Join us for our monthly free reminiscence sessions – come along, enjoy a cup of tea and share your memories.
Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.
Infants, Juniors and Seniors – these were our rights of passage in childhood. Looking back on those distant days, we perhaps have rosy memories, but there could also be difficult times. Starting Infant school and leaving mum for the first time. Going up into the Juniors, which in my case meant losing some friends as the strict catchment area meant I was on the wrong side of Dowsett Road. And of course the excitement (or trauma) of going to Senior school. This could have bene proudly wearing the uniform of the grammar school, or more casually dressed for the unknown qualities of the secondary modern. What of these stages did you enjoy most? What was it like starting a new stage? And can you remember any difficult times progressing through school?
Come to the Museum and share your memories over a cup of tea.
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Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.
We usually think of women’s work as either looking after the home and family or having an impressive career and being a role model. But for most women, there is the more mundane work that fitted in before marriage and after raising a family. Although that work has never been rated very highly, for the individual women it often proved to be an important part of their life and affirmation of their individuality. It may have been in those years before marriage when they were independently making their way through the world, often making lifelong friends or skills. Or it could have been the story of the enterprising sisters who opened a wool shop in West Green Road once their children had left home, loving the work, the people they met and the self-esteem it gave them. What can you remember of your mother’s work outside the home, and the effect it had on her? Was it drudgery, but one that nevertheless gave a welcome boost to the family income, or was it the only income? Or did she gain from meeting different people and doing different work, perhaps even unpaid voluntary work in the local community or church?