Eighteen months after its launch exhibition, the Midhurst in Living Memory project is giving the wider public an opportunity to catch up on how it is going.
The project, backed by a £26,900 Heritage Lottery grant, has so far collected well over 80 interviews and recorded the memories of more than 100 people.
And on October 11 and 12, at the Spread Eagle Hotel in South Street, an exhibition of photogra
phs is being held, inviting visitors to step back in time.
On both the Saturday and Sunday, the exhibition will be open from 11am and 5pm and the hotel is offering a special Step Back in Time menu with morning coffee and afternoon tea to match the occasion.
The Living Memory project is being run under the auspices of the Midhurst Society.
Co-ordinator Pat Bryant said the interviews and recorded memories together made an exciting kaleidoscope of life in Midhurst.
"We have gathered a wealth of information," she said.
"We have been told about the Half Moon School, the Cowdray Estate, farming, the war years and evacuees, the airfield at Ambersham, polo, trade in the town, the old cinema, the old grammar school and so much more.
"Interviews are happy occasions for both interviewer and interviewee, and as interviewers we all feel privileged to have heard so many stories.
"Nothing can capture the past more clearly than the accounts of the people who lived it."
The idea for next week's exhibition was prompted by a discussion with Midhurst photographer Michael Chevis, who suggested he could display photographs from his archive.
Edward James, general manager of the Spread Eagle, has made the Jacobean Room available for the weekend as the hotel's contribution to the project.
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