
A Recipe for Success – The Fountains Café Project
an insight into the behind the scenes work around the new display
an insight into the behind the scenes work around the new display
This latest blog from our volunteer Ian looks at the Butterfield Brothers as business men – which isn’t a story we’ve told before.
Callum finished his placement with us over the summer, but has written one more blog for us to share with you about the project.
In 2023, Dr Lauren Padgett, Assistant Curator of Collections, worked closely with Keighley Art Club to co-curate a temporary exhibition celebrating the Club’s history, spanning over 100 years.
One of our wonderful volunteers, Ian, has been busy reading and transcribing elements of the Butterfield archive – most recently he’s been piecing together some of the stories that the receipts and other documents can tell us. Here’s a timely one for the festive period…
Assistant Curator of Collections Dr Lauren Padgett has researched Bradford District Museums and Galleries’ history for a new display at Bradford Industrial Museum and tells us more about it here.
This summer, Bradford District Museums and Galleries were delighted to be able to host ‘Hidden Histories’ with Mind The Gap at Bolling Hall, sharing some of the stories from Bradford’s past.
A few weeks ago, one of our Assistant Curators of Collections Dr Lauren Padgett was auditing a box of souvenirs when she fortuitously came across two souvenir books relating to the 1931 Bradford Historical Pageant…
Ian, our ‘Butterfield’ Volunteer spent much of 2020 researching some of the background to the history of the Butterfields.
Although Ian, our ‘Butterfield’ Volunteer has been unable to come in, he’s been busy doing some background research to give context to some of the family history.
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