PEVENSEY TIMELINE ASSOCIATION
news release
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Tomorrow (Thursday 9 July), we welcome to the locality some of the project team behind the extraordinary Whale Hall in Cambridge that will see the skeleton of the Pevensey Whale becoming an icon for the country in its new home.
With us will be members of the marketing team and the outreach education team from the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology.
A very big welcome to Pevensey and the Bay to the team behind the £5.9 million project that will see the Pevensey Whale become one the most famous whale skeletons to be exhibited in the country.
In a small ceremony to be held at the Priory Court Hotel in Pevensey we will be unveiling the Pevensey Whale Commemorative fine bone china mug, created by the Over The Moon Party Shop, here in the Bay. On the mug are the words which we believe children would have sung by the side of the whale.
These words were re-discovered in a local newspaper dated 1932.
We believe that when the words are spoken from the two rhyming couplets tomorrow, that it will be the first time that the rhyme has been heard since something like 1870, here in Pevensey.
Commemoration date, 150th anniversary of the beaching of the Pevensey Whale, 13 November 2015.
Events to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beaching of the Pevensey Whale have begun.
Led and managed by the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology, The Ocean Song project with the David Attenborough programme Life on Earth world renowned sound recordist, Chris Watson, will be with us here in the community at the end of August.
Pevensey Timeline Association
8 July 2015
