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The festive season is in full swing at The Beachy Head Story with a pop-up Christmas exhibition, creative workshops and children’s activities during the seasonal holidays.

One of the highlights of the programme of events at the venue in Beachy Head Road is a pop-up Christmas exhibition featuring festive objects from Eastbourne’s past.

The Christmas display is now open and among the artefacts is a 1937 menu from the Grand Hotel; a collection of Victorian Christmas cards sent to Eastbourne residents; a programme for a Grand Christmas Eve Concert with Eastbourne Girls’ Choir and Eastbourne Silver Band at the Winter Garden in 1961; a small Christmas card sent to a cook at Summerdown Camp in 1918 and a Queen’s Hotel Christmas Day menu from 1949.

Younger members of the family can get creative and join in the festive fun making a Pom Pom Snowman at a session on Tuesday 19 December from 10.30am-12.30pm. There will also be a chance to explore wintry tales in the exhibition. The session is suitable for children aged five and over and costs £2.50 per child.

The festive season is in full swing at The Beachy Head Story with a pop-up Christmas exhibition, creative workshops and children’s activities during the seasonal holidays. Picture; Visit Eastbourne

The last workshop in The Beachy Head Story’s Creative Writing series will be held on Monday 11 December from 10.30am-12.15pm.

The theme for the workshop - with Writer in Residence Annalie Seaman - is The Experience of Landscape and participants will be looking at the Beachy Head landscape and seascape through a sense-of-place perspective.

The workshop will ask how we experience landscape and what it means to belong in a land as well as exploring the notion of home and ask how it applies to us. The session is £8 and can be booked at https://heritageeastbourne.onlineticketseller.com/

Festive family fun on the way this Christmas at The Beachy Head Story