In the Footsteps of Ravilious

25 November 2022

The first instalment of a project by Robert Littleford and Rachael Adams, deep mapping the area in and around Newhaven – at present concentrating on the Port, Fort and Harbour – but spanning out into the surrounding Tracks and Paths of the Downs (Glynde, Firle, Cuckmere): landscapes made so familiar over 80 years ago by Eric Ravilious

Ravilious was posted in Newhaven as a War Artist in September and October 1940. He recorded what he saw around the port of the East Quay, the harbour mouth – where the coast and the River Ouse meet – and the Fort which overlooks the West Quay. A couple of miles inland, by the river at Rodmill, Virginia Woolf was writing a diary. Excerpts have been used in the Soundscapes of Rachael Adams.