I’m delighted to share with you all that The Out of Town (OOT) Museum Project Team has received a Highly Commended award from the Marsh Trust in recognition of an outstanding contribution to engaging museum audiences. The judges commented “ We were overwhelmed by the number and quality of the applications which we received, with some regions […]
In June we announced that we had been awarded a grant of £192,697 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. We are delighted to be able to tell you about the progress we have made in our heritage project over the last two months. We have engaged a wide range of
Is there a chance that you recognise anyone in this rather bizarre image from faces in your family photographs, or perhaps you have learnt from family stories that they took part in this tableau? It shows one participating group from the Conservative Pageant at Alnwick Castle on July 6th 1927. The “Rothy and Combo” Conservative
There are around 600 different photographs already on the Bailiffgate Collections website ( see them here if you wish). Every one of them tells a fascinating story of our District and how its occupations, life and leisure developed between the latter part of the 1800’s and the 1950’s. If you have spent a little while
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Have you ever held a second hand book in your hands and wondered about who used to own it and how it came to be there? While tidying up the baskets of books for our Wonderful World of Ladybird Books Artists exhibition, I became fascinated by the many stories these books have to tell about
Intrepid reporters Thea and Eva set out to investigate… Having volunteered for years at the museum and listened to so many children of all ages enjoying themselves, it was the turn of my own granddaughters Thea aged 3 ¾ and Eva aged 1 ¾ . On Saturday we visited, and I had the wonderful experience
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Pictured : Chair of Alnwick Civic Society Peter Reed (far left) donating one of the large-scale maps to Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery Chair Jean Humphrys In 2021 Alnwick Civic Society undertook a project with the Historic Towns Trust, and a number of local community groups, to develop and publish a historic map of Alnwick and
Adeline from Cumbria was the proud winner of this year’s Bailiffgate Ghost Hunt. The competition ran over the school half term weeks of Scotland and England. Participants had to find the 24 ghosts hiding around Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery, encouraging children to look carefully all around the exhibits. The prize was a gift voucher for
About 4 years ago the museum was contacted by an American author who was working on a book about the lives of sisters, Louise and Ida Cook. In the 1930s the sisters had helped to rescue a large number of Jewish people from Nazi Germany and Austria. The author, Isabel Vincent, knew that Louise and
A feature of the recent Heritage weekend was an exhibition of Alnwick residents who had turned their hand to inventing something useful. One of these was George Wilkin, who was working as a plumber in Alnwick in the mid-1800’s. This date is extremely relevant, as the great Alnwick cholera outbreak took place in 1849, taking
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