How To Be Brave

The true story of fortitude, courage and love about 14 men aboard a life raft after their ship was torpedoed in the South Atlantic in 1943.

7.30pm, £10, tickets on sale now (Other Lives Productions)

How To Be Brave

Other Lives Prodiuctions return to Joseph Wright Hall with a story of 14 men aboard a life raft after their ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic in 1943.

7.30pm, £10 Tickets on sale now.

Museums at Night Quiz

Book now!  7pm, £2 per person, Bar and raffle

Games We Used to Play

Our first Winter Warmer this year looking back at toys and games from the past and a chance to play some retro board games. Free refreshments.

11am  –  3pm, children free, Adults £5 Annual Ticket

Barton Street Boot

Grab a bargain from our Caretaker’s Clearout

10am – 2pm, free

Refreshments pit stop!

Beside the Seaside

Wallow in nostalgic memories of holidays and days out to the seaside when knitted swimming costumes were in vogue and windbreaks were a “must have”.  Grab a tea from the”kiosk” while the kids hook a duck and try their luck in the Pentathlon arcade.

11am – 3pm, children free, Adults £5 Annual Ticket

Barton to Hollywood

Forty years of showbusiness stories with Paul Tate, with Q & A, costume exhibits and guest appearances by Friends at Barton colleagues.

2.30pm, £5 (tickets on sale now)

Wartime Schooldays

Drop in anytime to the Wartime Classroom and meet the Teacher from the 1940s and learn first-hand what it’s like on the Home Front.  The class is expecting a visit from members of Barton’s First Aid Party, along with their 1940s ambulance.  The Holydyke air raid shelter will also be open to visitors too (also Saturday 6 September).

11am – 12pm & 1pm – 2pm, included in £5 Annual Ticket, children free, booking not required

The Teacher is Abroad in the Land

Saturday 14 September

Ian Wolseley explores the travels, trials and tribulations of Samuel Wilderspin, the 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.

2pm.  Free.  Booking advised – available from the Museum in person (Mon – Sat), by phone (01652) 635172, or by email wilderspinschoolmuseum@gmail.com.

Rex Russell Memorial Lecture

Discordant Noises and Effigy Burning in nineteenth century Lincolnshire.  Booking advised.

2pm, £5 advance, £7 otd.  Civic Society members free.

with Dr. Andrew Walker, Chair of the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology.  Click for full details.

A pre lecture buffet lunch is available for just £10.  Booking is essential by 23 August (01652 635172)