{"id":3867,"date":"2016-10-31T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:05:01","slug":"land-settlement-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/land-settlement-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Settlement Association"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Novium Museum<\/a>, Chichester, is current host to the extremely successful exhibition on the Sidlesham Land Settlement Association (LSA)\u00a0and visitor trail\u00a0produced by Dr Bill Martin and the Manhood Wildlife & Heritage Group.<\/p>\n The exhibition\u00a0explores the 20 LSAs set up across England following the\u00a0industrial depression of the late 1930s.\u00a0Over 1,000\u00a0 unemployed miners and ship builders, from the North-East of\u00a0England and South Wales, were given the opportunity to join Land\u00a0Settlement Associations across Britain\u00a0and begin new lives as market-gardeners.\u00a0The largest was Sidlesham,\u00a0West Sussex, with 120 smallholdings.<\/p>\n The exhibition at the Novium has been extended until April 2017. Following this it will be put on permanent display at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum<\/a>, who wish to include the LSA story as a permanent part of their exhibition on 20th century local life in West Sussex.<\/p>\n Follow this link to read the\u00a0 Oct 2016\u00a0Land Settlement Association Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n