Eastbourne's New Towner Gallery is now famous as a Modern Art Gallery throughout the UK. Rumour has it that it is considered one of the best in England. The modernistic structure has been subject to lots of criticism from local residents and the contents of the building have been similarly received. While the upstart continues to go from strength to strength, the old gallery in Gildredge Park, one of the finest Georgian buildings in the South East, is falling into a sad state of disrepair. Ivy now chokes the hedges and the weeds have taken over the garden where I once watched an outdoor production of Hay Fever. The main gallery building, where the works of Eric Ravilious once hung, is now covered in scaffold, graffiti and tarpaulin. The state of the building is now so bad that it has been put on the At Risk register. What a sad end to a once vibrant community building
An estate agent's notice now seeks a builder to convert this beautiful building to flats. Flats, flats, more flats. Why can we not use it for something that we can all enjoy ?
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