Quiz Night

Book for our next popular general knowledge quiz.

Teams of up to six – or we can match you up with others.

£2 per person.  7pm start. Bar and raffle.

Tel. (01652) 635172 to book

Posted on:29th February 2024

Easter Egg-Stravaganza

Kick off the Easter celebrations this Good Friday and celebrate our Spring re-opening for a jam-packed itinerary including free face painting and kids crafts; a tombola, a sewing workshop with guest artist Nicky Dillerstone, and our popular Bunny Trail.

11am to 3pm

Admission: Adults £5 (annual ticket allows unlimited return visits for 12 months); children FREE (see below for detail)

 

 

 

Posted on:28th February 2024

Maybe Dick

Herman Melville’s classic tale of revenge and retribution is retold in this inventive, comedic adventure on the high seas from the company behind ‘Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show’ and ‘Dracula! One Bloody Fang After Another’

All plot will be lampooned. All jokes will be harpooned.

Joseph Wright Hall.  7.30pm. Tickets £10 (advance) or £12 OTD

Posted on:26th January 2024

Capability Brown

Wilderspin hosts Barton Civic Society’s February lecture by Andrew Robinson about the eighteenth-century gardener and landscape architect Capability Brown.

2pm – 3.30pm, Joseph Wright Hall, Non-members £4

Posted on:20th January 2024

Make Do & Mend

Join us for our final Winter Warmer Open Day before our reopening in the Spring, and sample a slice of the 1940s as we learn how recycling and repurposing is nothing new!

11am-3pm

Free admission and refreshments

Posted on:20th January 2024

Mother Goose

Our resident Community Theatre Group FRIENDS AT BARTON return with another family pantomime, transforming the Joseph Wright Hall into Witz End Farm.  Will Demon Vanity steal the golden eggs or will Fairy Virtue save the day?

Posted on:20th January 2024

Valentines Quiz Night

Book for our next popular general knowledge quiz.

Teams of up to six – or we can match you up with others.

£2 per person.  7pm start. Bar and raffle.

Tel. (01652) 635172 to book

Posted on:17th January 2024

Vere Foster- Changing lives for the Irish poor

Vere Foster was a Victorian philanthropist and educator described by the author Brendan Colgan, as an “English Gentleman and Irish Champion”.

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During the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland he set up an agricultural training school and assisted the poor wherever he could, and personally helped with the re-settlement of thousands of emigrants to North America escaping starvation and disease.

For those unable to emigrate he set his sights on improving their life chances by lifting educational standards in Irish schools, spending a vast fortune building and equipping schools and designing his own ‘Copy Books’ for the teaching of writing.

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Jean Cannon shares the story of one of the most remarkable and unifying figures in the history of post-famine Ireland. as part of our Barton Heritage Project partnership in association with Barton Civic Society.

Joseph Wright Hall, 2pm, free.

Posted on:2nd January 2024

Christmas Quiz Night

Join us for another popular quiz evening !

7pm (doors open 6.30pm)

Book your place or team (up to six) at £2 per person (01652 635172)

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Posted on:27th November 2023

Winter Warmer Open Day

We’re open on Friday 15th December between 11am and 3pm

Discover the Wilderspin Story – FREE museum admission!

School Life exhibition about the Barton Church School

Free Talk: “The Church School Archive” at 11am (doors open at 10.30 with refreshments)

Christmases Past in the Chatty Cafe 12pm – 2pm – reminisce and make a card with free refreshments

Posted on:27th November 2023