Summerheath Hall

01/06/2026

📸 HELP US CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF SUMMERHEATH HALL 🎭🎶🥞
As part of our Centenary Celebrations (1926–2026), we’re creating a community memories archive — and we’d love YOUR help.
For 100 years, Summerheath Hall has been at the heart of community life in Hailsham. Over the decades it has hosted:
✨ Wedding receptions
✨ WI meetings
✨ Boxing tournaments
✨ Theatre productions & drama festivals
✨ Dance classes & concerts
✨ Cinema nights
✨ Fashion shows
✨ Christmas parties
✨ Quizzes & auctions
✨ Horticultural shows
✨ Pancake tossing
✨ Cuckoo Line closure enquiry
…and so many more unforgettable moments.
Do you have:
📷 Old photographs
🎟 Programmes or tickets
📰 Newspaper cuttings
💌 Stories or memories
👨‍👩‍👧 Family connections to the hall
We would love to hear from you and help preserve the history of Summerheath Hall for future generations.
Please message us directly or email your memories and photographs to [email protected]
Every photo and every story helps tell the story of our community ❤️

27/05/2026

✨ CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF SUMMERHEATH HALL ✨

Join us for a special OPEN DAY as we celebrate the centenary of Summerheath Hall 1926 to 2026!

📸 Hall renovation photos
🎞️ Hailsham Theatres Archive on display going back to 1934!
👥 Information about hall hire & our regular user groups
Whether you’ve performed here, attended events, hired the hall or simply want to discover its history, everyone is welcome to celebrate this milestone with us.
🎉 FREE ENTRY
🎉 ALL WELCOME
Action in rural Sussex What's on in Hailsham

20/05/2026

We are looking to fill the position of Treasurer.

The Treasurer is responsible for overseeing the financial management of Summerheath Hall, ensuring that the charity’s finances are properly administered and comply with statutory requirements. The role supports the trustees in maintaining the hall as a sustainable and valuable asset for the local community.

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08/05/2024

31/05/2023

29/05/2022

Jubilee road closures in Hailsham:

High Street - 2nd June

Summerheath Road - 3rd June

Hawkswood Drive - 5th June

Windsor Road - 5th June

Western Road - 5th June

25/01/2021

Celebrating

The first record of a permanent building on the Summerheath Road site is in 1926, although the land had several owners in the 35 years previous.

The property was acquired in May 1926 for the intended construction of a Labour Hall with the financial assistance of the Hastings Permanent Building Society.

The Labour Party used the hall for 33 years. In September 1959, ownership of the now renamed Summerheath Hall passed to trustees for the sum of £2100 to be used "as a village hall for the use of the inhabitants of Hailsham with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants".

An early aerial photograph of Green Brothers Factory and Summerheath Road shows the empty plot with a single track across the scrub, joining Summerheath Road to the twitten behind - an obvious shortcut when the plot was empty.

Summerheath Hall is a registered charity and run by a Management committee and its trustees.

What memories do you have of Summerheath Hall?