Today to Sat 19 Sep
Fri 11 Sep:09:30-17:00; Sat 12 Sep:09:30-17:00; Mon 14 Sep:09:30-17:00; Tues 15 Sep:09:30-17:00; Thu 17 Sep:09:30-13:30; Fri 18 Sep:09:30-17:00; Sat 19 Sep:09:30-17:00; Free Entry.
Hampshire County Council, Havant Library, Meridian Centre, Havant PO9 1UN
Heritage Open Day: The Swing Riots of 1830 took this area completely by surprise. Come and explore what happened and how it all ended in a special travelling exhibition at Havant Library In November 1830, men from over the border in Warblington crossed into Hampshire and over a twelve hour period smashed up and destroyed nine threshing machines on farms right across the eastern part of what is now the Borough of Havant. In this special exhibition you can discover who did the damage, what happened to them and why they decided to show their displeasure at that key time in the agricultural year...
