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The Lewes Civic Society ( Run by volunteers ) 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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John Stenhouse (formerly Steinhaeuser) was the medical officer in Lewes and founded the sanatorium in 1905. He conducted valuable work in child mortality rates and specifically death from tuberculosis. He also served in WW I with the Sussex Yeomanry as a Surgeon-Captain and was a member of the R.C.S

02.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends of Lewes AGM, 22 April 2026, 19.00-21.00
Council Chamber, Lewes Town Hall (available to members on Zoom). Juliet Oxborrow of Lewes Climate Hub will present on measures to reduce the risk of further flooding in Lewes.
Lewes merchandise for sale.
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01.03.2026 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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27.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Record of tree species in Lewes - Google My Maps Map showing the location of at least one tree of each species that we have recorded, so far, in Lewes, East Sussex. Compiled by the Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, (Lewes Urban Arboretum project)...

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23.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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16.2.25 Lewes Urban Arboretum: tree planting - Google My Maps The green tree symbol shows where members of the Friends of Lewes Trees Committee have planted trees as part of the Lewes Urban Arboretum Project which began in 2014.

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23.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Members (and potential members) met for coffee and cake on Sat 24th January. Members of the Planning and Trees Committees were available to talk to as well as a presentation of FoL activities and achievements. FoL merchandise was also on sale.
You can join via our website:
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27.01.2026 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Upcoming event - Friends of Lewes Coffee morning

12.01.2026 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trees and Climate Change ( via Zoom)
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025, 19.30
Peter Thurman talks about how trees may ameliorate the effects of Climate Change and how humans can enable them to do this.
Free for members, £4 for non-members.
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#LewesUrbanArboretum
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24.11.2025 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trees and Climate Change ( via Zoom)
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025, 19.30
Peter Thurman talks about how trees may ameliorate the effects of Climate Change and how humans can enable them to do this.
Free for members, £4 for non-members.
friends-of-lewes.org.uk
#FriendsOfLewes
#LewesUrbanArboretum
#LoveLewes

20.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trees and Climate Change ( via Zoom)
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025, 19.30
Peter Thurman talks about how trees may ameliorate the effects of Climate Change and how humans can enable them to do this.
Free for members, £4 for non-members.
friends-of-lewes.org.uk
#FriendsOfLewes
#LewesUrbanArboretum
#LoveLewes

16.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trees and Climate Change ( via Zoom)
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025, 19.30
Peter Thurman talks about how trees may ameliorate the effects of Climate Change and how humans can enable them to do this.
Free for members, £4 for non-members.
friends-of-lewes.org.uk
#FriendsOfLewes
#LewesUrbanArboretum
#LoveLewes

09.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 communications.friendsoflewes@gmail.com

13.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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11.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14 September 2025.
4 Park Road. 1961 house with recent first-storey addition.
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11.09.2025 10:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Lamb House is home to an 18th century Chinese lacquer screen.
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11.09.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025.
War memorial chapel, organ music, bell ringing…
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www.lewesprioryschoolmemorialchapeltrust.org

10.09.2025 11:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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09.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Lewes Victoria Hospital

Lewes Victoria Hospital

Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Lewes Dispensary moved to this Queen Anne style building in 1909.
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08.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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04.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Friends Meeting House, Friars Walk

Friends Meeting House, Friars Walk

Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
See the original room for Quaker worship plus the sympathetic refurbishment.
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03.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th -14th September 2025.
Experience what happens in the Crown Court, with no obligation to stay!
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02.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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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27.08.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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26.08.2025 20:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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25.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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24.08.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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23.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th-14th September 2025.
Visit the world’s longest running photographic studio!
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23.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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21.08.2025 11:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Heritage Open Days Lewes, 12th - 14th September 2025
Visit places you normally can’t!
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20.08.2025 08:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0