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Bailiffgate Museum presents for the first time the history of Alnwick and District. The people & places of North Northumberland are brought to life here in lively, interactive style, through an exploration of six engaging themes.

Bailiffgate Museum presents for the first time the history of Alnwick and District. The people & places of North Northumberland are brought to life here in lively, interactive style, through an exploration of six engaging themes.


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4th – 28th May 2012
Shrove Tuesday Football Match exhibition and film for the People’s Record of the Olympic Year – the year the Olympic Torch comes to Alnwick!
At the heart of a new exhibition at the Bailiffgate Museum is a memorable, enjoyable and moving film, produced by a team from the Gallery Youth project and film-maker Harry Henderson, to celebrate Alnwick’s traditional Shrove Tuesday football match. It has been made as part of the People’s Record for the Olympic Year, along with a series of over 40 excellent documentary photographs by Andrew Tunnard. Sound recordings for the film and a series of fascinating oral histories from participants have also been collected and recorded with the support of audio-editor James Boyd.
Bailiffgate is also hosting a lecture from Andrew Tunnard about “The Representation of Culture and Heritage within Contemporary Photography” on Thursday 24th May at 7pm.
The Bailiffgate Museum would like to invite anyone who has a photo from any Shrove Tuesday match to bring it along, put it on the community display board in the exhibition and donate it to the Museum’s archives.
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4th – 28th May 2012
Shrove Tuesday Football Match exhibition and film for the People’s Record of the Olympic Year – the year the Olympic Torch comes to Alnwick!
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Six specially themed displays capture the unique heritage of this historic region. |
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See and hear people from the past and present, enhanced by a specially commissioned film and archive footage. |
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