Oh we do like to be beside the seaside . . .

EASTBOURNE’S spring beer festival, Beer and Cider by the Sea, serves up more than 100 real ales, a wide variety of ciders and perries, and an abundance of cocktails and wine along with great entertainment from live bands.

Back for a fifth year the festival (May 26-28) celebrates Eastbourne’s great position as a seaside town just minutes from two award-winning breweries, the home of the National Cider and Perry Collection, and many vineyards dotted across the Sussex countryside.

Half of the real cask ales on offer will be provided by local breweries.

www.VisitEastbourne.com

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Eastbourne celebrates seaside nostalgia

#SUMMER holidays in the UK’s sunniest place are being celebrated by Heritage #Eastbourne in a free ‘Vintage Summer Holidays’ exhibition at the Redoubt Fortress, Open until September 5, it illustrates the resort’s journey from a Victorian seaside ‘tennis town’ to a 1970’s mass market seaside town.

From arts and crafts, seaside holiday history, and Lewis Carroll’s holidays in Eastbourne to archive film footage of Eastbourne holidays from yesteryear, the exhibition celebrates the town’s reputation as a bustling seaside resort.

Visitors will discover what brought holiday-makers to Eastbourne from as early as the 1870’s, when health vacations and sporting breaks were popular, through to the 1900’s when people travelled from far and wide to spend lazy summer holidays on the beach.

Children can get hands-on by making postcards and holiday memorabilia, while parents can relax in the parade ground with a coffee from the vintage Outpost café.

There’s a photo-booth section in which visitors can put on a sunhat and a moustache, pose in a deckchair and re-create a vintage photograph from a past holiday, and visitors can read the diary of a young Victorian girl holidaying in 1873 and discover what family holidays were like in 19th century Eastbourne.

The exhibition is open daily, 10am-5pm.

www.EastbourneMuseums.co.uk

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Beer and cider by the sea

EASTBOURNE’S spring beer festival, Beer and Cider by the Sea, serves up more than 60 real ales, a wide variety of ciders and perries, and an abundance of cocktails and wine. 

Back for a fourth year the festival (May 27-29) celebrates Eastbourne’s great position as a seaside town just minutes from two award-winning breweries, the home of the National Cider and Perry Collection, and many vineyards dotted across the Sussex countryside. The event is fully undercover.

Half of the real cask ales on offer will be provided by local breweries.

Tickets can be booked at www.EastbourneTheatres.co.uk, and for more information, go to www.VisitEastbourne.com

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Vintage Eastbourne

#EASTBOURNE’S vintage motoring festival, #MagnificentMotors, returns to the coastal town’s Victorian seafront from April 30 to May 1.

Exhibits will include a 1968 Ford Mustang, a 1928 Rover Open Tourer, and a 1902 Manley steam carriage, the oldest exhibit confirmed at the festival so far. The well-established festival on Eastbourne’s coast at the Western Lawns, typically draws in more than over 500 motors.

There will be vintage chauffeur-driven tours of the South Downs, and a four-day vintage market (April 29-May 2).

Later in the year, from July 23 to September 5, the Redoubt’s free Eastbourne Seaside Holiday exhibition takes visitors on a nostalgic journey exploring Eastbourne’s transition from Victorian seaside ‘tennis town’ to a thriving 1970’s seaside resort.

www.VisitEastbourne.com/magnificent-motors
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Christmas in … Eastbourne

THIS December will see #Eastbourne in Sussex celebrating its 700th #Christmas by turning the Town Hall’s Grade II listed clock tower into a ‘Neon Noel’ historical luminale show.

The first projection of its kind on the south coast entails a light and audio show being projected onto the tower every evening from December 4 through to the 13th.

And Eastbourne’s bandstand will be home to a traditional Christmas market (December 9-13), where shoppers can buy hand-crafted festive gifts.

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Coming up in Eastbourne …

EASTBOURNE’S family-friendly bonfire procession returns this autumn (October 3) for an evening of traditional English folk celebrations.

The procession starts at 7.30pm and culminates with the bonfire lighting between the bandstand and Wish Tower, fire juggling, and a firework display on the beach.

THE town’s annual three-day beer festival, now in its 13th year, opens at the Winter Garden on October 8.

Visitors can taste real cask ales on tap from a range of more than 160, all selected for the festival by local CAMRA members. There will also be bars serving wine, cider, and international bottled beers.

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