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Christmas Past at Preston Manor

Tuesdays 26 November, 3 & 10 December
10.30am–1.30pm (includes tea break)
£15, members £12, book in advance 

Get your post-Downton fix from Preston Manor, a charming historic house on the outskirts of Brighton & Hove. Decorated and furnished in Edwardian style with elegant ‘upstairs’ reception rooms and bedrooms and ‘downstairs’ kitchens and servants’ rooms.

Three lectures explore how Preston Manor’s previous inhabitants might have celebrated Christmas.

26 November – Regency and Georgian
3 December – Victorian and Edwardian
10 December – Wartime home front and 20th century

For more information call 03000 290902 or visit http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk
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Murder in the Manor

A group of young writers have worked together at Brighton’s Preston Manor to create a beautiful piece of digital fiction entitled Murder in the Manor.

Earlier this year, the Royal Pavilion & Museums invited eleven young writers from Brighton & Hove’s Little Green Pig creative writing group to Preston Manor. The writers, all aged between 12 and 16, created a fictional murder mystery, inspired by the house and its contents.
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