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Horsham’s Women of History – town’s first woman GP

For our latest Women’s History Month subject we have Horsham’s first woman doctor who worked up to the age of 75! Dr Alice Owen’s career, however, did not begin in the medical profession and she was not local to Sussex. Dr Alice Owen. Photo courtesy of West Sussex County Times. She was a schoolteacher whoContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s Women of History – town’s first woman GP”

Horsham’s Women of History – a formidable councillor

It’s Women’s History month and the second local personality we are focusing on was the first woman to be a member of Horsham Urban Council who gave the town its Garden of Remembrance. Nellie Vesta Laughton (nee Booker) died in January 1953, aged 86, in her home in Brighton Road. Nellie Laughton, President of EastContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s Women of History – a formidable councillor”

Horsham’s Women of History

It’s Women’s History Month! Every year there’s a different theme and this year it’s Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations. Over the next four weeks we have a quartet of Horsham women for whom that theme was incredibly relevant! Dorothea Hurst This week we focus on a woman who belonged to an influentialContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s Women of History”

Horsham Museum Dinosaur exhibition – behind the scenes

The new exhibition – Cretaceous Horsham: Discovering Dinosaurs – is proving very popular at Horsham Museum & Art Gallery! Assistant Curator George Graham-Payne, who brought the exhibition together, chats to Museum Society Trustee Steve Payne (no relation) about the behind the scenes work involved. George Graham-Payne, Assistant Curator, at the exhbition. How far ahead do youContinueContinue reading “Horsham Museum Dinosaur exhibition – behind the scenes”

History of two Horsham Libraries – slideshow

https://youtu.be/uLjB68HlPSA A recent social media post that Horsham Museum & Art Gallery put up proved very popular! It was of the old town library that stood in North Street for many years. The former library in North Street. It was the first county-run public library, built in 1956, on the site of a couple ofContinueContinue reading “History of two Horsham Libraries – slideshow”