News from heritage group

WE CLOSED our successful Spring Exhibition about the Barrow Union Workhouse at the end of April and plan to re-open the museum in mid-June with an exhibition looking at the history of quarrying in and around the village over the centuries.

Supporting the group’s research for the exhibition, we have been fortunate to get on a long loan from the County Museum Service a number of quarrying tools and archaeological items that came to light during quarrying on Broad Hill, and these will be on display beside the information panels we have produced.

During Revival (August 13), we will also have for a very short period of time the “Mountsorrel Bucket”, which despite its rather mundane name, is in fact a rare Romano-British artefact dating from around c 200 AD. It was found, along with some other items, at the bottom of a well-shaft and exposed during blasting on Broad Hill in 1892. Due to its very fragile nature, we will only have it on display during the Revival weekend.

The museum is upstairs at the library, and we are normally open on Thursday and Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings when the library is open.

To coincide with the museum reopening, and our new exhibition, the last of our Winter/Spring talks is being