Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

Looking for the areas where funding is available is the first priority.

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Watch this space! Good news COULD be on the horizon!

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

Whoo-hoo!

Good luck.

:mosher:

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

That would make a nice change, .............if it occurs,Warn em not to put benches outside.:D;)

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'A small but wide-ranging collection of locally associated items including fragments of carved stone, reputed to originate from a medieval monastery, local photographs, gramophone records, textiles, 18 pairs of shoes, 13 printing blocks from the Broad Oak printing works and commemorative items such as the key for the Accrington Fire Station that opened in 1935.'

Location Details - Haworth Art Gallery.

Cornucopia

Where? I've never seen 18 pairs of shoes, or the other things at the Haworth.

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'Hapton Castle became uninhabited and fell into decay. All that remains now is a low wall 2 ft high between two trees in Castle Clough and an Elizabethan coin which was found on the site. It is now displayed in! Accrington Museum.'

The village of Hapton is to be found at the foot of Hameldon Hill, overshadowed by Pendle Hill to the north and the towns of Burnley and Accrington to the east and west. It is a typical Lancastrian industrial village with its streets of terraced hous

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk..._last/?ref=rss

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

Title - Corporation of Accrington: Municipal Museum

Published - 1900

Corporation of Accrington: Municipal ... - Accrington. Municipal Museum, Balthasar Wilhelm Gerland, Conrad Gerland - Google Books

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A SPECIAL INVITATION TO INTERESTED FOLK

Tuesday 1st November 2011, at the Peel Park Hotel, Turkey Street, Accrington. 7.15ish for a 7.30 start

A few folk have decided to get together and form a group re getting a museum back into our town. We intend to meet at The Peel Park Hotel next Tues and at this meeting we should, at the very least, agree a name for the group and appoint a Chair, a Secretary and a Treasurer.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PART OF IT?
Please let me know if you would like to attend.
WE NEED YOU!

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

As you know, I'm really hoping to be there, to add my support.

:)

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Thank you so much Garinda.

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I just want to find out where the eighteen pair of shoes are, in the Haworth's collection.

Whose shoes were they?

How old are they?

Have they got a penny loafer in a wide fitting size 11?

:D

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

Best of luck Atarah. it's a great idea and I'm with you all the way. Sorry I can't make the meeting (doubly so as it's in a real ale pub and I'm a Camra member) as I live in Morecambe and don't have transport but I would like to register my support.

By the way I think any museum should be in or near the town centre to bring visitors in. Haworth Park is nice but it's a bit out of the way especially if like me you don't drive.

Good luck wih the project.

Sue

Re: Accrington should have a museum
 

That makes sense, and would be an ideal.

Sadly the Town Hall, which contains our visitor and information centre, is now closed at the weekend, due to the cuts we're all living with.

So it sadly seems the possibility of a town centre museum is remote.

I'm really hoping to be there, just as a supporter, if there's anything you'd like to be made known, if you send me a message I'll do my best to pass on any suggestion or thoughts you might like to add.

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Thanks Garinda but there's nothing more I want to say just now, just add my support.

I do however have one or two things I think should be in a museum, more as archive than for display probably. For intance I have a collection of letters written by my great grandfather to his family in 1930. He owned trotting horses (the ones where the jockey sits in a little cart behind - we did have some cups he won but I think my dad must have sold them). Anyway times were hard and he took some of the horses out to New Zealand to try and sell them. They went on a liner andi think a couple of other men went too. The letters describe going through the Panama Canal and his unsuccessful travels around NZ trying to sell the horses. They are often written in pencil on whatever paper was to hand. He was not a very literate man (he was a fish merchant) but his love for his family and his longing to go home shine through. Sadly he died suddenly on Christmas Eve 1930 aged only in hie early fifties and was buried in NZ but he was later exhumed and taken home.

My father gave me the letters a few years ago before he died and I was very moved when I read them. I had always understood that he went to NZ to buy horses, not sell them but I think that story must have been put about so it did not seem that the family needed money. I think the story would make a good radio programme or short book but I can't do it. Anyway I think the letters might be of interest to a museum.

Cheers

Sue

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Susie. I advuise that you contact your local (Lacastyer) branch of the Lancashire Family History Association. They are interested in publishing family material such as this.

Garinda - Please do not go into the Peel Park wearing that turban. It could get Atarah going and start a trend.