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Description: | The Museum is developing significant collections relating to well-known local people, in particular items associated with the invention of television in the town in 1923 by John Logie Baird. The writer, Robert Tressell who based his book "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" on life in Edwardian Hastings is also represented by the archive of his biographer, Fred Ball. There is an important collection of over 100 architectural drawings and family ephemera relating to James and Decimus Burton, the architects of St Leonards. A special gallery is devoted to a growing number of exhibits that relate to the Hastings born conservationist and quasi American Indian, Grey Owl. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Johns Place
Bohemia Road
Hastings,
TN34 1ET | FAX: | 01424 781165 | Telephone: | 01424 781155 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4769 | Go to resource |
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