 2025 at 7.30 pm / Town Hall Lecture Room (entrance in Fisher Street) plus ZOOM ONLINE. A preview of the programme by Marcus Taylor for the 2025 Heritage Open Days weekend in Lewes (…
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · May 30
SDNP/25/01871/FUL: The Lidl Planning Application on Land East of Brooks Road friends-of-lewes.org.uk/2025/05/30/s...
SDNP/25/01871/FUL: The Lidl Planning Application on Land East of Brooks Road
FRIENDS OF LEWES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING ON 28th MAY 2025Download
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · May 23
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The Friends of Lewes @friendsoflewes.bsky.social · Apr 7
Ham Lane Sewage discharges
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Ham Lane Sewage discharges
BBC South East have picked up on Friends of Lewes concerns over discharges of untreated Sewage into the river Ouse at Lewes and our call for an embargo on Housebuilding until the infrastructure is …
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