Redbridge Museum will join museums and galleries from across the UK and Europe on Twitter later this month for the first ever #MuseumWeek, a project that will connect people to artwork, culture, history and science in new and interactive ways. #MuseumWeek will take place from Monday 24 March to Sunday 30 March and will give …
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You Are Here: A history of Redbridge in Maps an exhibition
Exciting news for all you history buffs! Our Museum's Map exhibition has been extended to run until Saturday 14th June 2014! Take a journey with ‘A history of Redbridge in Maps’ back through space and time to discover over 2,000 years of local history. The fascinating story of Redbridge is told through a range of beautiful maps. Look …
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Redbridge Museum – Map Of The Week
This week our Map of the Week is a terrestrial pocket globe dated from the 1800’s. The globe shows the earth while its spherical case shows formations of stars known as constellations. Australia is shown on the globe as ‘New Holland’ . It was known as this by Europeans until the name was changed to Australia …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
This week our Map of the Week takes us to Valentines Park. It was opened in 1898 after Ilford Council bought land from the owners of Valentines Mansion. At this time Ilford was a fast developing suburb and the Council wanted recreation space for its residents. The Council gradually bought up more of the estate …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
Cycling was hugely popular as a cheap leisure pursuit in the early 1900s. Specialist maps, such as these, were used to plan trips out into the Essex countryside for local people. This map has been published by the Hovis bread company – presumably hungry cyclists would have packed sandwiches with them! Title – Essex Cycling …
Hidden Brook
Check out this great poem 'Hidden Brook' by Paul Conway. This poem was first read at our open mic night in celebration of National Poetry Day. We will post a new poem each week, so keep checking for updates! Please send any works you would like published to domore@visionrcl.org.uk Hidden Brook Babble; Babble; lonely …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
Our Map of the Week is unusual in that it is an escape map for British forces during World War II. During this time around 1 million escape maps were made on behalf of the British armed forces. These were issued to soldiers, seamen and airmen in case they found themselves behind enemy lines. They were …
Calling all Teachers!
Are you aware Redbridge Museum based in Central Library Ilford offers *FREE sessions for key stage students on the following topics? Romans Tudors (at a stretch) Victorian Childhood and Washday (combined works best) World War II Black and Asian contributions to WWII Local History – Ilford; Wanstead and Woodford Old and New Toys Britain Since …
Redbridge Museum – Map Of The Week
This week's Map of the Week is a plan for Fairlop that never came to light. In 1937 the City of London purchased 1,000 acres in order to build a civic airport. But with the threat of the Second World War these plans were rejected. By the 1940’s the land was used as an airfield …
Redbridge Museum – Map of the week
To continue celebrating the opening of our new exhibition A History of Redbridge in Maps we are sharing a range of images. The second instalment of our range is a map produced by Ilford Urban District Council. This map highlights the land use in 1925, and sits alongside a present-day land use map created by …
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