Christmas with Nancy

Join author and Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle for a festive evening as we welcome her as a patron of the Queen Street School Preservation Trust.  Nancy will demonstrate some baking tips and ideas for home-made Christmas gifts.

All revenue will be used by the Trust for continuing restoration of the School and former Chapel.

Book now to avoid disappointment.

Joseph Wright Hall, 7.30 pm, £20 (includes a welcome glass of bubbly and raffle prize)

Posted on:30th July 2024

How To Be Brave

The true story of fortitude, courage and love about 14 men aboard a life raft after their ship was torpedoed in the South Atlantic in 1943.

7.30pm, £10, tickets on sale now (Other Lives Productions)

Posted on:28th July 2024

How To Be Brave

Other Lives Prodiuctions return to Joseph Wright Hall with a story of 14 men aboard a life raft after their ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic in 1943.

7.30pm, £10 Tickets on sale now.

Posted on:26th July 2024

Nancy Birtwhistle joins the Trust as a Patron

The Queen Street School Preservation Trust is proud to welcome Nancy Birtwhistle as a Patron.

Nancy is a bestselling author, lifelong gardener and Hull-born baker who won the fifth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2014.

Nancy will be helping the Trust with its latest fundraising efforts at a festive evening in December.  Tickets are now on sale.

 

 

 

Posted on:25th July 2024

Museums at Night Quiz

Book now!  7pm, £2 per person, Bar and raffle

 

Posted on:25th July 2024

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

Posted on:25th July 2024

Barton Street Boot

Grab a bargain from our Caretaker’s Clearout

10am – 2pm, free

Refreshments pit stop!

Posted on:25th July 2024

Beside the Seaside

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

seaside spectacular (820 x 360 px)

 

 

Posted on:25th July 2024

Barton to Hollywood

Forty years of showbusiness stories with Paul Tate, with Q & A, costume exhibits and guest appearances by Friends at Barton colleagues.

2.30pm, £5 (tickets on sale now)

Posted on:25th July 2024

Wartime Schooldays

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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

Posted on:25th July 2024