Seaford Museum and Heritage Society AGM Seaford Museum and Heritage Society held its Annual General Meeting at the Little Theatre on the evening of Friday, 23rd March. This was a quite a milestone event for the Museum as an updated constitution was approved and the old group of trustees was replaced by a new post of President filled by Mr Laurie Holland. Some key, long serving members of the committee are leaving for various reasons: Charles Painter has led the services team for many years and was also vicechairman. He is continuing with the services work but stepping down from the committee to reduce his workload. Hazel Henderson is in charge of sales with the full responsibility for the museum shop. She will also be continuing with this work but no longer wishes to have the extra work as a committee
member. Sue Sutton (pictured above) is not only leaving the committee but also leaving the Seaford area for family reasons. Sue has worked on compiling the vast archive of Seaford information for over 30 years. As the archivist, she has helped thousands of people in searches for information about past inhabitants, events, houses, etc. which they wanted for their family trees, buying a house or research for writing a book. The archives contain tens of thousands of entries on the museum data-bases, which are currently being upgraded to a more modern system and Sue has been playing a major role in defining this new design. She will be a great loss to the Museum as whenever there is a query, the usual action is “Ask Sue”. Although the committee is losing valuable, experienced members, evolution continues and already two new members have been accepted. Judith Marr is responsible for general housekeeping and has already made a difference in many of the displays. Paul Bowler has also been active for some time and will be stepping into the space on the committee for services. After the AGM matters were rapidly settled, members were entertained with music by Joy Lewis & Derrick Hughes accompanying poetry by Peter Martin read by Peter, his wife, Patricia Martin and Mandy Gordon. The narrator for the evening was Kevin Gordon.
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