A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

The Green Huts - a brief history

A 1919 notice in 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, being trained before heading to the front lines, including, most notably, young volunteers travelling 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 of 2024 the doors were re-opened for a new chapter; 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.

The project that emerged, A Place for Everything drew significant inspiration from 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 explore facets of the project that were woven into events during the year.