Summer Quiz
Doors open 6.30pm for heads down at 7pm.
Book your team of up to six. £2 pp.
Barton Bike Night
Helmet store and refreshments come rain or shine.
4pm – 9pm
This was to have been part of our 1940s Day but due to low interest it’s had to be cancelled.
Journey back to the 1940s as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, with a vintage fair, wartime cinema & theatre, evacuees’ classroom, tea dance, NAAFI café and more!
10.30am – 3.30pm, FREE
Enjoy a refreshments break in the Wilderspin Playground Garden as you tour Barton’s Open Gardens. The Museum is open on the Saturday, with refreshments on sale. On Sunday bring your own refreshments to enjoy in the Playground Garden.
2pm – 5pm
Open Gardens Map & Tickets £4 from The Ropewalk from 1 June.
We regret that this event has been cancelled. Instead, the talks will be rescheduled as part of Barton Civic Society’s 2026 Programme.
The importance and excitement of this post-war morale booster is explored in conversation with two former Church School pupils.
1pm – 3pm, FREE
Exhibition based on childhood recollections of this post-war festival in London in 1951.
Dr. Martin Watkinson FSA stumbled across the memoirs of Barton solicitor and antiquarian in an American university library and discovered that they shed light on life in the town at the end of the 1700s.
Barton Civic Society at Wilderspin, in the Joseph Wright Hall
Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm. £4 non-members.
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.
