News and events
22 October 4pm Stanmer village: SPS AGM
29 October 11-3pm Stanmer village: Feed the Birds day-- make a feeder to take home
15 November: Council decision expected on footpath
3 December Tree week: 11am meet Lower Lodges ranger-led walk
12-3 Stanmer village -- festive fun and wreath-making
Church: currently in temporary use by Greek Orthodox church: Occasional events, see adverts
Museum: Winter opening: Thursdays 10-12 for volunteer work, open for groups by arrangement
Any photos, recollections or ancestors who were married or christened at Stanmer Church? Please email us
Stanmer Rural Costume Project
Stanmer Rural Costume Project needs your help!
If you have any photos, information, recollections or have any ancestors who were married or christened at Stanmer Church please email us (sps.sussex@gmail.com)
To look at:
- Clothes of everyday rural people;
- Their construction and wearing, including clothes from local materials using traditional skills
To develop:
- Displays including samples of processes, artefacts from the museum and/or information folders
- Activities for themed/family days
Areas for focus
1) Evidence Collecting
a. Contrast and compare photos from the Stanmer archive with fashion plates etc. of the time
b. Use photos as a source of clothes to make for dressing up
c. Collect memories of clothes and their making from people
d. Look at local census returns for those in textile/dress making trade
2) Particular rural garments e.g. the smock
Look at the construction, decoration, traditions and make reproductions for dressing up
3) Reproductions clothes of rural people though history for trying on
4) Construction of clothes - processes in making clothes particularly at home
5) Care of clothes: laundry, repair etc.
6) Can a garment be made from materials sourced and processed locally?