An Evening with Gervase Phinn

One of our Patrons, Gervase Phinn, returns with more hilarious anecdotes of life as a teacher and School Inspector.

It’s on Friday 29th January 2016 at the Joseph Wright Hall, stating at 7.00pm at the School Museum for a welcoming drink before moving through to the Joseph Wright Hall next door.

Tickets are £16 in support of the work of the Trust and the Wilderspin Museum.  Light refreshments will be served on arrival and during the interval.  There will be an interval bar and book signing too.

Tickets are available from the Wilderspin School Museum (Thursday – Sunday 11am-3pm), from Smith & Walker Opticians – 16 High Street, and from Waters’ Edge Tourist Information Centre (from 14 December).

New County Choir Christmas Concert

The Wilderspin Schoolroom, with its gas lights and open fire,  once again helps create a festive setting for another Christmas concert by the New County Choir on Sunday 19th December at 7.30pm.

Michael Tippet’s Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time, and Bob Chilcott’s Mid Winter will be performed with Christmas Carols.  The conductor is Elisabeth Brierley.  Peter Sproston will play piano.

Winter Art Exhibition

Saturday 28th November – Friday 4th December

(Thursdays – Sundays 11am – 3pm)

This is the first winter exhibition of paintings and drawings by the Wilderspin Art Group.  This is a selection of work by the group which meets every week in the Joseph Wright Hall adjacent to the museum.  the work will be on show in the Wilderspin Schoolroom beginning on Barton Christmas Festival Day.

Classroom Christmas

Wednesday 9th December, 5pm –7pm

Didn’t have a chance to visit us at the Christmas festival?

Here’s another chance to explore the origins of our Christmas traditions in this special family event.  Find out about the first crackers, cards and Christmas trees.  There are all sorts of Victorian crafts to make and a chance to visit the only Victorian Father Christmas in Barton!

Children: £2.00

Christmas Past & Yuletide Fair

Saturday 28^th November, 1pm -5pm

Pop into the School on Christmas Festival day.  Christmas Past includes the only Victorian Father Christmas in Barton resplendent in traditional Victorian green!  Grown-ups can enjoy mulled wine and mince pies around the classroom fire while children can make a Victorian Christmas decoration.  There will be indoor stalls too and lots of Christmas stocking ideas in the Joseph Wright Hall adjacent to the School Museum.

The Museum is open from 10am as usual – the fair begins at 1pm.

Book Corner

Thursday 23 July – Monday 31 August

Thursdays – Sundays 10am – 4pm
Hundreds of hardback books for sale covering many themes including natural history, warfare, and railway history.