Monthly Archives: November 2018

A Christmas Cardio

A heart attack, Ebenezer Scrooge, the NHS, and a couple of squirrels feature in this new heart warming seasonal play by Theatre on the Edge in support of the Daisy Appeal raising funds for Molecular Imaging Research Centre for PET CT scanning .

Admission is free but a donation for the Daisy Appeal is much encouraged! (£5 if possible!)

Joseph Wright Hall (first floor auditorium), 7.30pm (doors open 7pm).

Posted on:21st November 2018
John French lighting gas lights in Wilderspin. room

Barton Christmas Festival

We are preparing for the Barton Christmas Festival on Saturday 24 November and our Dickensian Christmas (from 29 November) so the Wilderspin Infants Schoolroom will be getting a seasonal facelift which will change its historical authenticity!  If you were planning to visit Samuel Wilderspin’s Model Infant Schoolroom we would advise you to visit another time – it will be back to “normal” from Thursday 20 December.

But come along also to our Victorian Christmas Fair on 24 November between 11am and 4pm featuring an indoor Christmas Market, seasonal refreshments in the Old School Canteen and Barton’s only truly Victorian Father Christmas in his Gallery Grotto!

Posted on:15th November 2018

The School in Action

We have local schools visiting and getting a taste of Victorian school life, on Thursday and Friday this week which visitors might like to watch in the Wilderspin Infant Schoolroom and the Victorian Classroom.

Posted on:14th November 2018
children having lesson in Victorian Schoolroom

Victorian Classroom in session

We’ll be hosting a visit from a local today so visitors can watch the Victorian Classroom in action in the morning, and the Wilderspin Schoolroom in the afternoon.

Posted on:7th November 2018