Trowbridge Museum
My blogs
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Curatorial Staff |
| Location | Trowbridge, Wiltshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Trowbridge Museum and Art Gallery needs a new and bigger home! Follow our story here as staff and volunteers fight to give the County Town a museum to rival any other in Wiltshire! |
| Interests | Local history, archaeology, Wiltshire, textile and weaving industries and crafts, arts and crafts, education, local industries, brewing, family life, community groups, church history, societies, famous local people, Isaac Pitman, George Crabbe, costume, toys and games, fossils and minerals, Queen Caroline, long case clocks, barometers, retail history, sports, schools, agriculture, music and entertainment, Victorians, Georgians, woollen cloth production, Industrial Revolution, Spinning Jenny, conservation |
| Favorite Movies | Filmed locally-Far from the Madding Crowd, Dr Doolittle, Barry Linden, The Moonrakers, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, The Titfield Thunderbolt |
| Favorite Books | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale who was kind enough to visit us, Anything by Terry Pratchett who was also kind enough to visit us, The Ratbridge Chronicles by Alan Snow who was kind enough to visit us and anything by local authors including Bel Mooney, Helen Slavin, Michael Marshman, Ken Rogers, Liz Fielding (who's only just arrived but will doubtless visit us at some point) |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
Each time I blinked