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
LLaB is a newly formed group which provides short educational and informative courses for everyone aged 18 years and over.
Their latest course is Maritime Archaeology which looks at the archaeological remains of riverine and marine craft from the Bronze Age to the post-Medieval periods.
It runs on Wednesday afternoons at Wilderspin in the Raikes Room (Joseph Wright Halll) from 17 January to 21 February.
£60 for the six sessions.
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
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
Our resident Community Theatre Group FRIENDS AT BARTON return in November 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? Tickets on sale from October 2024.
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
Vere Foster was a Victorian philanthropist and educator described by the author Brendan Colgan, as an “English Gentleman and Irish Champion”.
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.
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.
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
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