Barton Heritage Walk
Join the Civic Society’s Heritage Open Days walk around the town to discover its rich history. More details.
Join the Civic Society’s Heritage Open Days walk around the town to discover its rich history. More details.
Creativity Unwrapped festival, walks and talks. More details.
Click below for the full Barton Heritage Open Days programme.
Regrettably, after seven successful years at the Museum, the Old School Canteen coffee shop has ceased trading.
The coffee shop was an independent business and despite support from the Museum charitable trust during its period of operation, during Covid, and throughout the current energy crisis, the proprietor decided that the escalating energy and catering cost pressures had become unsustainable.
We’ve been so lucky to have such a superb and unique refreshments offer for our museum visitors, and the awards it’s won are testament to its popularity with many customers from Barton and further afield.
We wish all the team every success in their new jobs and thank them for all their enthusiasm and hard work.
Care of our museum collection is the job of our Collections Group, a small team of dedicated volunteers. We are grateful to ongoing support of Museum Development Yorkshire who provide training and opportunities to liaise with colleagues from other museums. They are supporting us again with training for our volunteers to show them the special cleaning methods and object handling techniques which will help ensure the long-term care of items entrusted to us. We are currently seeking funding to install window blinds to improve protection of items on display following previous guidance support from MDY. Museum Development Yorkshire is part of the York Museums Trust. It provides advice and support for museums in Yorkshire and the Humber and is funded by Arts Council England.
Our Collections Group meets weekly and undertake a variety of tasks including cataloguing and adding items to our Collection as well as research and display design. There’s much to do and new volunteers are welcome – just get in touch if you’d like to know more or see what they do.
We’re getting things ready for Creativity Unwrapped, our Heritage Open Days festival on Saturday 9 September so need to close at 12pm on Friday 8 September.
Sorry for the inconvenience but hope to see you at the festival!
Humber and Wolds Rural Action (HWRA) are now based at Wilderspin, in the Aelberry Building.
HWRA support and encourage rural communities to develop, so they can influence their own futures and secure a range of community facilities and services.
There are around 11,000 rural communities across Britain ranging from small hamlets to bustling market towns, all with their own individual character and economy. However, rural communities now find themselves at a cross-roads and action is essential in order to generate more sustainable communities and lifestyles, offering a better quality of life for all who live in the countryside, not just the affluent who can afford to live there.
With global pressures such as climate change, an ageing population and long lasting constraints on public spending, it is time to generate a new vision for our rural communities that delivers better services in different ways. Only then can we provide for the needs of both current and future generations that live, work and play in the countryside.
Their website is: www.hwrcc.org.uk
We are not, after all, able to take part in the Barton Street Boot on Sunday 30 June – but we’ll save our bric a brac for the next one in August.
Check Facebook for locations of all the other stalls running between 10am – 2pm.
Monthly informal get-togethers to “chew the cud” on a range of topics – between 2 and 4pm.
Holidays reminiscences – bring along your old summer snaps for a trip down memory lane.
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
The Wilderspin National School has received help and support from the following organisations:
The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.
