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THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF EASTBOURNE INC. HSE is a registered incorporated society, set up in 1982 to foster interest in local history. Our motto is ‘Preserving our Past, and Telling our Stories’. As a Society we have won several community and regional awards for our work. Here are some of the major projects we’ve undertaken in recent years: Creating the Eastbourne Heritage Trail, from Bishop Park to the Wahine Memorial at Korohiwa. Creating new signage for Greenwood Park in south Muritai. Campaigning (unsuccessfully, alas) to save the former caretaker’s cottage in Williams Park, which was built in the 1890s. The successful ‘rescue’ and planned restorationRead More →

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A request from the Historical Society of Eastbourne: We’re currently working on a digital photo sequence to be screened at the Eastern Bays Community Resilience Expo on 24th March, depicting extreme weather events, bushfires and other natural disasters that have affected the Eastern Bays in past decades. In our archive collection we have many historical photos of such events, but we’d like to include more recent images as well, covering the last 25 years – especially of storms, flooding and slips, and the damage they’ve caused. So if you have any digital photos that would fit the bill, and wouldn’t mind sharing them, Ali Carew would be very grateful! Please emailRead More →

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The world premiere of an audio-visual production featuring Katherine Mansfield’s story “At the Bay” was screened on 2 July at Wellesley College, Days Bay, as part of a commemoration of the death a century ago of one of our best-known writers. Videos of the full production, preludes, plus readings from “The Doll’s House” and “Prelude” are available online.Read More →

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The full August 2022 newsletter (with images) is available as a pdf file download (400K) – below are introductions to the complete articles you can read when you get the full newsletter. A very Wellington story… A while ago we came across a delightful children’s book, The Little Cloud, published in 2017 by Mākaro Press. The story had been written in 1959 by Beverley Burch (later Longmore) and illustrated by local artist Elspeth Nicol. At the time they were both kindergarten teachers, and became lifelong friends… Oral history interviews on Access Radio Many of you have told us how much you enjoyed this series. JohnRead More →

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‘Preserving our past, and telling our stories’ About HSE– our origins, projects and activities Newsletters The Historical Society publishes regular newsletters which can be downloaded as pdf files. April 2025 July 2023 August 2022 Events & Exhibitions Picture Perfect – @Hutt Arts Society (7-17 May) Katherine Mansfield Centennial productions Videos from the Centenary productions, including the full premiere evening and readings from “The Dolls House” and “Prelude“. Contact details Our rooms upstairs are open to the public (upstairs at the library, 38 Rimu Street, Eastbourne.on Monday afternoons, 2-4, or by appointment. President: Dennis Davidson Vice-President (& newsletter editor) Ali Carew, alicarewnz@gmail.com (ph 562-8880)  or dropRead More →