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🌞 SUMMER 🌞
10 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE, BN3 1EH
THIS EVENT HAS ENDED AND WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
It may be repeated in Autumn
TEA LEAF TO TEA BAG: A history of tea, consumption and ritual
Saturday 13 June 10.30am-3.30pm
Includes wonderful 18/19c teapots, caddies, tea cups, saucers, mote spoons, Art Deco sugar bowl, and other items; tea tastings, tea, specialy baked biscuits - bring packed lunch for a fascinating day.
“Taking Tea” –a fascinating social history starting in 2737, illustrating the elaborate ritual and evolving industry that grew out of adding boiling water to tea leaves.A long tradition from China and the legend of the Emperor Shen Nong and a simple tea leaf, through to the pyramid-shaped ‘teapigs’ of today. Camellia Sinensis is an evergreen plant of the Camellia family and by using it to make a beverage a whole industry grew up, requiring special equipment such as silver kettles, teapots, cutlery, drinking vessels made of fine china - and sugar and cream, which also needed special tools and containers. Also, beautiful, polished tea tables. Tea was so expensive it had to be kept locked in a caddy. “Taking tea” became a pleasant afternoon ritual perfected by the seventh Duchess of Bedford, but it was a Portuguese priest who first gave an account of tea drinking in 1560. A fascinating afternoon.
Illustrated with fascinating images on powerpoint slideshow.
£25 via eventbrite (plus booking fee)-book early, places limited to 25
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tea-leaf-to-tea-bag-a-history-of-tea-the-rituals-that-surround-it-tickets-1985542799964?
The Town House is minutes away from the sea, and shops, cafes and restaurants in Western Road
🌞SUMMER COURSES🌞
Ending soon. Will restart Autumn
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Ad Ed Classes
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N.B. History courses may contain outdated attitudes, cultural depictions and language which cause offence today. They have to be viewed from an historic perspective. When discussing the content these views are not those of the tutor. If you feel you may be uncomfortable, please do not enrol.
MET courses taught at Pelham Street Brighton BN1 4FA
Any problems enrolling, please contact me.
Enrolment: 01273 667704 Admissions: admissions@gbmc.ac.uk
To be eligible for a 50% discount on courses you must meet the below criteria :
- Unemployed and in receipt of a means tested benefit
- You receive a state pension and the total of any other income (including salary and private pensions) is less than £952 per month or £1,534 as a couple.
- Employed and earning below £22,038 annual gross salary
☼ SUMMER 2026 ☼
Independently run by the tutor at The Church of the Holy Cross, Woodingdean (Brighton). Bus nos 2, 22 stop outside. Small car park back of hall.
Roaring Twenties to Thirties Depression - Interwar Britain (1918-1939)
We study the culture of “Live for today” in changing post-WWI Britain, including 1920s Shoreham's fun-loving “Bungalow Town” and its cinema industry. Although there was poverty and notorious razor gangs, 'thirties Brighton saw a new prosperity. Governments tried to tackle social and health problems. Large department stores, including Woolworths, offered respectable work for young women.New, leafy suburbs were offering the luxury of a £495 house with inside WC and a bathroom that could be secured with a down payment of £1 if the £25 deposit could be found. There was a wealth of wonderful literature and the joy of film.
Illustrated with books, slides, video
8 weeks Monday 10.30am-12.30pm Start 20 April (Tutor Sarah Tobias)
ENDING NEXT WEEK
Fee: £75 Cheque payable to "Ms S Tobias" stating your name, address, telephone and e-mail and title of course. Post or deliver: Ms S Tobias, C/o Fleur Butler, Church of the Holy Cross, Downsway, Woodingdean BN2 6ND & e-mail me to list you: SARAH.TOBIAS@gbmc.ac.uk. Fee can be paid in two halves.
Pelham Street, Brighton 
COURSES ENDED
The Three Fabulous A’s!-Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco (1850-1950)
Three new and exciting movements from the middle of the Victorian century to the middle of the Twentieth century.
Independently run by the tutor at The Church of the Holy Cross, Woodingdean (Brighton).
Bus nos 2, 22 stop outside. Small car park back of hall.
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The Golden Summer of the Edwardians (1900-1914)
6 weeks Wednesday 1-3pm Tutor Sarah Tobias Course Ended
Pelham Street, Brighton “Never had it so good” A World of Change-Post-War Britain 1945-1960
The fabulous ‘Fifties and swinging Sixties! After the drabness and depression of war we see a burst of colour and hope for a brighter future with Dior’s New Look, The Festival of Britain, modernity in homes, welfare reforms - and Rock ‘N Roll!
We study social and cultural changes that followed the upheavals of World War Two, including the need for housing and improvements in living and working conditions. This was a new post-war era of optimism – particularly with the wonderful 1951 morale-boosting South Bank Festival of Britain visited by millions. There were changes in fashion and new interest in cosmetics. Interiors became brighter with fun wallpaper, modern furniture and kitchens.
We see the effects of relationships due to how people had altered, which led to quite a few divorces. We also focus on women and the adjustments to their domestic, social and family life following the war.
Amid the social and political changes came the youth revolution; milk & coffee bars, dance halls & Bill Haley and The Comets. This period saw the introduction of new writers, social realism and the ‘angry young man’, e.g. Joe Lampton in Room at the Top.
"Go around the country and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in the history of this country." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan 1957
Illustrated with books, slides, film and documentary
6 weeks Mondays 3-5pm Start 11 May (Tutor Sarah Tobias)
Ref: MACL131E1A Fee £97 Discount available for those on benefit or pension.
Course ends next week
Enrol: https://www.brightonmet.ac.uk/courses/never-had-it-so-good-a-world-of-change-post-war-britain-1945-1965/
BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE, BN3 1EH
The Town House is minutes away from the sea, and shops, cafes and restaurants in Western Road
To come: "Death and Mourning", Restoration of the stables, History of Christmas, 2026, "Blessed Servants" exhibition 2027
📅Date for your Diary
The Grange Museum, The Green, Rottingdean, Brighton BN2 7HA
Mrs Beeton and Household Management
Wednesday 2nd September 1pm
Illustrated talk by Sarah Tobias
Mrs Beeton did a great deal in her short life. She was more than the author of the famous book which was not just a cookery book. It detailed everything a middle-class woman needed to know about managing her household and servants from finances to first-aid.
Donation of £3 recommended. No booking - first come basis, but numbers are limited.
Beautiful Grange Gardens cafe adjacent
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