Eastbourne buildings [23]
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Eastbourne buildings [23]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 5 May 2022
The garish design of the Towner Gallery is greatly at odds with its surroundings. Built in 2009, adjacent to the Congress Theatre, of reinforced concrete. The gallery houses the Towner collection of some 5,000 works of art by historic, modern and contemporary artists. Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort on the south coast of East Sussex, some 54 miles south of London and about 19 miles east of Brighton. Although there is evidence of settlement from the Stone Age onwards, Eastbourne remained an area of small rural settlements until the railway arrived in 1849. A resort, built "for gentlemen by gentlemen", was planned and the town's growth accelerated from a population of less than 4,000 in 1851 to nearly 35,000 by 1891. Tourism is a large and important part of the economy of the town.
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