Open Day – come and join us
Come and have a look behind the scenes, join one of our historic tours or chat to our staff to see if you’d like to join our award-winning team of volunteers who run the Museum.
Saturday 19 February 11am -3pm
Come and have a look behind the scenes, join one of our historic tours or chat to our staff to see if you’d like to join our award-winning team of volunteers who run the Museum.
Saturday 19 February 11am -3pm
The award-winning coffee shop is open Thursdays-Sundays 10am and 4pm serving morning breakfasts and afternoon teas in the unique setting of the former National School
well spaced tables for Covid safety
on-site baking
local sourcing
Tel (01652) 636053 to book
Barton Civic Society’s next talk is this Friday, 19 November at Wilderspin at 7.30pm.
Neil Wilkyn analyses a probate inventory to give us a tantalising glimpse into the home of a Barton resident in the sixteenth century. What possessions did they have? What was their furniture like? Imagine looking through the window into a house from 500 years ago.
Non members £2 – but bring raffle money too!
Museums at Night Quiz Night is tomorrow Friday 29 October in the Infant Schoolroom in the Museum – £2 per person, teams of up to six can be booked now on (01652) 635172. Doors open 6.30pm. Quiz starts at 7pm. Bar. Raffle. Car parking at rear of Museum.
On Saturdays 4 & 11 and Sundays 5 & 12 December, 10am-4pm, we’ve some craft and gift stalls next to The Old School Canteen in addition to our own Christmas shop clearance with loads of stocking filler bargains. And Father Christmas will be in his grotto again – 11 – 12.30 and 1.30 – 3.00 (£3.50).
If you’d like to book a stall for any of the dates above – please ring (01652) 635172
How did schools and wider society cope with going decimal overnight fifty years ago?
Reminisce in the Chatty Café and share your memories of pounds, shillings and pence and non-metric weights and measures before the big change.
Samuel Wilderspin began his pioneering work spreading Infant Schools throughout the British Isles in 1820. Ian Wolseley explores the travels, trials and tribulations of this itinerant promoter of Infant education as he journeyed by road and sea just as the railway age dawned – making a four-year “stopover” here in Barton to set up his Model School. The talk is part of Barton Civic Society’s 2021 lecture programme, and will take place in the Joseph Wright Hall (ground floor) at 7.3opm. Non members £2. Doors open 7.00pm.
Barton Civic Society’s public lecture programme recommences at Wilderspin with a welcome return of popular speaker Marilyn Roberts to take a light-hearted look at how some of the world’s leading auction houses, galleries and museums have been fooled by forgers – including the infamous Garden Shed Gang of Bolton!
The talk is part of Barton Civic Society’s 2021 lecture programme, and will take place in the Joseph Wright Hall (ground floor) at 7.3opm. Non members £2. Doors open 7.00pm.
Wilderspin National School
Queen Street
Barton-upon-Humber
DN18 5QP
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The Wilderspin National School is an independent museum, registered charity no. 1047187 and a Company Limited by Guarantee no. 2844791.
