A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

The Green Huts - a brief history

A small notice ad in a 1919 edition of the Sussex Express listed a former WW1 tin tabernacle chapel building with approximately 1000 chairs for auction. Sited in a Seaford field, the building was camp chapel for new recruits, training before heading into combat. notably, amongst the service men passing through Seaford were young volunteers arriving from the Caribbean to form the British West Indian Regiment.

Sold and dismantled it made its way to Lewes by train, becoming part of the weekly cattle market and then weekly auction rooms for Julian Dawson and Gorringes. In 2016 sold for development, the huts were cleared - though not quite of everything - and the doors closed.

In March 2024 the doors of the derelict buildings were re-opened for a final chapter; Here are some first impressions on entering……..

In the months that followed, photographers, painters, a film maker and sound artist all visited to record impressions of this unique site.

One central project that emerged, A Place for Everything re- imagined the participatory archaeology of Mark Dion’s Thames Dig by responding to the site’s live and layered ‘archaeological’ qualities, creating opportunities for young and old to participate together in a hands on exploration of the huts, their contents and surrounding site.

click on the link below to find out more about A Place for Everything, as well as other projects and events that took place during the year.