gained a new cultural centre, replacing the Manor House (which has
now been sold) as home of the Towner Art Gallery; it is located in the cultural
district next to the Congress Theatre and Devonshire Park. Eastbourne has two
cinemas—the Curzon Cinema and Cineworld. The Curzon Cinema is a small,
family-run, independent cinema in Langney Road, in the town centre. Cineworld
is a large Multiplex cinema with six screens, located in The Crumbles Retail
Park, near Sovereign Harbour. The London Philharmonic Orchestra makes regular
appearances and has an annual season at the Congress Theatre. Eastbourne
Bandstand lies between the Wish Tower and the pier. It stages the 1812 Firework
Concerts, Rock N Roll nights, Big Band concerts, Promenade concerts and Tribute
Nights with tributes to artists such as ABBA, Elvis Presley and Queen. There
was once a second similar bandstand (also built in 1935) in the "music
gardens" near the redoubt fortress. The bandstand was removed to make way
for the Pavilion Tearooms but the colonnades built around it are still there
(behind the tea rooms). Before 1935 each of these sites had a smaller
"birdcage" bandstand; the one in the music gardens having been moved
from a rather precarious position opposite the Albion Hotel. The kiosk in the
music gardens was originally one of the toll kiosks at the entrance to the
pier. Local radio station Sovereign FM broadcasts to Eastbourne from nearby
Hailsham. There are two other regional radio stations, Heart Sussex,
(previously Southern FM) which broadcasts across Sussex from Portslade and BBC
Sussex which broadcasts from Brighton.
Eastbourne has Cornish connections, most notably visible in the Cornish high
cross in the churchyard of St Mary's Church which was brought from an
unspecified location in Cornwall. Trevithick, the inventor of the steam
locomotive (a claim disputed on the grave of one Vyvyan in the churchyard at
Camborne), is reported to have spent some time here. A
