For one afternoon only! This Sunday between 12pm and 3pm – in the Chatty Cafe, a sample of dolls house furniture, room boxes and a couple of cmaller houses from a private collection.
Share your happy memories of happy playtimes and meet the collector to swap stories.
The Chatty Cafe is next to The Old School Canteen coffee shop where hot drinks and delicious cakes are on sale to help the conversation flow!
Pop along anytime between 1.30pm – 3.30pm for crafty fun and make something to add to your Halloween decorations.
Thursday 27 October in our Chatty Cafe next to The Old School Canteen where refeshments are on sale.
Free – but donations towards material costs welcome!
Special events each Open Weekend on the first and third weekend each month from November.
Opening times of The Old School Canteen remain unchanged: Thursday – Sunday 10am-4pm.
Sorry but we have no tickets left for Alice, it’s a sell out. Keep a look out for our next production.
This walk, led by Andrew Robinson on behalf of Barton Civic Society, explores the traces of the area’s busy industrial and commercial activity which helped shape the town. Meet at Malkiln Road Bridge (corner of Waterside Road) at 1.30pm. Anticipated duration: 60-90 minutes. Free.
A 40 minutes tour starting at 1.30pm, demonstrating Mr. Wilderspin’s outside classroom in the Playground before adjourning to his schoolroom.
In the setting of Samuel Wilderspin’s playground garden Catherine Fordham explains John Wesley’s ideas about the curing properties of plants. Starts at 1pm. Free.
During Heritage Open Days our trail for the under fives returns and will continue throughout the autumn.
Visit East Yorkshire’s “finest country house” at Sledmere, near Driffield, with Barton Civic Society and Wilderspin volunteers. The trip includes a guided tour of the country house, with its beautiful walled garden. Then, there will be time to see the rare breed farm park, explore the spacious grounds – ideal for a picnic, and visit the Wagoners’ Museum which tells the story of the Wagoners’ Special Reserve and their horse drawn supply wagons in the First World War.
Coach pick-up at 9.30am from the Wilderspin & National School Museum, Queen Street. Arriving back in Barton by approximately 4.30 pm.
Cost per person £20.00 including travel, entry and tour fees. Payment should be made in advance at the Wilderspin School Museum.
Call in at Wilderspin to book or ring (01652) 635172.
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.
