Random finds from the strandline yesterday, including one of Snow White's dwarfs, vintage hair pins, a needle & lancet, fake foliage, Lego from the spill of 1997, a polar bear, old Smartie lids, toy soldiers and a tiny spanner. Note all the tyre valve dust caps. #EverydayHeritage
Here's a bit of #EverydayHeritage - unlikely an original sign - but an indicator of why the terrain in Wallsend is like that. Moreover, of how the spelling of 'wagon' has changed over the years.
What a great honour for me as Deputy Mayor with my guest JonWhite 🦩 to open the new exhibition Talking Shop Stevenage Museum. Congratulations to all the team who made this a success! Heritage #everydayheritage
A summary of the Everyday Heritage first public workshop and public symposium and the recording of the symposium are now available at the Everyday Heritage website, click here for more information everydayheritage.au/news/everyday-… #everydayheritage
We’re delighted to receive funding from Historic England #EverydayHeritage Grant to explore the decline of heavy industry in West London and the impact on our local community. One of the factories we'll be looking at is the Firestone Tyre Factory, pictured here with our curator!
Puzzled by this find of green milk glass today. Pieces scattered over a wide area a long way from the beach. Would love to know how it got there and what it used to be. Any clues? Lego Lost At Sea #EverydayHeritage
#EverydayHeritage a blocked up entrance to an 1800s drift mine near Prebends Bridge in Durham and one of the few places you can see a coal seam above ground right near by.
@ArchaeoDuck #EverydayHeritage Inside a coke oven at East Hedleyhope. Contemporary reminder of an old industry.
Big Announcement! Drum roll...🥁
We are delighted to receive a grant from Historic England's #EverydayHeritage fund to support our #FountainsOfTales project in #Bradford !
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More York #Heritagetreasure @heritagelottery Joseph Rowntree Foundation on my journey to work #everydayheritage
In #Norfolk we sometimes forget just how spoilt we are when it comes to #EverydayHeritage
An old ruined barn near where I walk the hound, containing stones that once belonged to the mighty Walsingham Priory.
In Norfolk ruins beget ruins.
Newcastle University Centre for Heritage
#EverydayHeritage I started collecting local historic bricks around this time last year. There’s so much of the North East’s heritage in these seemingly mundane objects castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2020/06/bricks…
Don't worry if you missed our first public symposium at NFSA. Here is the recording. 👉everydayheritage.au/news/everyday-… 👈 #everydayheritage
Photo credit: Zora Pang UC Centre for Creative and Cultural Research and Sharpay Wu
Could this be the first Anglo-Polish marriage in Mansfield?
As part of our Capturing Shadows programme we want to uncover stories relating to the Central and Eastern European community in Mansfield, shining a light on this important part of our community
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BACKYARD ARCHAEOLOGY: FINDING THINGS AND TELLING STORIES
The exhibition Canberra Museum and Gallery (16 March – 1 September 2024) tells the story of thousands of small objects that archaeologist Steve Brown collected and excavated from around an ordinary suburban house and garden.
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My #EverydayHeritage is the ephemera you find in your purse/wallet, it can tell so many stories of travel, holidays and how you spend your time.. Newcastle University Centre for Heritage throwback from the Trinkets And Treasures exhibition in 2020 ✨
Our application to Historic England #everydayheritage grants which aims to uncover working class histories has been successful.
Working with our partner Reprezent Project and the local community we will explore and celebrate the rich history of migration in Great Yarmouth.
