1983/12 | Bulletin / December 1983 | Education / Chichester High School children with West Sussex Institute of Higher Education (Bishop Otter College) students are being involved in a pilot project to develop new material for our education service under the direction of Elizabeth Newbery and John Fines, senior lecturer at WSIHE |
1983/12 | Bulletin / December 1983 | Sweatshirts / Four sweatshirts, large, are available from the office at |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Christmas break / Staff break from Friday evening 23 Dec until Monday morning 2 Jan
The Museum will be open to the public on Dec 26, 27 & 28, and Jan 1 & 2 |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Provisional diary of major events in 1984 / 7 April -- opening of W Wittering School
7 Apr - 6 May -- Traditional Building Material
23 Apr - Easter Parade
1 May - Broadside Band
3 May - 29 Jul - Biskupin
19 May - Country Fair
10 Jun - Heavy Horses
7-8 Jul - "Timber"
30 Jul - 31 Aug - Summer School
4-5 Aug - Benningfield Exhibition
6-12 Aug - North Cray Hall House
6-31 Aug - Portrait of a craftsman
10-12 Aug - Chartered Institute of Building Festival
19 Aug - Driving Show
3-30 Sept - Exhibition of Children's work
6-31 Oct - Joy of the Craftsman
20-21 Oct - Autumn Activities |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Library / The library will be open on Tuesdays during the winter. Application has been made under the Manpower Services Commission Community Projects Programme for assistance to complete the cataloguing of all the library materials. |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Shop / Peggy Tall will take on the position of 3rd member of the shop team. Doreen Andrews will assist in the shop on Sundays during the winter |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Jim Hampshire / During the winter months Jim will be doing less cleaning and will be in other duties, mainly coppicing.
Pollarding of some of the hornbeams in the coppice, subject to windblow. |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Appointments / We are seeking to fill a new position of Assistant Warden to commence in 1984. |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Winter admission prices / Adults |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Junior Friends / Elizabeth Newbery has agreed to introduce and organise a Junior branch of the Museum Friends. |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Carol Service / Tuesday 20 Dec 83 in Bayleaf at 7pm |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Photocopier / The office has a new photocopier (to be paid for next year). Staff may use this for private purposes at a cost of 5p per copy providing a member of the office staff is present. Alternatively staff may request the office staff to carry out the photocopying which will be done with pleasure. |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Visitor attendance figures for the 1983 season / 152,930 |
1983/11 | Bulletin / November 1983 | Meetings / GPC [General Purposes Committee] 10 Nov 83
Council 13 Dec 83
Stewards 21 Nov 83 |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Time Trek / The Museum Board Game "Time Trek" will be available shortly in the Shop. |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Spring Field Trip to the Welsh Marches / A trip to the Welsh Marches based on the Abbey Hotel at Great Malvern is planned for April 1984 by Walter Greenway. Probable stops at Avebury, Ledbury, Stokesay Casle, Ludlow, Worcester, Kilpeck Church Bibury and two villages selected from Weobly, Eardisland and Pembridge. |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Friends Trip to the West Country / Joan Brooks reports on the Trip to the West Country organised by Walter Greenway. Visits included the Museum at Morwellham, Cotehele and the Mill at Otterton. |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Junior Friends to be Formed / Elizabeth Newbery has volunteered to run a Junior Friends group for individual children aged 7 and upwards. They will receive newsletters and there will be special activities at Christmas, Easter and during the summer open only to Junior Friends. |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Letter from the Chairman of the Friends. / Sir James Waddell's letter to the Friends refers to the next AGM at which the Secretary, Bernard Johnson and the Treasurer, Elsie Kessler will be retiring. Carol Hawkins (later Carol Brinson) and Bernard Rush are willing to take their places.
The Friends' have contributed |
1983/10 | Members' Magazine No. 20 / October 1983 | Museum's Smallest Building / A timber-framed privy from Charlton is being erected in the Toll Cottage garden by the Winter volunteer party led by Brian Boseley |
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