Fresh from their award winning festival performances, South Bank Players, our resident drama group, perform two plays written by members of the group: Shelter from the Bombs by Martin James and Miss is Missing by Jeanine Guy, performed by junior members of the South Bank Players.
Ticket details: Adults £6; Concessions £5; Email £20 (2+2)
Tel. (01652) 635172 or call in Thursday – Sunday (10am – 4pm) or book online at www.sbplayers.co.uk
Fifty-five years ago Albert and his son Harold, the two warring rag-and-bone-men in Shepherd’s Bush, first appeared on our TV screens. Now, as part of a nationwide tour, Hambledon Productions breathe life back into the Steptoe household with this faithful, fresh and hilarious adaptation of original episodes from the long-running smash hit sitcom.
For one night only: 7.30pm on Tuesday 17th April in the Joseph Wright Hall. (For the time being we regret there is stepped access only to first floor auditorium).
Tickets: £8 in advance or £10 otd, available online at hambledonproductions.com and from Wilderspin (Thursday – Sunday 10am – 4pm) or by ‘phone (01652) 635172. Seating is unallocated.
Barton upon Humber Civic Society commence their 2018 programme of talks in the Joseph Wright Hall with this examination of Lincolnshire born James Creassy, a drainage engineer, land surveyor and traveller. Jean Cannon talks about Creassy’s works in England and Wales in the late 1700s and his travels in America and India based on extensive family history research.
The talk on Friday 19 January begins at 7.30pm in the ground floor Community Room which is fully accessible by wheelchair. There is a refreshment interval at about 8.15pm, and the evening generally concludes around 9.15pm.
Park in the School Museum car park or there’s a public car park on Chapel Lane – one minute’s walk. Street parking is also available.
Subsequent talks are:
16 February
Britain on Film: Rural Life
16 March
Barton Trinity Methodist Church
with Nichola Jones
20 April
A Tour Through Beverley (talk)
with Paul Schofield
18 May
History Walk through Baysgarth Park
with Richard Clarke
15 June
Garden Wildlife Close to Hand
with Adrian White
15 August
Summer trip to Epworth
14 September
Barton Town Band
with Jonathon Evison
19 October
Lincolnshire Cases in the Elizabethan Court of Star Chamber
with Helen Good
16 November
Anglo-Saxon ‘Productive Site’ at Melton Ross
with Kevin Leahy
Thank you to our sponsors who kindly donated prizes for the raffle:
Bensons Butchers
Co-op
Crisp and Fresh
CV Day Spa
Fleetgate Hardware
Fresh Cotton Clean
Lindsey Relay (Euronics)
Market Place Plant Stall
Mrs G Clark
Potty Pantos
Ride a Bike
Sandra Bright
Tesco
The Blending Room
The Old School Canteen
W.A.Clarke Shoe Shop
Wilderspin School Museum
Winning tickets in our Christmas Raffle were:
We are immensely grateful to the Co-op Local Community Fund which has helped us launch our cushion sponsorship scheme, contributing over £900 to our £10,000 target. Private sponsors have added to this so we are well over 10% of the way to creating a unique and comfortable performance space to complement other venues in the town.
Businesses and private individuals are invited to sponsor cushions for £50 each or sections of cushions, which will be acknowledged with permanent labelling and in our publicity material for the Hall.
The New County Choir return to the Joseph Wright Hall with their performance of The Infancy of Christ, a Christmas cantata, by Douglas Coombes.
7.30pm
Tickets (£6) can be bought on the door.
There will be refreshments on sale after the concert.
Please note: we only have stair access to the first floor auditorium – but there is also a stair lift if required.
Image: Westminster Window By Hystfield – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23413742
11am – 4pm
Indoor Christmas market and Victorian fair in the Infants Schoolroom, with Barton’s only authentic Victorian Father Christmas in his secret Grotto. Enjoy mulled wine around a blazing fire or afternoon tea in the festive coffee shop – come inside away from the crowds.
Join us for our second Museums at Night quiz.
Register your team of up to six for another evening of brainteasers and fun. £2 per person. Bar and raffle.
Isaac Pitman developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand, which he proposed one hundred and eighty years ago. He developed his shorthand system while he was employed as teacher at the British School (just across the road from the Museum) between 1832 and 1836 – practising while listening to sermons in the town’s churches and chapels. To mark the 120th anniversary of his death – we have one of the Pitman Puzzles which will tease visitors at a number of the venues taking part in this year’s Heritage Open Days.
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
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The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.