Lindsey Tydeman

Hove was definitely the place to be in June 1953! Looking at the coronation guide produced by the council, one can't help being impressed by the effort which must have gone into the ideas and organisation...

With the word jubilee having prominence again this year, Lindsey Tydeman has been delving into the records at The Keep and looking back at 1977, the year of the street party, home-made decorations, planning committees, and communities coming together for the Silver Jubilee...

The wonderful etching 'Party on the Beach' and its accompanying text tell the story of, 'the most extraodinary wreck that ever happened on any part of the coasts of this Kingdom'.

In years past summer carnivals were a highlight of the season, parading through streets packed with inquisitive spectators, as Lindsey Tydeman from The Keep explains, looking back to the Hastings Carnival of 1962...

It's March 1941, just one of the many days during World War II when the coastal town of Eastbourne was hit by the German bombers...

This photograph gives us a peep into the workshop of Thomas Smith Trugs Ltd, in Herstmonceux, some time in the late 1980s.

As the Battle of Britain raged overhead, in the fields of Sussex below an army of young ladies was being enrolled to learn the basics of agriculture and animal husbandry, to provide a new rural workforce as Lindsey Tydeman from The Keep explains...

This wonderful photograph from 1937 shows workers at the start of the hop season.

“Wandering at large”, “wandering abroad”, “wandering abroad and not being able to give a good account of himself”, “wandering in a state of vagrancy”; do any of these offences sound familiar?