Cumbrian Museums World War I Information/Activity Plan
Museum
Collection or link
to WWI
Proposed Activity
Senhouse
Museum,
Maryport
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Senhouse family
and Museum
building
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The Dock
Museum, Barrow
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A
range
of
artefacts
inc
prints,
photos,
ships
plans,
uniform, medals,
ID tags, memorial
plaque,
2Xmunition
workers’
mop
caps etc
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*Additional info
attached
The Wordsworth
Trust
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Exhibition
The role of the Museum building
in WWI
The Senhouse family's
involvement in the War
WW1 exhibition to include films
commissioned by Museum made
by local film-maker
The Impact of War exhibition exploring a variety of themes
linking Wordsworth with the
subject of War
Just to let you know that in
Grasmere we are planning an
exhibition in late 2014
(November, probably) on the
impact of war on Grasmere as a
place and society, and on the
individuals who lived here. We
have a small group of residents
which we hope will grow in size –
and the areas for research
Suggested
Audience
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Museum
visitors
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Museum
visitors
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Museum
visitors
Proposed
dates
(if
known)
Contact details
Jane Laskey
Senhousemuseum@aol.com
28/3/14 –
30/7/14
Sabine Skae
sskae@barrowbc.gov.uk
Jeff Cowton
j.cowton@wordsworth.org.uk
include:
1. The descendants of those
who experienced war and its
impact
 2. The life and work of the one
Grasmere woman listed as
serving
 3. The physical changes in the
village ie more land ploughed up
 4. Changes to society – women
doing men’s work
 5. The experiences of
individual serving people
 We plan to meet monthly or so,
have a major public event next
January to attract attention and
interest, then have the show
later in the year.
 First World War – Pre-event
Issue a press release asking people to
donate/loan items or stories relating
to WWI
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Keswick Museum
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WWI photograph
Stained glass
window fm Royal
Oak, Keswick
Memorial from
Brigham School
Photographs
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Stained glass window Schools
project
Within the Keswick Museum
collection is a wonderful stained glass
window which once hung in the Royal
Oak Hotel in Keswick. The window
commemorated those who lost their
lived in WWI. This window displays
the scene from Punch of the lost
solider.
Using the stained glass window from
the Royal Oak Hotel we will work with
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Keswick
residents
Schools
Museum
visitors
Charlotte Stead
charlotte.stead@keswickmuseum.co.uk
schools (Secondary and primary) to
produce a new stained glass window
inspired by the original and WWI.
Each school will work with an artist to
produce their own window, using
Perspex. Then all the windows will be
connected and hung together
alongside the original in the gallery.
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The Ruskin
Museum,
Coniston
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James Hewitson
VC’s matchless
Motorbike &
papers
Info on John
Wilkinson, son of
Ruskin’s
coachman at
Brantwood KIA
30/3/18
Knitted balaclavas Community
project
During the WWI Millbeck village
knitted balaclavas for the soldiers
fighting in the Great War, they
created a group called ‘Parish Teas
and Entertainment’. Millbeck was
once the location of a thriving
woollen mill.
Inspired by the Millbeck Parish, using
local knitting groups and local
families/schools we could produce a
contemporary balaclavas. Crossgenerational - using lost skills to
inspire young people. This could be
marketed as tea and knitting
Permanent display of 1926 Matchless
500 motorcycle and associated
objects to James Hewitson VC
One permanent display case of WW1
material
Currently researching Roll of Honour
and WW1 war memorials
Vicky Slowe
information@ruskinmuseum.com
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Loans inc 2 Great
War medals & 2
Princess Mary’s
Christmas tins
 WG Collingwood
link (he designed
war memorials
inc Coniston,
Hawkshead,
Grasmere,
Penrith, St Bees
& Ulverston
Relevant Tapestries
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Touring exhibition of significant
embroidered panels to three or
four UK venues with the theme of
'peace'
Around 20 WWI
artefacts on display, –
approx same amount
in storage
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Helena
Thompson
Museum,
Workington
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Collection of
information and
contacts linked to
WWI in
Workington
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Possible temporary exhibition
Involvement with a Cumbria-wide
exhibition?
Additional gallery activities
May 2015 – possible display on
Abraham Acton VC and
assosciated talk
Talks programme
School sessions – inhouse and
outreach
WWI linked social events
Penrith Museum
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Story of Percy
Toplis
Connections to
Lowther / Lord
Lonsdale and
Kaiser Wilhelm,
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WWI displays
WWI Community case
Information point for WWI in
Penrith
Proposed Creative Arts project
exploring WWI
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Quaker Tapestry,
Kendal
The Beacon,
Whitehaven
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c/o Lisa Keys
LMEN Co-ordinator
l.keys@minervaheritage.com
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Museum
visitors
Schools
Alan Gillon alan.gillon@copeland.gov.uk
Workington
schools
Museum
visitors
Pat Hall
Workington Heritage Group
whghtm@hotmail.co.uk
Schools
Museum
visitors
Penrith
residents
Local
Sidney Chapman
Sydney.Chapman@eden.gov.uk
Les Donnnan les.donnan@copeland.gov.uk
Working with the Penrith Remembers
1914-1918 community initiative and are
putting on a display of our own, and
Tullie House
Museum, Carlisle
and the Lonsdale
Battalion
 Records and
information
about the St
Andrews
hospital, Penrith
 Westmorland
and Cumberland
Yeomanry
Museum,
Dalemain wish to
work with Penrith
and Eden
Museum and be
linked for
delivery.
Array of superb
period images
Good luck
handkerchiefs
Childs trench game
puzzle
Third Fleet Flotilla
Christmas card
Quintinshill disaster
bayonet
Decorative
Commemorative
stamps
Decorative Spoon
collection British war
heros
Memorial Plaque
Hudson Scott Tins
Central control Board
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communities
WWI Resource Pack for Eden
Schools
WWI INSET
WWI Schools session
WWI Community sessions
Penrith WWI Commemorative
event (no details available at
present)
Carlisle at War Exhibition and
Events programme
Community Film project
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Local family
audiences
National and
international
audiences
School Groups
– studying the
Great War
New
audiences –
engaging
serving
military
community
borrowed material. There will also be
educational workshops and related
activities. The community project has a
variety of activities planned but not all are
fixed yet.
June to
Sept 2015
Ed Rutherford - exhibition
edwin.rutherford@tulliehouse.org
Claire White – events
Claire.white@tulliehouse.org
Bottles
Post Office Telegram
to Carlisle Journal
announcing end of
War in1918
Ladies Black Dress
1915
Jutland medal 1916
British war medals
1914-1918
Cumbria’s
Military Museum
Extensive artefacts
and archives linked to
the Border Regiment
in WWI
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Schools session for both Primary
and Secondary Schools
Exhibitions and gallery object
handling
Research/developing volunteer
team
Community events and activities
Family Workshops
Talks and Lectures
Remembrance Project
Gallipoli 2015
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Exhibition and Events
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Haig Mining
Museum
Kendal Library
(and other
branch libraries
Haig Pit named after
General Haig from
WWI, and was sunk
between 1914
and 1918
Relevance of miners
to the war effort and
their role in the
trenches
Local relevant
resources including
photographs, books
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Having a small section on WW1 built
into the exhibition around the sinking
of the pit with links to Field Marshall
Haig. Currently researching links to
miners in trenches. Looking at local
links.
Haig plans to reopen October 2014.
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Supporting individuals and local
societies who wish to recognise
the impact of the war locally
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Schools
Families
Adults inc
specialists
Ex military
esp Border
Regiment
Communities
Young people
Museum
visitors
Museum
visitors
Library Users
Local
Throughout
2014 to
2019
Stuart Eastwood
korbrmuseum@aol.com
Pam Telford
root@haigpit.com
c/o Lisa Keys
LMEN Co-ordinator
l.keys@minervaheritage.com
throughout
Cumbria?)
about local regiments,
local newspapers
(presently being
indexed for names of
serving personnel
from the period),
books about local
parishes and
individuals, oral
history archives,
research notes from
individuals about local
war memorials, etc.
Lakeland Arts
Trust
 Abbot Hall
 MOLLI
 Blackwell
 Windermere
Steam Boat
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National reading initiatives
incorporating a local element
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Either one display in 2014 or
several small targeted displays
tied to a timeline focussing on
build up of optimism in first few
months & over by xmas attitude
followed by change in attitudes
with battles, loss of life and
conscription
Event around Christmas 2014
(1914)
Commission artwork based on
red paper produced by Croppers
for poppies
Grow poppies at Blackwell (James
Cropper link)
Blackwell Gooseberry jam
(gooseberries grown for local
convalescent home during war)
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*Additional info
attached
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English Heritage
– Stott Park
Bobbin Mill
Made rungs for rope
ladders and handles
and shafts for spades
and shovels for World
communities
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Museum
visitors
Climbing
Community
James Arnold
jarnold@lakelandarts.org.uk
First World War Centenary: From Fells to
Flanders
Exhibition at Museum of Lakeland Life and
Industry, Kendal from 17 July to 20
December 2014
War I.
Carlisle Castle
Mountain
Heritage Trust,
Keswick
Cumbria Archives
Service
Will not be taking part
in commemorative
events
 Artefacts and
papers related to
individual
climbers, such as
Siegfried Herford,
killed in 1916 and
Geoffrey
Winthrop Young
(who founded
the British
Mountaineering
Council)
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Information and
artefacts to
inform audiences
of the effect of
the First World
War on the
climbing
community, and
climbing training
for some military
units.
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Abraham
Brother’s camera
c1910
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Archives related
to Cumbria during
WWI
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New permanent displays opening
in 2014 with WWI content inc
- effect of WWI on the climbing
community and climbing training
for some military units
- development of memorials
linked to climbing community inc
annual 11th Nov ceremony on
Great Gable
- the crossover between
equipment used in warfare and
its adaptation to regular climbing
afterwards
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Project working with a variety
of partners inc libraries, Oral
History Societies & CMM
2014
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Primary
Schools
Young People
Maxine Willett
Anne Rowe - anne.rowe@cumbria.gov.uk
c/o Cumbria Archive Centre, Lady Gillford's
House, Petteril Bank Rd, Carlisle CA1 3AJ
Maryport
Maritime
Museum
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focussing on archives and
digitisation
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Communities
?
Tel: 01228 713543
Appeal for anecdotes and
recollections from relatives
Produce publication on White
Star Line in WW1
Resource/Workshop for
schools?
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Schools
Local
Communities
maritime.maryport@gmail.com
Countywide Mapping of additional activity
Solway Aviation
Museum
No activity planned at present but would be happy to
work in partnership
David Price, Chairman
david@davidprice.org
Art Gene
Art Gene's proposals for a community art and interpretation
project around a WW1 practice trench and a target gun range on
the north end of Walney Island. Project will look at the military
history on the north end, particularly the remains of a WW1
practice trench and a target range. Local people will be invited to
work with a professional archaeologist to examine these sites and
then work with Art Gene's artists to design suitable interpretation
such as a smart phone trail. We have some funding from county
council and are applying to HLF Our Heritage as well.
Katy McCormick
artgenekaty@btconnect.com
Rheged
Art Exhibition. May tour regionally and nationally
John Stokes
Tel: 01768 860000
Theatre By the
Lake
Potential Oral History Project
Annie McCourt
Soundwave
Possible project (Opera?)
Whitehaven
Wartime Display – “The exhibition will tell the story of the war
Sarah W
3-10 May 2014 Gerard Richardson
in a storyboard timeline inter-dispersed with model battleships,
replica weapons and uniforms of the period”
Penrith
Remembers
1914-1918
Activities to be provided by a group of Penrith
organisations, societies and businesses working
together as consortium called Penrith Remembers
1914-1918.
CWAAS/CCHT
Primary Schools War Memorial Project (inc Resource
Pack)
Jules – V.6/1 Updated 7/11/13
Easter to
Christmas
2014
Primary Schools
Ann Risman
Bill Shannon?
(Eric Robson – Resource Pack)