Friday, 13 September 2019

COUNTY COUNCIL CUTS- WILL YOUR HISTORY DISAPPEAR?



“Just five years after it was opened by the Queen and Prince Philip, with a great deal of publicity and high hopes for what was billed as the most eco-friendly local government building in Britain, The Keep at Falmer is facing a very uncertain future.
The Keep was the new £18 million repository designed to house the collections of East Sussex County Council’s Record Office , and its partners in this venture: the Brighton History Centre, the Mass Observation Archive held by Sussex University and the University’s own Special Collections Archive. Unfortunately, things started to go wrong even before the building opened.

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