Reason for the development of the town as an early, easily dependable, accessible with topographically vantages.
Chalk:
The natural material that surrounds us. Mined for lime and shipped out via the funicular railway and along the river
River:
Heart of trade for the town, with easy access from Newhaven. Ship building and repairs were part of the towns history.
Tunnels:
Collective of systems that run under the town, from the castle out to the bottom of School Hill and beyond. In itself a research project, to discover where they are, if they could be used again and what information do we currently have on them
Industry:
Lewes grew because of the towns ability to distribute, creating great industry within the shipping and lime markets.
People:
The people of the town were well connected to that industry, knowing what the two was and did is an essential factor in ones sense of belonging and identity. As we forget and have little to bind us, our identify drifts and we have to create many subsets that focus increasingly upon individualism and less upon how the community operates.
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