Children can discover and create at the Treasure House this summer by taking part in a paper making workshop ‘The Wonderful World of Paper’ on Saturday, 6 August from 10am-1pm. Participants can make their own decorative paper from recycled paper pulp and encrust them with a unique pattern of strands, threads and other delicate materials. Find out how paper from different parts of the world, including Japan and Europe, are…
As we look at it today, the countryside of East Yorkshire is generally a patchwork of fields, containing a variety of crops, from oilseed rape to potatoes. It appears as a timeless scene, depicting the practice of farming that has gone on here for centuries. Although it’s true that East Yorkshire has long been a rural economy, the county has actually changed more than we imagine. A rare book, dating…
For centuries, Beverley Minster and St Mary’s Church have been the enduring landmarks of the town. As buildings and people have come and gone, these towers have remained, an ever present part of the landscape for generations of Beverlonians. Now, it is an undeniable truth that there are fewer people attending church services and so our general knowledge about the Beverley Minster and the church of St Mary’s is in…
A new exhibition at the Treasure House, Beverley, looks at the fascinating world of church bell ringing, researched by members of the Beverley and District Ringing Society and the Beverley Town Handbell Ringers. The sound of church bells is iconic to Britain and this exhibition celebrates this very familiar part of daily life, from the resurgence of ringers after the Second World War to the work being undertaken by the…
Bridlington and the coastline of Holderness has long been a popular tourist destination. Each year thousands of people visit this part of Yorkshire and time and again they return. On Tuesday, 24 June, the East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service celebrate our much loved coastal areas with its third archive cinema event, ‘Bridlington and the East Yorkshire Coast’. The show draws on a variety of footage from the past…
Tracing your family history is a fascinating and rewarding hobby, but it can be difficult to know where to start. A family history beginners day will be held at the Treasure House on Saturday, 9 July to get people started in tracing their family tree. The day will be lead by an expert tutor, who will introduce different ways of finding information about ancestors. Over the course of the day…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding a number of events to celebrate National Family Week, starting with a fun day at the Beverley Treasure House, Beverley, on Tuesday, 31 May. The day runs from 10.30am – 12.30pm with a behind the scenes tour of the museum’s stores and the archive’s conservation workshop. Have a go at the mystery museum objects challenge and creative crafts. This session must be pre-booked….
Tracing your family history is a fascinating and rewarding hobby, but it can be difficult to know where to start. Help is at hand though with a new programme of family history courses and events, which have been launched by the Treasure House. A family history beginners’ day will be held on Saturday, 9 July to get people started in tracing their family tree. The day will be lead by…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council would like to advise residents of opening hours for venues, including leisure centres, libraries, museums, archive services and customer service centres during the Easter holidays and for the Royal wedding. From Friday, 22 April to Monday, 2 May, general opening times will be as follows for the council’s 11 leisure centres. Beverley Leisure Complex For specific pool opening times please check with the facility. Friday…
Forthcoming lectures this month, organised by the council’s museums service and held in the Treasure House, Beverley, are as follows: Thursday 7 April Coins, Tokens and ‘Funny Money’ by Dr. David Marchant, museums registrar. A look at coinage and other coin-like artefacts in the East Riding museum service’s collections. Thursday 14 April Reuben Chappell and other Pierhead Painters by Janet Tierney, curator of Goole Museum. Shipping in the 19th and…
A new mini-display at the Treasure House in Beverley opened this week. The topic of this latest display is the East Riding Yeomanry, a territorial regiment that served in the Palestine campaign and on the western front during the First World War. Drawing on photographs, uniforms and other objects in the museum service’s collections, the display can be found in the café area on the first floor of the Beverley…
Family historians can delve into the murky past of their ancestors thanks to a fascinating archive document. A volume of photographs of convicted offenders dating back to 1875 is now being repaired so that it can be made available to the public by autumn. Work to restore the volume is being done by the document conservation department at East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s archives and local studies service, based in…
East Riding students this morning won awards for their fashion outfits made from discarded net curtains, bras, old shirts and duvets. They were competing in the pre-worn fashion awards sponsored by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to highlight the 3,000 tonnes of clothes sent by residents to landfill last year. This is equivalent to three million pairs of jeans. The winner, Madeleine Burn, Churchill Avenue, Cottingham, an art and design…
A collection of fashions by East Riding students goes on display at the Treasure House, Beverley from 15 February. The outfits have been made from pre-worn clothing, including from charity shops, to show how to give garments a new lease of life. The fashions will be entries submitted by students at East Riding College and Bishop Burton College as part of the council’s competition to highlight the 3,000 tonnes of…
A new exhibition, ‘Inspirational Objects – Nature as Designer,’ will be on display at the Treasure House, Beverley, 12 February – 9 April. This touring exhibition by designer Alison Milner and photographer Steve Speller encourages the visitor to view objects that surround us a little differently – challenging us to think about why we like and enjoy something, where it comes from, how it is made, what it is made…
Tumbled brick gables, dry stone walling, Henry VIII in East Yorkshire and illegitimacy are the topics of the winter lecture programme this year. The lectures are organised by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s archives and local studies service and will be held in the education room on the first floor of the Treasure House, Beverley. (Disabled access is available.) For the first lecture on Monday, 17 January, Dr Joan Kemp…
As part of an ongoing programme to provide more for younger visitors, some new attractions have been added to the museum displays at the Treasure House in Beverley. Designed by a local company, Activation Ltd., based in Ottringham, East Yorkshire, two jigsaw puzzles relating to items in the museum service’s collections have now been made available to visitors. One design shows a recently purchased Roman silver coin hoard (currently on…
A log book, recently discovered in the Borough of Beverley archive collection, provides a snapshot of the experiences of a Beaufighter aircraft during the Second World War. ‘Wings For Victory’ took place during 1943 and was a nationwide fundraising event, part of the National Savings Campaign, designed to raise money to buy planes for the war effort. The town of Beverley did its bit, and managed to raise £383,965 to…
