{"id":806332,"date":"2026-10-18T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806332\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:00:19","slug":"early-bayeux-tapestry-ticket-access-for-residents-near-battle-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806332\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bayeux Tapestry ticket access for residents near battle site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living near the site of the Battle of Hastings are being given priority access to buy tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hastings MP Helena Dollimore said residents in the area would be able to secure exhibition tickets before the general sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents can book by calling the British Museum box office and will need to provide a postcode and use a payment card registered to a Hastings or Rother billing address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dollimore said the return of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, after its loan from France, was the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyzq5x1nq1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition of a generation<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she pushed to ensure residents would be prioritised &#8220;to see this piece of our local heritage on the national stage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents can make one booking per household during the priority period, with a maximum of 10 tickets available per booking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Priority booking will open at 10:00 BST on Monday, 48 hours before tickets go on sale to the public on Wednesday, the MP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People living near the site of the Battle of Hastings are being given priority access to buy tickets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}