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Museums, Exhibitions & Events
February - May 2019
01 West Cheshire Museums IExhibitions
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Events
ExhibitionsMuseum, Chester
Grosvenor
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Located in England’s most picturesque city, the Grosvenor Museum’s
nationally important collections celebrate Chester’s cultural heritage.
The Roman galleries explore life in the Roman fortress of Deva and
display the largest group of inscribed and sculpted Roman stones from
a single site in Britain. The paintings and sculpture in the Art Gallery
span half a millennium of art in Cheshire, while the Silver Gallery
presents the definitive collection of Chester silver. Nine period rooms
illustrate changing fashions in domestic interiors from the 17th
century to the 1920s. Further galleries explore the area’s natural
history and display highlights of the costume and coin collections.
Admission free - donations welcome
Monday – Saturday 10.30am-5pm, Sunday 1-4pm.
Closed Good Friday 19 April..
Support us
The Grosvenor Museum
Society provides vital support
for the museum. Members of
the society enjoy a full and
varied programme of events,
Telephone 01244 972197 including lectures and
Find us on Facebook: Grosvenor Museum and Stretton Watermill outings. See www.grosvenor
Follow us on Twitter @cwacmuseums museumsociety.co.uk.
Website: www.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk
Volunteers
Please see all West Cheshire
Cover: Grosvenor Park Archaeological Excavation
Museums volunteering roles
on the website www.west
cheshiremuseums.co.uk
Disabled access
Wheelchair access to the
ground floor, including
Exhibition Gallery One,
Lecture Theatre and accessible
toilet. No lift to Art Gallery,
Costume Gallery or Exhibition
Gallery Two on first floor.
West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 03
Exhibitions
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Until 24 February Until 22 April Until 7 July
Memento Mori: Dead Normal: Death Unexpected Elegance:
Tombs and Memorials in Everyday Life Female Fashion
in Cheshire Exhibition Gallery One from the 1970s
Exhibition Gallery Two Costume Gallery
As we remember the centenary of The 1970s are
the end of the Great War, this often called ‘the
exhibition presents watercolours, decade that taste
drawings, prints, photographs and forgot’, but the
sculpture showing how Cheshire dresses in this
has commemorated its dead from small exhibition
the Romans to the present day. show that this was far from true.
With tombstones, tomb-chests and From minis to midis and maxis, in
mural slabs, public sculptures, fabrics ranging from cotton and
cenotaphs and a shrine, the corduroy to polyester and fake
imagery of commemoration ranges leopard-skin, with designs by Ossie
across the centuries with knights Clark, Givenchy and Zandra Rhodes,
and their ladies, parents and their we celebrate some of the more
children, skeletons and skulls,
subtle pleasures of 1970s fashion.
heraldry, saints and angels.
Supported by the Megan Gwynne-
5 February – 10 December
Jones Charitable Trust, Grosvenor
Museum Society, Chester Charles Kingsley:
Archaeological Society Christian Socialist and
Natural Historian
Chester Cathedral Library
Open by appointment with George
Brooke on 01244 351432 or
george.brooke@manchester.ac.uk.
No wheelchair access.
This exhibition commemorates the
200th anniversary of the birth of
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). It
explores his activities as a social
reformer, notably his interests in
Death is a universal occurrence – sanitation and clean water and, as
people have always died, and still do. reflected in his famous children’s
The ways we have thought about and novel The Water-Babies, his campaign
interacted with death depend on against the use of child chimney
many factors and have changed over sweeps. The exhibition also engages
time. This exhibition explores the with Kingsley as a natural historian
and associate of Charles Darwin. He
ways different cultures and
became a canon of Chester Cathedral
communities have tried to make sense
in 1869 and established the Chester
of the end of life, mourned their loved Society of Natural Science,
ones, and chosen to remember them. which led directly to the founding of
Supported by Co-op Funeralcare Chester’s Grosvenor Museum.
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Exhibitions
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
2 March – 2 June 20 April – 6 October 10 May – 18 September
David Ferry: Going the Distance: The Grosvenor
The Invader’s Guide to 480 Years of Racing at Museum’s 13th Open
the Museum (and other the Roodee Art Exhibition
places) Coin Gallery Exhibition Gallery One
Exhibition Gallery Two Once likened to racing on ‘green Discover the wealth of local creative
velvet’ by jockey Lester Piggott, talent in this diverse and stimulating
Chester’s hallowed Roodee turf is exhibition, selected from hundreds
uniquely positioned at the heart of of entries in open competition.
the city. As the racecourse Enjoy a kaleidoscope of colours and
celebrates another milestone in its styles, a wide range of techniques
illustrious history, this exhibition and materials, and a rich variety of
presents objects and images from subjects and moods. There will
the Chester Race Company and the definitely be things you will love,
Grosvenor Museum to explore the
and maybe a few you will hate: come
origins and heritage of the oldest
and vote for your favourite!
racecourse still in operation in Great
Britain, if not the world.
Tourists and hobbyists rely on
helpful guides. Picture books on
travel, history, gardening, cooking, Calling All Artists!
knitting and DIY have provided The Grosvenor Museum’s 13th
David Ferry with material for his Open Art Exhibition opens in May
collages that explore our national
2019. This biennial show
heritage. Likewise museums, both
celebrates the best of the region’s
large and small, serve as
contemporary art, providing a
repositories of a shared culture.
Arranged and re-arranged, their diverse and stimulating exhibition
contents can tell different stories. for the public and giving artists in
the area an opportunity to show
Alongside an exhibition of his prints
and books, Ferry will give his own their work. Entry forms are
interpretation of the Grosvenor available after 1 February from
Museum’s collection through Samantha Belsham, telephone
selected interventions. 01244 972197, e-mail
Guest-curated by Stephen Clarke, samantha.belsham@cheshirewest
University of Chester. andchester.gov.uk.
Children’s activities are aimed at 4 to 12 years West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 05
unless otherwise stated. Children must be
accompanied by an adult. Please contact the
Museum Shop 01244 972112 for group bookings. Family Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Fridays 1 February, 1 March, Monday 18 February Wednesday 20 February
5 April, 3 May, 7 June Dead Normal: Daffodil Windmills
Grosvenor Museum A Pop-Up Archive Newstead Gallery
‘Quiet’ Afternoons 2-4pm, drop-in. £2.
Newstead Gallery
“A host, of golden daffodils …
3-4.30pm, drop-in.
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”.
Suggested donation £2.
Bring in the spring by making a
For those who enjoy a ‘quieter’ visit daffodil-style windmill to take home!
to the museum, including people
living with autism, their families
and carers. Our ‘quiet’ afternoons
are themed, with hands-on 10.30am-12.30pm & 2.30-4.30pm,
activities to engage all ages and drop-in. £2.
abilities. Pre-visit orientation pack Horrible Handwriting! Decipher a
available on request from Virginia 17th-century remedy for the plague.
Kettle on 01244 972120 or Cause of death? Ask the coroner,
who’s been recording sudden deaths
virginia.kettle@cheshirewestand
in Chester since 1442! This is a
chester.gov.uk.
hands-on collections experience
with Cheshire Archives.
Mondays 11 February, 11 March,
13 May Tuesday 19 February
Museum Explorers Day of the Dead Mask Thursday 21 February
Natural Cheshire Gallery Making Make your own Shrine
Arrive 9.50am for 10-11am. £2.
Newstead Gallery Newstead Gallery
Especially for ages 2-4, although
2-4pm, drop-in. £2.
younger siblings are also
Join us to make a colourful shrine
welcome. Come and explore in celebration of your personal
nature’s changing seasons and heroes who have helped make
discover lots of exciting things your life a pleasure to live.
from the past through play, crafts,
stories and songs.
2-4pm, drop-in. £2.
Free, suggested donation £1.50.
El Día de los Muertos – the Day of the
Dead – when lost loved ones are
remembered and their lives
celebrated by donning colourful
clothes and painting skulls on faces.
Come and make your own Day of the
Dead inspired mask to take home.
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Family Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Tuesday 2, Saturday 6, Thursday 4, Sunday 7, Tuesday 9 April
Thursday 11, Sunday 14 April Wednesday 10, Saturday 13 April Ghost Dogs
Disney Film Classic: Disney Film Classic: Newstead Gallery
Alice in Wonderland Pinocchio (1940) 12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
(1951) Lecture Theatre Take a look at our Dead Normal
Lecture Theatre 11am-12.30pm (2-3.30pm on exhibition, then join us to make
Sunday). Free, but booking your very own spooky ghost dog.
11am-12.15pm (2-3.15pm on
essential through
Sunday). Free, but booking
experiencechester.co.uk.
essential through
When the woodworker Geppetto
experiencechester.co.uk.
sees a falling star, he wishes that
Lewis Carroll's fantasy comes to
Pinocchio – the puppet he has just
life in this animated classic.
finished making – could become a
When Alice falls down a rabbit
real boy. That night, the Blue Fairy
hole, she enters a magical world
grants Geppetto's wish and asks
where she encounters an odd
Jiminy Cricket to serve as the
assortment of characters,
wooden boy's conscience. But the
including the grinning Cheshire
naive and trusting Pinocchio falls
Cat and the goofy Mad Hatter. Wednesday 10 April
into the clutches of the wicked
When Alice ends up in the court
of the tyrannical Queen of Hearts,
Honest John, who leads him astray Butterfly Planters
to Pleasure Island. Newstead Gallery
she must stay on the ruler's good
side – or risk losing her head. Brought to you by CH1 Chester BID 12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
Brought to you by CH1 Chester BID Discover how to make your garden or
school playground a flutterby-
Thursday 2 April butterfly friendly zone! Sow your
Fantastic Fossils seedlings in pots made of recycled
Newstead Gallery material, and make sun-catcher
12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2. butterfly labels to help you
remember the names of your plants.
Come and learn about uncovering
fossils and then make your very
own fossil to take home. Thursday 11 April
Paper Nests
Wednesday 3 April Newstead Gallery
Fish Houses 12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
Newstead Gallery With spring upon us, come and join
12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2. us in making a paper nest complete
Inspired by David Ferry’s wonderfully with your very own bird to sit in it.
quirky images, make a 3D shadow
box picture of fish swimming through
the rooms of a country house.
Thursday 4 April
Flower Wreaths
Newstead Gallery
12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
As beautiful spring flowers are
starting to bloom, join us in making
your very own flower wreaths.
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Family Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Saturday 20 April Saturday 25 May Tuesday 28 May
Something to Do at the Chester Heritage Festival Silly Storybooks
Weekend Launch: Roman Day Newstead Gallery
Newstead Gallery Chester Racecourse 12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
11am-1pm. £2, includes all David Ferry makes surreal books by
activities, proceeds to the sticking pictures from one type of
Grosvenor Museum Youth Panel. book onto the pages of another.
Try an assortment of things you might Come and make your own little book
not have done before, with activities filled with pictures you’ve chosen
coming from a 1960s book designed and cut out of magazines, and write a
to spark the imagination in an age story to go with the pictures.
before computers. There’ll be making
a mouse out of a handkerchief, Wednesday 29 May
‘cooking’ peppermint creams, butterfly The Terrific Triassic
identification using examples from
Newstead Gallery
the museum’s collections, and a
12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
chance to stroke a giant white snail.
A strange alien creature wends its way
across a barren scarlet desert …
Thursday 2 – Friday 31 May welcome to Cheshire in the Terrific
Grosvenor Park Triassic era! Check out some of the
Archaeological weird creatures and habitats of the era,
and experiment to discover how that
Excavation distant past has shaped our present.
Grosvenor Park
Cheshire West and Chester Council’s
Wednesday 29 May
archaeologists, in partnership with
the University of Chester, are running Grosvenor Park
their annual training excavation for Archaeological
2nd year archaeology students in 11.30am-6pm.
Grosvenor Park. Visitors are
Excavation: Open
This year’s Heritage Festival will be
welcome, and the students will be on launched at the Roman Day on
Afternoon
hand during weekdays (except Bank Britain’s oldest racecourse, Grosvenor Park
Holidays), to tell you about the park’s established in 1539. At this family- 1-4.30pm, drop-in. Free.
Roman and medieval archaeology. friendly race day, youngsters can Come and see what the University of
learn fascinating facts about their Chester’s archaeology students have
Cestrian ancestors and witness discovered this year in Grosvenor
spectacular sporting displays both on Park, with site tours and a display of
and off the track. Chester Racecourse, objects found by the students.
the event sponsor, is giving Chester
residents in postcodes CH1-CH4, and Thursday 30 May
holders of this brochure, a half-price
discount when tickets are purchased Cupcakes!
in person at the Chester Racecourse Newstead Gallery
Box Office: for terms and conditions 12.30-2.30pm, drop-in. £2.
visit www.chester- Inspired by the cakes in David
races.com/romanday. Ferry’s book Cake Walking in
Scotland, decorate – and eat! –
some cupcakes.
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Adult Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Every day of the year Tuesday 12 February Thursday 14 February
Guided Walking Tours of An Apt Person for the Make Do and Mend!
Chester with the Guild of Job: The Work of an Lecture Theatre
Chester Tour Guides Anatomical Pathology 3-4.30pm, drop in. Donation £2.
Meet at the Visitor Information Join us for an afternoon of making,
Centre, Town Hall Square
Technician doing and mending, inspired by the
Lecture Theatre creative resourcefulness of people
10.30am-12noon (plus 2-3.30pm during wartime. Enjoy 1940s-themed
Easter – October). £8, £7 7.30-8.30pm. Donation £3.
refreshments and a film show. Make
concessions, tickets from guide. Jane Ruskin began her career as an
a simple craft item to take home.
www.chestertours.org.uk. APT in 1980, aged just seventeen.
This activity is aimed at older people,
Since then she has cared for many
Your guide will lead you on a those living with dementia, and their
thousands of deceased patients,
captivating journey through 2,000 families and carers.
run a busy mortuary single-handed,
years of history, taking in all the main assisted in many murder
sites along the way, including the investigations, and sought to
Rows, Walls, River and the exterior of further aesthetic developments in
the Cathedral. Discover Chester’s rich the post-mortem process. Her
heritage, beginning in Roman times, philosophy is that everyone,
through the vibrant period of medieval regardless of rank or station in life,
expansion, the desperation of the Civil is entitled to respect and the best
War, Georgian elegance and Victorian of care when their life has ended.
revival, right up to the present day. Join Jane for a fascinating talk
about her career.
Wednesday 13 February
My Funny Valentine
Lecture Theatre
7.30-9pm. £10, with a free drink:
tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/
westcheshiremuseums. Friday 15 February
Join us for a romantic night with Tombs and Memorials in
a difference! Comedians from up
Thursdays 24 January, 7 & 21 and down the country will Chester Cathedral
February, 7 & 21 March, 4 &18 become professors and comment Meet at Chester Cathedral
April, 2, 16 & 30 May on the museum’s collections, admissions desk in the Undercroft
filling you in on what they
Café Crafts actually are. The catch? They
11am-12noon. £5, pay on the door
Museum Café or in advance on 01244 500959.
have never seen any of the slides
2-4pm. £3, including tea or coffee. before and will be making up on Join Nick Fry, the cathedral’s
Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance the spot. It’s Time Team meets Bedesman, for a look at some of the
knitwear designer and author of Who’s Line is it Anyway and memorials and those
Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, promises to be a hilarious night. commemorated in Chester
for an afternoon of craft and chat in Cathedral, ranging from
our 1940s café. Bring along your tobacconists, aristocrats and candle
merchants to the armed services
own project or feel free to join in
and everything in between. The
with one of ours. Everyone is
memorials have many different
welcome – whether you’re a master stories to tell, from the heart-
or a beginner, Tracey will be on breaking to the light-hearted, but
hand to help. all tell us something of their times.
West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 09
Adult Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Saturday 16 February Wednesday 13 March Wednesday 20 March
A Loop in Time: The The Invader’s Guide to The Public Archaeology
Story of Puddington David Ferry of Frontiers and
Lecture Theatre Lecture Theatre Borderlands:
2-3pm. Donation £3. 2.30-3.30pm. £3, pay at the door, The 4th University of
Puddington is Chester’s furthest includes a hot drink. Chester Archaeology
outpost. Writer and broadcaster Stephen Clarke, Lecturer in Critical Student Conference
Gee Williams, co-author of A Loop and Contextual Studies at the Lecture Theatre
in Time, explores the 5,000 year University of Chester and guest 9am-5pm. Donation £3.
survival of this strange and curator of the David Ferry From Hadrian’s Wall to Offa’s Dyke,
secretive place. Sir Gawain in exhibition, gives an overview of from the Great Wall of China to the
pursuit of his Green Knight, David’s career and work, from Berlin Wall, this conference explores
Liverpool slavers, one real saint, a Blackpool to London to President of the public archaeology of frontiers
great scientist, and a 20th-century the Royal Society of Painter- and borderlands. University of
Printmakers. Chester students and guest speakers
style icon: why were they all here? examine how archaeologists and
archaeological research on frontiers
Friday 22 February and borderlands must navigate
complex relationships and political
Life Masks discourses with communities both
Education Workroom digital and tangible, contributing to
10.30am-12.30pm & 2.30-4.30pm. how frontiers are conserved,
managed and interpreted.
Donation £3: book at
www.ticketsource.co.uk/
Wednesday 20 March
westcheshiremuseums.
Making masks of a dead person’s
Victorian Cemeteries
face used to be a popular way to
Lecture Theatre
7.30-8.30pm. Chester Civic Trust
remember them. Join the staff of members free, non-members £5.
Co-op Funeralcare to make and take The Victorians celebrated death as
home your own ‘Life Mask’, a part of human experience. Join
modelled on your own face. Mike Higginbottom to discover the
great Victorian cemeteries, which
Thursday 7 March contain some of the most evocative
and moving examples of the
An Audience with an Saturday 16 March period’s architecture, landscaping,
Undertaker Disabled Access Day statuary and monumental art, and
Ground Floor Galleries which document beliefs, attitudes
Lecture Theatre and taste as well as lives.
10.30am-5pm, drop-in. Donation £3.
7-8pm. Donation £3. A Chester Civic Trust event
Join us for scheduled talks
Co-op Funeralcare is the largest
throughout the day about the
funeral director in the United
collections on display in the less
Kingdom, and has been serving accessible galleries – see
families in the community for www.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk for
decades. This talk, by a Senior times. There will be objects from the
Funeral Director, explores the collections available for handling,
history of the company and its suitable for all ages and abilities, plus
varied daily work. dementia and autism friendly areas.
10 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Adult Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Saturday 23 March Thursday 28 March Thursday 11 April
Art and Architecture of Ashes into Glass: The Story of the Hospice
Liverpool: Lecture by Contemporary of the Good Shepherd
Adrian Sumner Commemorative Lecture Theatre
Lecture Theatre Jewellery 7.30-8.30pm. Donation £3.
2-3.15pm. £5, refreshments Lecture Theatre The Hospice of the Good Shepherd,
included: tickets from which provides palliative and end of
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheshire- life care to people living with a
west-voluntary-arts-network. progressive life limiting illness, is
celebrating its 30th anniversary this
The Pool of Life, as Jung called it,
year. Liz Taylor charts the history of
has sprung back to life after a
this vital organisation and addresses
period of trials and tribulations, to
look like the world-class city that it some of the current issues faced
has always been. This lecture looks when caring for people in this setting.
7-8.30pm. Donation £3.
at buildings and collections, art and Liz is the Director of Clinical Services
Ashes into Glass is the leading at the hospice, and has over 20 years
artists, and the personalities and
spirit which make the city unique creator of ashes jewellery in the of nursing experience in cancer and
and endlessly surprising. United Kingdom and worldwide. palliative care services in hospital,
All proceeds to the Cheshire West They produce fine jewellery for you hospice and community settings.
Voluntary Arts Network to connect with your loved one by
wearing it or just holding it in your Wednesday 17 April
hand. Join Ashes into Glass to hear
how they create their specialist
Death is Not the End:
range of jewellery and glassware, Preparing for Eternity
with refreshments provided by Co- in Ancient Egypt
op Funeralcare. Lecture Theatre
2-3pm. Donation £3.
Wednesday 3 April The modern perception of ancient
Carry On with Cake Egypt is that its inhabitants were
morbidly obsessed with death.
Lecture Theatre
However, it is more accurate to see
1.30-3.30pm. £5, includes cake and
them as obsessed with life, and
tea: tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk
willing to do whatever it took – be
/westcheshiremuseums. that removing the brain using a
Wednesday 27 March Join us for Carry On Henry, a towering hook up the nose of a corpse, or
Dead Normal: example of bawdy British humour filling a tomb with magical figures
featuring a Henry VIII very loosely to be with you in the afterlife – to
A Pop-Up Archive based on historical fact. Before the ensure they existed for eternity.
Lecture Theatre film there will be a short talk by
10.30am-12.30pm & 2.30-4.30pm, Stephen Clarke, Lecturer in Critical and
drop-in. £2. Contextual Studies at the University of
Horrible Handwriting! Decipher a Chester and curator of our David Ferry
17th-century remedy for the exhibition, looking at the importance
plague. Cause of death? Ask the of farce in British culture and David’s
coroner, who’s been recording love of the genre. There will also be
sudden deaths in Chester since cakes available, as featured in David’s
1442! This is a hands-on series Cake Walking in Scotland.
collections experience with Presented in partnership with CH1
Cheshire Archives. Chester BIDWest Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 11
Adult Events
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Wednesday 24 April Wednesday 22 May Wednesday 29 May
Daphne in the Dark Cheshire’s Civil War: North Wales’s Civil
Lecture Theatre three months of action, War: there’s a war on,
7-9.30pm. £8, includes a glass of three years of stalemate but where’s the
wine: tickets from
Lecture Theatre fighting?
www.ticketsource.co.uk/westcheshire
1-2pm. £3, pay at the door. Lecture Theatre
museums.
In the second of three lectures
Join us for an atmospheric showing
examining the English civil war of
in a darkened museum of the 1973
1642-46 in this region, Professor
thriller Don’t Look Now, based on
Peter Gaunt explores the civil war
Daphne du Maurier’s short story within Cheshire. He assesses the key
and starring Julie Christie and aspects of the county’s war and in
Donald Sutherland. Before the film particular how and why, after much
there will be a short talk by of the county had been conquered
Stephen Clarke, Lecturer in Critical and secured by parliament early in
and Contextual Studies at the the conflict, the war then turned out
University of Chester and curator of to be something of a long-drawn-out
our David Ferry exhibition, on and rather static stalemate.
David’s residency in Venice and A University of Chester event
how the film and city inspired his
work. Thursday 23 May
Presented in partnership with CH1
Chester BID Britain in the Fifties
Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 15 May 3-4.30pm, drop-in.
Suggested donation £2.
Chester’s Civil War: A chance to enjoy a nostalgic look
regional capital or at Britain during the 1950s in the
comfort of our Lecture Theatre.
damp squib? Film show, plus handling session
Lecture Theatre with artefacts from the decade and 1-2pm. £3, pay at the door.
1-2pm. £3, pay at the door. 1950s-themed refreshements.
In the third of three lectures
This activity is aimed at older
In the first of three lectures examining the English civil war of
people, those living with dementia,
examining the English civil war of their families and carers. 1642-46 in this region, Professor
1642-46 in this region, Professor Peter Gaunt looks west, across the
Peter Gaunt explores Chester as a border, to reassess the standing
royalist stronghold and and nature of royalism in northern
parliamentarian objective. He and mid Wales. He examines the
assesses the role which the city very different experience of the
might have played, perhaps should war there and explores how
have played and in reality actually parliament and parliamentarian
did play in the war waged by the generals based in neighbouring
two sides, as seen from (often Cheshire and Shropshire eventually
starkly differing) local, regional and managed to quell and overcome
national perspectives. North Walian royalism.
A University of Chester event A University of Chester event12 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
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and its machinery. One of our
Please see all West Cheshire Admission
millers will then take you on a
Museums volunteering roles
fascinating tour to see the ancient on the website Cash only. Adult £3.50, child £1.80.
wooden machinery in action, listen www.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk Charges may rise in April.
to stories, and have a go at milling
grain. Bring a picnic and enjoy the April: Weekends and Bank Holiday
idyllic rural setting with beautiful Disabled access Monday 1-5pm. May to August:
views of the pond and mill Accessible toilet, ramp to first floor Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday
buildings. of mill. Mondays 1-5pm.
Exhibition Events
20 May – 29 September Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 May
Crafting the Woods: Get Creative:
Water and Wildlife Water and Wildlife
Crafters, young and old, are invited to 1-5pm, drop in. £2
create a menagerie of creatures, flora
and fauna which will nestle in the
magical woodland of Stretton for the
summer: knitted ladybirds, felted
foxes and turned toadstools have all
been spotted here. To find out how
to exhibit, email artswest@
cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Make your own crafted creature to
join the Crafting the Woods
exhibition of birds, bees, butterflies,
fish, frogs, dragonflies – let your
imagination run wild! This is part of
the BBC’s Get Creative campaign, and
your contribution to the exhibition
will be on display all summer.14 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse
162 London Road, Northwich, CW9 8AB
Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse is full of displays and tales of the
history and industry of West Cheshire. The stories are told through
films, reconstructions, models and vivid displays of intriguing
artefacts, which relate to local industry, market towns, transport,
archaeology, and the building’s history as the Northwich Union
Workhouse. An exhibition in the former workhouse
schoolroom explores life for the paupers. Around the rest of
the museum you can find out about workhouse food, discover
some of the people who lived here, and visit the recreated
Master’s sitting room.
Admission Support us
Adult £3.50, concession £2.50, child £1.80. Other ticket options The Friends of Weaver Hall offer
available. Free access to temporary exhibitions (donations welcome) vital support for the museum.
and the coffee shop and gift shop. Charges may rise in April. Friends enjoy a full and varied
Tuesday – Friday, school holiday Mondays, Good Friday & Bank programme of events including
Holiday Mondays 10am-5pm, Saturday & Sunday 2-5pm. evening talks and film nights. See
www.fowhm.org.uk.
Volunteers
Please see all West Cheshire
Museums volunteering roles on the
website www.westcheshire
museums.co.uk
Disabled access
Wheelchair access is available
throughout the museum.
Telephone 01606 271640
Find us on Facebook: Weaver Hall Museum and Lion Salt Works
Follow us on Twitter @cwacmuseums
Website: www.westcheshiremuseums.co.ukWest Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 15
Exhibitions & Family Events
Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse, Northwich
Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 April
Exhibitions Family Events Paint, Hide and Find a
1 February – 10 March Children’s activities are aimed at 4
to 12 years unless otherwise stated.
Rock
LGBT History Month Children must be accompanied by an
adult. Please contact 01606 271640
for group bookings
Saturday 9 February
Chinese New Year
2-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child.
Join us for a fun afternoon of crafts
to celebrate Chinese New Year. 10am-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child.
Decorate a stone and hide it in the
museum grounds for someone else
to find.
Following on from last year’s
successful event, Weaver Hall
Wednesday 10 &
Museum hosts another exhibition Thursday 11 April
and film festival organised by Silver
Rainbows, a social network for Wind Chimes
older lesbian, gay, bisexual and 10am-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child.
trans people in Cheshire. Look out Make a wind chime from recycled
for details nearer the time at and found materials..
Wednesday 20 &
www.silverrainbows.com. Thursday 21 February
16 March – 9 June
Victorian Toys
10am-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child.
Northwich Photographic Victorian children had to make their
Society own toys out of materials they had
An exhibition by local amateur at home. Come and create your own
photographers featuring images of the toy box.
surrounding area. Northwich
Photographic society holds regular
Saturday 20 April
meetings and exhibitions in the town.
Fabergé Eggs
2-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child.
Come along to the museum and
make your own Fabergé-style egg..16 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Family & Adult Events
Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse, Northwich
Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 May Friday 15 February Wednesday 27 February
Pop Bottle Rockets Kissing Frogs Beneath Croxton’s Field
10am-4pm, drop-in. £2 per child. 7.30-8.40pm. £10, book at the 3-4pm. £3, complimentary tea &
museum or at www.eventbrite.co.uk. coffee from 2.30pm.
3-2-1 blast off! Back by popular
demand! Make a rocket to launch in Meet Jessica Ramsbottom – or Jess Join West Cheshire Museums’ very
the museum grounds.. to her friends. She’s just turned 30, own Phil Cox to find out how the
has no children, stuck in a dead-end community project in Holt
job and is still single. In the uncovered potential remains of a
whirlwind world of speed dating, 3rd-century Roman settlement,
online dating and one night stands, previously lying undiscovered for
does her perfect man really exist? centuries.
Will Jess find the man of her
dreams, or will she be the only one
of her friends destined for the
shelf? This excruicatingly funny
journey of love, loss and self-
Adult Events discovery, set to a backdrop of
classic hits from the 80s, is
Fridays 25 January, 22 February, performed by Sophie Osborne.
29 March, 26 April, 31 May
Craft and Chat
10.30am-12.30pm. £3, including
tea or coffee.
Meet like-minded crafters, learn a new
skill, and enjoy a cup of tea in the
relaxed setting of Weaver Hall
Museum’s café. There will be
demonstrations and projects to work
on. Suitable for all levels of experience.
Thursday 28 February
Friends Film Night
‘Rabbit Proof Fence’
7 for 7.30-9.05pm. £5 (Friends of
Weaver Hall £4), book at the
museum.
Three little girls. Snatched from
their mothers' arms. Spirited 1,500
miles away. Denied their very
identity. Forced to adapt to a
strange new world. They will
attempt the impossible. A daring
escape. A run from the authorities.
Their one hope, find the rabbit-
proof fence that might just guide
them home.
A Friends of Weaver Hall eventWest Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 17
Adult Events
Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse, Northwich
Wednesday 27 March Wednesday 24 April Saturday 11 May
The Renowned Robert The History Of The Riot Act
Lenkiewicz Puddington 3-4pm. Free, but book on 01606
271640.
3-4pm. £3, complimentary tea &
On 12 August 1842 Lancashire
coffee from 2.30pm.
factory workers marched in protest
Puddington, a small Cheshire
at appalling pay and conditions.
village, occupies a site that’s been Reaching Preston’s Lune Street they
inhabited for over 5,000 years. were confronted by armed soldiers
Writer and broadcaster Gee and read the Riot Act. By 13 August
Williams, co-author of A Loop in seven men had been shot and
Time: The Story of Puddington, injured and four were dead. This
explores in words and images this intimate and simply-staged
strange and mysterious little place. historical piece is performed by two
Sir Gawain in pursuit of his Green actors and produced by Breathe
Knight, Liverpool slavers, one real Out Theatre.
saint, a great scientist, and a 20th-
century style icon: why were they
all here?
3-4pm. £3, complimentary tea &
coffee from 2.30pm.
Join Peter J. Wildin to find out all
about Robert Lenkiewicz, a post-
War portrait painter who became
notorious for his bohemian lifestyle Wednesday 29 May
and reputation as an anti- Congleton: A Town of
Establishment artist.
Surprises
3-4pm. £3, complimentary tea &
Thursday 28 March
coffee from 2.30pm.
Friends Film Night This talk with Ian Doughty from
‘Amazing Grace’ Congleton Museum will uncover
7 for 7.30-9.30pm. £5 (Friends of some of the town’s quirkier historical
Weaver Hall £4), book at the facts. Discover how Congleton is
Thursday 25 April connected to the death of Charles I,
museum.
Amazing Grace depicts the life of Friends Film Night the imprisonment of Napoleon, the
Bank of England, and the
the 18th-century politician William ‘Funny Cow’ Representation of the People Act of
Wilberforce, one of the youngest 7 for 7.30-9.15pm. £5 (Friends of 1918.
ever members of Parliament, whose Weaver Hall £4), book at the
legacy will be remembered for
museum.
centuries. At the age of just 21, he
A comedian, played by Maxine
found the courage to take on the
British Empire in order to abolish Peake, uses her troubled past as
slavery, over time becoming allies material for her stand-up routine,
with Prime Minister William Pitt as trying to rise up through the
the two men fought together to put comedy circuit by playing Northern
an end to this inhuman trade. England's working men's clubs.
A Friends of Weaver Hall event A Friends of Weaver Hall event18 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Lion Salt Works, Northwich
Ollershaw Lane, Marston, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 6ES
The Lion Salt Works is a restored historic open-pan salt making site in the village of Marston, beside
the Trent and Mersey Canal and close to the remarkable Anderton Boat Lift. This £10 million project
opened in 2015 and was voted the UK's Best Heritage project in the 2016 National Lottery Awards.
It offers a fascinating journey through the life of the country’s
last open-pan salt works. When exploring the site and its
restored buildings, you will discover how the Salt Works
operated and the impact of salt on mid-Cheshire’s people,
economy and landscape. Your visit will also set the scene
for a wider exploration of the footpaths, waterways and
attractions of the adjacent Northwich Woodlands and the
Weaver Valley.
Admission
Adult £6.25, concession £5.50, child £4. Other ticket
options available. Free access to café, gift shop, butterfly garden,
play area, canal towpath and car park. Charges may rise in April.
Museum open Tuesday – Sunday, Good Friday & Bank Holiday
Mondays 10.30am-5pm. Play area and butterfly garden open daily
9am-5.20pm.
Support us
The Lion Salt Works Trust offers
vital support including technical
and historical advice, project and
General Enquiries 01606 275066 grounds development, visitor
Room Hire and Group Bookings 01606 275040 tours and a regular publication.
Find us on Facebook: Weaver Hall Museum and Lion Salt Works To become a Saltie contact
Follow us on Twitter @cwacmuseums ngkhunt21@gmail.com.
Website: www.westcheshiremuseums.co.uk
Volunteers
Please see all West Cheshire
Museums volunteering roles on
the website www.westcheshire
museums.co.uk.
Disabled access
Wheelchair access is available
across the whole site.West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 19
Exhibitions & Family Events
Lion Salt Works, Northwich
Sunday 10 March
Exhibitions Family Events ‘Stripey Honey is Very
Until 17 February Children’s activities are aimed at 4 Yummy’ by Mashi
Visual Arts Cheshire to 12 years unless otherwise stated. Theatre
presents Twelve Images Children must be accompanied
of Northwich by an adult. Please contact
01606 271640 for group bookings.
Lion Salt Works is proud to be
showcasing the twelve artworks There is a suggested donation or
that feature in Visual Arts charge for most events and
Cheshire’s 2019 Northwich activities. If you would also like to
calendar. Produced by local artists, go round the Lion Salt Works
these captivating images offer museum and historic core, usual
viewers twelve scenes of Northwich admission charges apply.
and surrounds, presenting the
region’s beautiful landscapes and Fridays 1, 8, 15 February &
incredible industrial heritage. 1, 8 March
Little Lions Explorer Club
9.15-10.15am. Donation £3.
Calling all Little Lions to discover,
play and create. Come and join our
Early Years Explorer Club, aimed at
ages 2-4 (younger siblings
welcome). Loads of exciting
activities, stories and popular 11-11.50am. Adult £6.50, under-17
songs. Bring your old clothes – £4.50, family tickets available: book
things might get messy!. at Lion Salt Works in person or on
01606 275066 or visit
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheshire
5 March – 27 May ruraltouringarts.
Wartime Industry and Aimed at families with children
aged 5-10, this touching and funny
Working Women in story tells how tigers, bees and
Cheshire, 1914-1950 honey collectors learn to live and
During the first half of the 20th play together. As fisher-women
century, Britain’s involvement in the leave their boats on the river to
two World Wars led to a great shortage collect honey, they look out for
of industrial and mechanical labourers, Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20
February roaming tigers. They climb high
necessitating a significant shift in the into the trees to reach the giant
gender balance of the industrial Salt Sacks Printing bees, but what happens when the
workplace. Curated by Joseph Roberts, 10.30am-12.30pm & 2-4pm, drop-in. tigers lend them a paw? Adventure
this exhibition explores Cheshire’s
£2. into the jungle with music, song,
important contribution to the war
Salt from the Lion Salt Works went all dance and puppetry, exploring the
effort, the stories of the valiant women
who kept the county (and country) over the world, and special sacks lives of endangered species who
going during the conflicts, and their were made for each country. Choose unite to save their homes.
continued contribution to local industry somewhere in the world and design a Supported by Cheshire Rural Touring
in the aftermath of war and beyond. salt sack based on that country. Arts20 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Family Events
Lion Salt Works, Northwich
Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 April Saturday 25, Sunday 26 & Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 June
Sprouting Spring Monday 27 May Heritage Transport
10.30am-12.30pm & 2-4pm, Live and Local presents Festival
drop-in. £2. a Bank Holiday Bonanza 10.30am-5pm.
11am-5pm. Free. Suggested donation £2.
Spring is here, and we have lots of
fun activities linked to the nature Family festival and fun day with This evocative festival of a bygone
and wildlife around Lion Salt Works. outdoor stage, live music, children’s era gives visitors an opportunity to
Come and join us as we celebrate activities, stalls, refreshments, hot imagine what vintage transport
the start of spring. food and much more. Enjoy the would have been like in its heyday.
Bank Holiday at this traditional You can enjoy a range of vehicles
village festival with a contemporary from the 19th and 20th centuries,
twist, featuring local live bands including traction engines,
throughout the day. miniature steam engines, working
narrow boats, vintage cars and
commercial vehicles. There is also
a series of themed children’s
activities over the weekend.
Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 April
Run Away to the Circus
10.30am-12.30pm & 2-4pm,
drop-in. £2.
To celebrate the release of Dumbo,
come and take part in some crafts
all about circus fun!
Tuesday 28 & Wednesday 29 May
Amaze by Science!
10.30am-12.30pm & 2-4pm,
drop-in. £2.
Embrace your inner Mad Scientist!
Excitement, intrigue and lots of
fascinating experiments
guaranteed!
Sunday 19 May
Salt Sunday:
A Celebration of Salt
12.30-5pm. Donation £3.
In partnership with the Salt of the
Earth network, enjoy this family-
friendly mix of interactive art, salt-
making, music, science demos, talks
and performances.
www.saltoftheearthnetwork.net.West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 21
Adult Events
Lion Salt Works, Northwich
Saturday 2 March Saturday 11 May
Adult Events ‘Joan and Jimmy’ by The Salt Works
Saturday 23 February Blaize Theatre Sessions: Rod Clements
The Salt Works 7.30pm-9.20pm. Adult £9.50,
under-17 £6.50, family tickets
& Ian Thompson
Sessions: Sam Kelly & available (show suitable for 12+):
Jamie Francis book at Lion Salt Works in person
7.30-10.30pm. £12.50, to book or on 01606 275066 or visit
email lswsessions@gmail.com or www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheshire
ring 07796 175437. ruraltouringarts.
Joan and Jimmy tells the story of
“A captivating performer, Sam
Joan Littlewood and her husband
Kelly has one of the best young Ewan MacColl (aka Jimmy Miller)
male voices in British acoustic from 1945 to 1952. They founded
roots music.” Sam Kelly and Jamie Theatre Workshop in Kendal with a
Francis have gained a reputation travelling troupe of storytellers and
for an incredibly high class and outlaws committed to the
dynamic live show, becoming firm overthrow of the established order
favourites at venues and festivals. where the rich got richer and the
poor got austerity. Known as the
Sam’s fascination with music
‘Mother of Modern Theatre’,
shines through, and his passion for
Littlewood devoted her life to
discovering and re-kindling his community and political theatre.
musical heritage has gained him Supported by Cheshire Rural Touring
the respect of peers and audiences Arts 7.30-10.30pm. £12.50, to book
worldwide. email lswsessions@gmail.com or
Saturday 16 March ring 07796 175437.
Signs of Spring: Founder member of folk-rock
legend Lindisfarne, Rod Clements
Photography Walk & wrote their first chart hit Meet Me
Workshop On The Corner, which became an
11am-4pm. £20, pay on the day or instant classic. Rod has also
online at pursued solo projects and
www.derekrandallphotography/ collaborations with other eminent
workshops. musicians and songwriters,
Take advantage of the fantastic including Raph McTell, Bert Jansch,
biodiversity of Northwich in this Michael Chapman and Thea
mainly field-based session. The Gilmore. In recent years, Rod has
season’s change brings a wealth of
emerged as a solo artist and
subjects that can be explored through
respected slide guitar player, and
your lens. This session will use the
arrival of spring to explore effective he’ll be joined tonight by Ian
visualisation and image-craft. The Thomson on double bass to play
walk and workshop are suitable for all the classic songs Rod has written
levels of ability and equipment, over the decades for Lindisfarne
including your camera-phone. and many others.22 West Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events
Diary
• Friday 15 March
Key Tombs and Memorials in Chester
Cathedral • Friday 1
Little Lions
• Grosvenor Museum • Friday 15 • ‘Quiet’
Friday 1
• Stretton Watermill Kissing Frogs Afternoon
• Workhouse
Weaver Hall Museum &
• Saturday 16 • Saturday 2
Joan and Jimmy
The Story of Puddington
• Lion Salt Works • Thursday 7
• Monday 18
Dead Normal: A Pop-Up Archive
Café Crafts
January
• AnThursday 7
Audience with an Undertaker
• Tuesday 19
• Little
• Thursday 24
Café Crafts
Salt Sacks Printing Friday 8
Lions
• Craft
Friday 25 • Tuesday 19
Day of the Dead Mask Making • Sunday 10
Stripey Honey is Very Yummy
and Chat
• Wednesday
Victorian Toys
20 • Museum
Monday 11
Explorers
February
• Little
Friday 1 • Wednesday 20 • Wednesday 13
The Invader’s Guide to David
Lions Salt Sacks Printing Ferry
• ‘Quiet’
Friday 1
Afternoon
• Wednesday 20
Daffodil Windmills
• Disabled
Saturday 16
Access Day
• Thursday 7 • Thursday 21 • Saturday 16
Photography Walk & Workshop
Café Crafts Victorian Toys
• Wednesday 20
The Public Archaeology of
• Friday 8
Little Lions
• Thursday 21
Make your own Shrine
Frontiers and Borderlands
• Victorian
Wednesday 20
• Saturday 9 • Thursday 21 Cemeteries
Chinese New Year Café Crafts
• Café
Thursday 21
Crafts
• Monday 11
Museum Explorers
• Friday 22
Life Masks • Saturday 23
Art and Achitecture of Liverpool
• The
Tuesday 12
Work of an Anatomical
• Friday 22
Craft and Chat • Dead
Wednesday 27
Normal: A Pop-Up Archive
Pathology Technician
• Saturday 23 • Wednesday 27
• Wednesday 13 Sam Kelly & Jamie Francis The Renowned Robert Lenkiewicz
My Funny Valentine
• Wednesday 27 • Thursday 28
Contemporary Commemorative
• Thursday 14
Make Do and Mend!
Beneath Croxton’s Field Jewellery
• Thursday 28 • Film:
Thursday 28
Amazing Grace
• Friday 15 Film: Rabbit Proof Fence
Little Lions
• Friday 29
Craft and ChatWest Cheshire Museums Exhibitions and Events 23
Diary
April • Thursday
Paper Nests
11 • Sunday
Salt Sunday
19
• Tuesday 2
Sprouting Spring • Thursday 11 • Wednesday 22
The Story of the Hospice of the Cheshire’s Civil War
• Tuesday 2
Film: Alice in Wonderland
Good Shepherd
• Thursday 23
• Tuesday 2
• Saturday 13
Film: Pinocchio
Britain in the Fifties
Fantastic Fossils
• Film: Alice in Wonderland
Sunday 14 • Saturday 25
Bank Holiday Bonanza
• Wednesday 3
Paint, Hide and Find a Rock • Saturday 25
• Wednesday 3
• Wednesday 17
Preparing for Eternity in Ancient
Chester Heritage Festival
Launch: Roman Day
Sprouting Spring Egypt
• Thursday • Sunday 26
• Wednesday
Fish Houses
3
Café Crafts
18 Bank Holiday Bonanza
• Something to Do at the • Monday 27
• Wednesday 3
Carry On with Cake
Saturday 20 Bank Holiday Bonanza
Weekend • Tuesday 28
Amaze by Science!
• Thursday 4
• Saturday 20
Paint, Hide and Find a Rock Fabergé Eggs • Tuesday 28
Silly Storybooks
• Thursday 4
• Wednesday 24
Film: Pinocchio The History of Puddington • Wednesday 29
Pop Bottle Rockets
• Thursday 4
• Wednesday 24
Flower Wreaths Daphne in the Dark • Wednesday 29
Amaze by Science!
• Thursday 4
• Thursday 25
Café Crafts Film: Funny Cow • Wednesday 29
Terrific Triassic
• Friday 5
• Friday 26
‘Quiet’ Afternoon Craft and Chat • Wednesday 29
North Wales’s Civil War
• Saturday 6
Film: Alice in Wonderland
• Wednesday 29
May Grosvenor Park Archaeological
• Sunday 7
Film: Pinocchio
• Thursday 2
Excavation Open Afternoon
• Tuesday 9
Café Crafts
• Wednesday 29
Congleton: A Town of Surprises
Run Away to the Circus • Friday 3
‘Quiet’ Afternoon
• Thursday 30
• Tuesday
Ghost Dogs
9
• Saturday 11
Pop Bottle Rockets
• Wednesday 10
Get Creative: Water and Wildlife
• Thursday
Cupcakes!
30
Wind Chimes • Saturday
The Riot Act
11
• Friday 31
• Wednesday 10
Run Away to the Circus • Saturday 11
Craft and Chat
Rod Clements & Ian Thompson
• Wednesday
Film: Pinocchio
10
• Sunday 12
Get Creative: Water and Wildlife
June
• Wednesday 10 • Friday 7
Butterfly Planters • Museum Explorers
Monday 13 ‘Quiet’ Afternoon
• Thursday
Wind Chimes
11
• Wednesday 15 • Saturday 8
Heritage Transport Festival
Chester’s Civil War
• Thursday 11
Film: Alice in Wonderland • Thursday 16 • Saturday 9
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