Welcome to the Front Door Histories digital map of Lymington and Pennington. This is a collaborative project between SPUD and the Volunteers at St Barbe Art Gallery and Museum. We set out to collect photographs of the Post-War history of the Town as it grew and changed, documented by its inhabitants. There is something fascinating about collecting the recent past, it is part memory and part record. The front door was chosen as the point of transition between our private and public lives. This was an important demarcation in the past and was a place we documented our day to day far more than we perhaps do now. The front door also gives us something static to observe change from. An archive is not just a collection; it is pointed and questioning and needs you to interpret its ideas. This archive is an invitation for you to explore its possibilities, find something that excites you and trace it back and across Lymington and Pennington. 

 

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(Map only accessible via desktop computer - does not support mobile devices.)