view of museum on barton bike night

Barton Bike Night

Back to its traditional Wednesday evening – motorcycles, trace stands, vintage bikes and live bands.

The Museum has refreshments and helmet / leathers storage.

5-10pm

Posted on:29th February 2024

A Miscellany of Music

South Bank Singers and instrumentalists sing and play music from The Lion King, Abba, Black Adder, Show Boat, West Side Story and more!

7.30pm, Joseph Wright Hall

Tickets available from Euronics or OTD: £5 (under 16s free) inc. refreshments

Posted on:29th February 2024

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

Lifelong Learning at Barton

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.

Posted on:25th 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