The Friends Committee is delighted to announce that our next talk will be by noted speaker Pete Allen who will reveal the history of pantomime on Wednesday December 6. Pete Allen What is it about Pantomime that attracts us to this strange concoction of fairy tales, dance jokes, songs and cross-dressing? And what is itContinueContinue reading “Oh yes it is! Our next talk is about panto!”
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Thomas Honywood – Horsham’s forgotten hero?
https://youtu.be/dPjB3u7DdZs Ask most people in Horsham ‘who was Thomas Honywood?’ and very few will have heard of him! Yet this extraordinary man introduced photography to Horsham and even created a new photographic process. In his role as an archaeologist, he also discovered the historic Horsham Hoard and was Captain of the Horsham Volunteer Fire Brigade.ContinueContinue reading “Thomas Honywood – Horsham’s forgotten hero?”
Autumn colour in Museum garden – slideshow
The Museum garden in autumn
Three easy ways to help Horsham Museum
Easy ways to help the Museum
Horsham’s historic hailstones
Just some of the hailstones (and by no means the biggest) that fell. Photo courtesy West Sussex County Times The Great Storm of 1987 is remembered for its ferocity, but what about the ‘awful and magnificent storm’ of September 5 1958? That one made Horsham famous as the town still holds the record for theContinueContinue reading “Horsham’s historic hailstones”
Friends of Horsham Museum & Art Gallery 