A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

The Green Huts - a brief history

A 1919 auction notice in the Sussex Express describes a former WW1 chapel building with approximately 1000 chairs. The tin tabernacle, had been situated in a Seaford field, as camp chapel for new recruits, on their way 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; Some first impressions on entering……..

In the months that followed, photographers, a film maker, painters and sound artist had a chance to visit and capture impressions of this unique site.

The project that emerged, A Place for Everything drew inspiration from Mark Dion’s Thames Dig by responding to the site’s ‘archaeological’ qualities, encouraging young and old in a hands on exploration of the huts, their contents and surrounding land.

click on the link below to find out more about the project, and how it was woven into events during the year.