Games We Used to Play
Our first Winter Warmer this year looking back at toys and games from the past and a chance to play some retro board games. Free refreshments.
11am – 3pm, children free, Adults £5 Annual Ticket
Our first Winter Warmer this year looking back at toys and games from the past and a chance to play some retro board games. Free refreshments.
11am – 3pm, children free, Adults £5 Annual Ticket
Grab a bargain from our Caretaker’s Clearout
10am – 2pm, free
Refreshments pit stop!
Wallow in nostalgic memories of holidays and days out to the seaside when knitted swimming costumes were in vogue and windbreaks were a “must have”. Grab a tea from the”kiosk” while the kids hook a duck and try their luck in the Pentathlon arcade.
11am – 3pm, children free, Adults £5 Annual Ticket
Forty years of showbusiness stories with Paul Tate who began his acting career at school in Barton before heading off to the bright lights of London, Hollywood! and Britain’s Got Talent! Q & A, costume exhibits and guest appearances by Friends at Barton colleagues.
2.30pm
Ticket details available soon.
Drop in anytime to the Wartime Classroom and meet the Teacher from the 1940s and learn first-hand what it’s like on the Home Front. The class is expecting a visit from members of Barton’s First Aid Party, along with their 1940s ambulance. The Holydyke air raid shelter will also be open to visitors too (also Saturday 6 September).
11am – 12pm & 1pm – 2pm, included in £5 Annual Ticket, children free, booking not required
Saturday 14 September
Ian Wolseley explores the travels, trials and tribulations of Samuel Wilderspin, the itinerant promoter of Infant education as he journeyed by road and sea just as the railway age dawned – making a four-year “stopover” here in Barton to set up his Model School.
2pm. Free. Booking advised – available from the Museum in person (Mon – Sat), by phone (01652) 635172, or by email wilderspinschoolmuseum@gmail.com.
Sunday 8 September
Procession and Exhibition Lesson demonstrating Mr. Wilderspin’s innovative Infant System, 180 years after the laying of the foundation stone for the National & Infant School. The Procession involving local children starts at St. Mary’s Church (2pm) followed by the Exhibition Lesson at the Museum (2.30pm). Children (and their parents!) are welcome to join in the fun – please give us a ring or call in the Museum for details and to book.
2pm at St. Mary’s Church, 2.30pm at Wilderspin, free
Follow the links to join in the fun
Discordant Noises and Effigy Burning in nineteenth century Lincolnshire. Booking advised.
2pm, £5 advance, £7 otd. Civic Society members free.
with Dr. Andrew Walker, Chair of the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology. Click for full details.
A pre lecture buffet lunch is available for just £10. Booking is essential by 23 August (01652 635172)
Saturday 7 September, 2pm
Dr. Andrew Walker delivers our inaugural Rex Russell Memorial Lecture. Andrew is Chair of the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, and has chosen this theme as Rex’s interests in Lincolnshire’s past included a deep interest in the experience of working people, their politics, religion and their culture. The talk will examine the phenomenon of rough music, which Rex referred to in a number of his works. This was a communal means of protesting, usually about actions taking place that contravened societal norms.
Using a range of set piece actions, often involving disguise and the use of discordant sounds, community members expressed dramatically their dissatisfaction with particular forms of behaviour that threatened the social order. Sometimes known by other names such as ‘riding the stang’ and ‘skimmington rides’, an examination of rough music provides an insight into the ways in which communities sought to regulate themselves in pre-industrial societies.
Drawing upon newspaper reports, folklorists’ accounts and illustrations, Andrew Walker will explore the ways in which these activities were reported in their final years during the ‘long’ nineteenth century from c. 1780 to 1914.
£5 advance, £7 otd. Civic Society members free. Booking is advised*
Why not make it a special afternoon and enjoy a pre lecture buffet lunch at Wilderspin in the School’s Playground Garden. £10 – booking essential*.
A short, guided tour of Queen Street’s legacy of Victorian public buildings including a look inside the former National & Infant School and Primitive Methodist Chapel.
11am – 12pm, Free, Booking essential (01652 635172)
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
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