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Behind the Scenes at Bailiffgate
Our museum blog below features updates and stories about the work of Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery. This includes both activities in the museum itself and our community projects. These my involve working with a particular street or area to gather personal stories and facts about the community. They may also involve creating a database on a particular topic. Our well-used World War One database on our bailiffgate collections website is a good example of this.
Generally a blog has been written by one of our volunteers, so that you can gain a real-life picture of what it is like to do volunteer work at Bailiffgate.
BBC Features latest Bailiffgate Exhibition
BBC News online has featured the first Bailiffgate exhibition of 2026, “Intimately Connected” created by Claire Ward (pictured above) under the headline “Waste art blurs lines between humans and nature”. The article goes on to quote Claire explaining that her work was an expression of her “concerns about the consequences of our presence on this […]
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Fancy a trip up the River Coquet?
Fancy a leisurely trip up the beautiful river Coquet in about 1900? Seeing the sights along the way from the collier-packed harbour of Amble to the wilds of Philhope and Makendon close to the river source. On the way you will glimpse the ever-imposing Warkworth castle from the river, Rothbury racecourse , young ladies fishing […]
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Alnwick Bowling Club celebrates nearly 150 Years
Alnwick Bowling Club is celebrating almost 150 years of operation with an image in the new 2026 “Old Alnwick in Photographs” calendar. The page for May 2026 shows club members and their wives gathered on their “new green” in 1894, although the club was actually founded in 1877, 148 years ago, now making it […]
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OOT Museum Praised
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 […]
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Northumberland Hall Update – September 2024
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 […]
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Do you know of an ancestor on this odd image?
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 […]
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Choosing Images for the first ever Old Alnwick Calendar
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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Exciting New Project for Bailiffgate
Heritage at the Heart of the Community – This is Alnwick Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery is pleased to announce that over 5 years the museum and gallery will be receiving £374,395 to fund our “Heritage at the Heart of the Community – This is Alnwick” project. The project will over the next five years allow […]
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Record Covers a Smash Hit
We thought that Steve Goldman’s amazing collection of record covers would prove popular, but certainly not how amazingly so. Following coverage on BBC Look North we had over 5000 people visit this website to find out more about it. Weekly attendance records for Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery- even those set by our Harry Potter exhibition […]
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