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Find it Friday! – Week 35.
Again, I must apologise as I have not wrote a blog for a while as I have been very, very busy. With numerous museums visits and various projects currently on the go, I hope to do a couple of catchup blogs in … Continue reading
Find it Friday! – Week 30.
Vernon Park Museum was purpose built in 1860 when two Stockport MP’s James Kershaw and John Benjamin Smith each gave £500 towards Stockport Museum being built within the grounds of Vernon Park. Smith had purchased 47 paintings during his grand … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, find it friday, Friday, John Benjamin Smith, Painting, saints and sinners, stockport story museum
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Find it Friday! – Week 28.
This week the Greater Manchester Museums Group (GMMG) have been here in Stockport photographing some of our objects. For what and why I will explain in a specific blog post next week. But for now I can tell you this, an … Continue reading
Tours, Trips and Ghosts.
As you may or may not be aware the Curatorial Services where I am based stores the collection items for a number of sites in the Stockport area. At the weekend two of the sites opened their doors for Heritage … Continue reading
Posted in Bramall Hall, Day's Out, Hat Works, Staircase House, Stockport Story Museum
Tagged Adam and Eve, Altrincham, Art Deco, Bramall Hall, Charles Nevill, cinema, collection, Curatorial Services, Dame Dorothy Davenport, Downton Abbey, Egyptian, English Heritage, ghost, guided tour, Hat Works, heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, heritage open day, heritage sites, HLF, jacobean, John Henry Davies, Lady Sybil, Manchester, Manchester United, mecca bingo, medieval, Neon, norman, norman conquest, North England, Paradise, Plaza, Read Snape and Ward Circuit, Regal cinema, restoration, Sandstone, Sleep Tight, SMBC, staircase house, Stockport, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Stockport Plaza, Stockport Plaza Trust, stockport story museum, The Plaza, theatre, Tom Branson, tours, Tudor, volunteers, William Thornley
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Find it Friday! – Week 17.
There was no Find it Friday! – Week 16 as I was off for the week but I am going to make that up to you with an amazing object this week and the story of how it played its part in … Continue reading
Posted in Find it Friday!, Stockport Story Museum
Tagged ARP, Blitz, Bordeaux, canoe, Cockle Mark 2, Collections, find it friday, Friday, Herbert George ‘Blondie’ Hasler, heros, HMS Tuna, John ‘Jack’ Withers MacKinnon, Marines, military, Operation Frankton, Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment, Stockport, stockport story museum, The Cockleshell heros, winston churchill, World War II
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Conservation of two very different objects, in two very different ways.
Exhibitions are usually planned months, often years in advance and take a lot of work. Last week Katie S and I gave Bronwen a hand getting some paintings ready for a future exhibition that she is putting together. The paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Freezer, Stockport Story Museum, Taxidermy, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Bubble wrap, carpet beetles, Collections, Conservation, Curatorial Services, fawn, Freezer, infested, John Benjamin Smith, Member of Parliament, MODES, Museum, pest control, saints, Sheffield, sinners, Stockport, stockport story museum
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She sells sea shells at Stockport Story Museum.
It is only Wednesday and a lot has already been going on and getting done this week, which is always great news! I started Monday morning by, unfortunately, taking apart a display that was once in Vernon Park Museum. Vernon … Continue reading
Posted in Air Raid Shelters, Modes, Retrospective Documentation, Stockport Story Museum, Vernon Park
Tagged Air Raid Shelters, Collections, Curatorial Services, Home Front, MODES, Museum, photographs, Retrospective Documentation, She sells sea shells on the sea shore, shells, Stockport, stockport story museum, vernon park, World War II
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