Monday 10th November, 7.30pm.
The West Highland Railway - progress on the construction and re-opening for Easter 2009. Southern Electric Group,
Sussex Branch talk by Andrew Marshall. £2 visitors. Deall Room, Southwick Community Centre, Southwick. 01273 504791.

Amberley Working Museum's Moving Picture Show

Saturday 15th November & Sunday 16th November 2008, 11am till 5-30 pm.
Normal admission charge £6, reduced price for HIAS members £5, children also £5.

There will be two cinema screens showing classic films of the area:

Amberley Granada. Visitors will have a unique opportunity to view a selection of rare material made in or about Sussex and the South East of England dating from the very beginning of cinematography in the 1890s through to the nostalgic decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Flickering images from the early days will showcase the comedies and actuality films of the Brighton and Hove pioneers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the West Sussex work of the Walton-on-Thames film-maker, Cecil Hepworth. The Moving Picture Show will also include rare footage of the Home Front during the Second World War including training films made in the region for the Home Guard, ARP and Women's Land Army. Amateur films will show haunting images taken in the aftermath of air raids and exuberant scenes of the celebration of VE-Day.

Amberley Odeon. Cine film of buses, trolleybuses, steam trains and other transport films. Saturday afternoon will have a tram films special festure & it will be followed by a consultation meeting at 4 pm about establishing a tramway in the south of England, possibly at Amberley Working Museum.

More details from Amberley Working Museum, 01798 831370, www.amberleymuseum.co.uk

Sunday 16th November.
Vintage bus running day. Buses operating to and from Pool Valley Brighton. Bluebell Railway. 01825 720800.

Friday 21st November, 7.00pm.
A Railway Career around Polegate 1948-1998. A Polegate and Willingdon Local History Society talk by Patrick Harmer.
St John’s Church Hall, High Street, Willingdon. £2 visitors. 01323 485971.

Tuesday 25th November, 7.30pm.
Back from the brink - Rescuing Listed Buildings. Worthing Society talk by conservation architect Michael Rowan. £2 visitors.
Note: early arrival recommended as venue has restricted numbers.
Worthing Library Lecture Theatre. 01903 700325.

Wednesday 26th November, 7.30pm.
30 years of Brighton buses. Volk’s Electric Railway Association illustrated talk by John Bishop. £1.50 visitors.
West Blatchington Mill Barn, Holmes Avenue, Hove.
Booking advised through web site. www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk

Tuesday 2nd December, 7.30pm. 
Railway Development around Newhaven. A Newhaven Historical Society talk by our Chairman John Blackwell.
Hillcrest Centre, Hillcrest Road, Newhaven. 01273 515404.

20th – 24th December.
Victorian Christmas Special Trains. Booking essential. Bluebell Railway. 01825 720800.

Monday 12th January, 7.30pm.
Colonel Stephens - The Man and his Railways. A Southern Electric Group talk by our Chairman John Blackwell.
Deall Room, Southwick Community Centre, Southwick Street, a short walk north of Southwick railway station. 01273 504791.

Wednesday 14thJanuary, 7.00pm.
Uppark – phoenix from the ashes. Chichester Local History Society talk by Jeffrey Thomas. £2 non-members.
New Park Centre, New Park Road, Chichester. 01243 787592.

Thursday 15th January, 8.00pm.
Sawbones, Quacks or Inventive Surgeons. History of surgery with an array of replica surgical instruments.
Wivelsfield Historical Society talk by Lizze and Tony Gilks. Wivelsfield Village Hall. 01444 455243.

Saturday 24th January, 2.30pm.
Brighton’s Industrial Heritage. Brighton and Hove Archaeology Society Local History talk by Geoff Mead.
United Reformed Church Hall, Blatchington Road, Hove.
Voluntary contribution. www.brightonarch.org.uk.