Family Fun Month - Lost Brighton Tour

Fancy expanding your historical knowledge this summer? Or want to give the kids an educational day out? All Inclusive History's Lost Brighton Tour offers fascinating insights into Brighton's past, giving information on buildings, the coastline, and how it became the popular seaside resort we know today!

There's plenty of additional dates and times added during the summer holidays, and they can accommodate especially the younger history enthusiasts. The A-Z of Brighton tour is perfect for children to make learning fun, with an interactive challenge along the way!

See the Lost Brighton Tours page of the Visit Brighton website for more information and details to contact the tour manager to plan your tour!

www.ellieellie.co.uk

How We Lived Then - Museum of Shops

How We Lived Then is a fantastic museum of shops and social history on the South Coast in Eastbourne!

With over 100,000 exhibits on four floors, this museum displays authentic old shops, room settings and other various displays which have been collected over the last 50 years by the owners! Ellie Ellie loves nostalgia and this is sure to appeal to anybody who enjoys a bit of history or seeing how things were done years ago!

Open every day, this is a great way to spend the afternoon. Both owners have been avid collectors since childhood and combined their collections when they got married to open the museum!

This year they are also celebrating being open 25 years! How brilliant!

Visit the museums website for more information, and go and have a browse around this treasure trove!

Ice Age Sussex - What's hiding in the Sussex hills?

Chilled to the Bone is a free event going on in Brighton Museum down in West Sussex- an archaeology hot spot. The event explores the effects of the ice age throughout Earth's history and the development of man kind as we know it, against the demise of the Neanderthals. Humans have only existed when there has been ice at the poles, so how will the disappearence of this ice affect our survival?

The exhibition also exposes the facsinating discoveries that were unearthed during the Victorian 'Great Bone Rush' where the very greatest explorers travelled throughout Europe on the quest for answers to the question of evolution- what they dicovered would rock the boat for creationists.

Chilled to the Bone specifically looks at the environment in Sussex throughout history- with it's rolling hills and cliffs providing an ulitmate hub for archaeological discoveries, with vital artifacts sandwiched wihin the land. 

The secrets of Brighton Marina

A little suprising I know, but the Marina holds a pretty big secret. Many of us locals have been in and out that car park more times than we could count, but right at the entrance is a stretch of cliff that dates back to 200,000 years. It isn't just your common or garden cliff, you won't see any crisp white chalk, instead you're met with a rather muddy appearance. This so called mud is actually a result of a land slide which fell into a valley 100 of thousands of years ago, preserving some rather exciting treasure. Hidden amongst it's layers are a weath of fossils and clues to evolution.

The cliffs at Brighton Marina are over 200,000 years old.

Off Brighton beach itself, bones and remains have been found belonging to Mammoths, whales, bison and our ancestors. Who'd of thought?

The exhibition makes for a great afternoon out and a fantasticly interesting visit for families. Packed with information about jaw dropping local discoveries and hidden secrets about our landscape!

If you'd like to know more information about Chilled to the Bone then give this a click. The exhibition runs until early 2014.