The history portal for Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England
Filmed in 2013 this video by Steve Edwards was inspired by a similar amateur film made by Paul Plumb 50 years earlier in 1962 – titled A River Runs Through Our Town.
That whole original 1962 film is not available as unfortunately an error in the Screen Archive South East seems to have clipped the original 90 minutes short by 18 minutes. However there is a recent copy of the clip ( at 9m18s) pasted below (ignore the non-original captions and music):
This 20 minute video explores some of the content on the website and demonstrates some of the features.
The Shoreham Cine and Miniature Camera Club was started in the late 1950’s by local retailer Paul Plumb. He gathered a group of friends & advertised in the local press to form the cine club. Paul had a shop in Shoreham & was very well known for his enthusiasm about life in general. The response he got was quite amazing, in the region of 60 people were interested in becoming members.
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During the First World War, the British Admiralty designed eight towers codenamed M-N that were to be built and positioned in the Straits of Dover to protect allied merchant shipping from German U-boats. Designed by civilian Guy Maunsell, the towers were to be linked together with steel nets and armed with two 4-inch guns with the idea of closing the English Channel to enemy ships.
Paul Plumb was a Shoreham resident and prolific amateur film maker.
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Compiled and coloured from his own collection of Joseph Ripley’s photographs of soldiers at Shoreham and Southwick during WW1 by local historian Neil De Ville ©2016