Victorian Festival Packed into Two Days

EASTBOURNE Victorian Festival returns at the end of September, but with events compressed into two days rather than spread over a week as in past years.

Highlights will be a concert of patriotic music by the Festival Choir at the All Saints Chapel in Meads, the ever-popular traditional music hall at the Royal Hippodrome – at which Michael Kaye will be MC – and a Gilbert and Sullivan Pot Pourri to be staged at the Under Ground Theatre.

Guided tours by John Surtees of the town's historic corners, and of the Devonshire Park Theatre, and readings by the Dickens Society are among other highlights.

The Festival, organised by the Eastbourne Society, takes place on September 26 and 27, and full details are available in a four-page programme available for download here, and at various outlets around the town.