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This morning I thought we might get a live news report on the large fire around the corner to you
Brian | 26.08.23 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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That's the comment in today's sealed envelope ✉ and I am celebrating with the customary Creme Egg. For breakfast.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.08.23 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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re: Hall Place, Bexley. Best was its butterfly museum, now sadly closed.
davews | 26.08.23 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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A shame, though it can be argued that though London councils are the same size as "Newcastle, Brighton, Derby or Hull", there isn't really the same notion of being a discrete "place". The Museum of London covers/covered/will cover a lot of what the regional town museums elsewhere display.
To me London Borough museums work best if they have a specific angle, whether it's a unique collection, or because they're based in an interesting and historical building. The local history in the Gunnersbury Park Museum is really interesting, but I suspect it's the downstairs historic rooms like the kitchen which lure people in.
Mikey C | 26.08.23 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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I always wondered whether the Museum of Barking had a collection of dog recordings.
Peter | 26.08.23 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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There isn’t, and to the best of my knowledge never has been, a Museum of Barking.
übermensch | 26.08.23 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Thank you for this research. Wandsworth Museum did reopen in 2010 with philanthropic funding but closed in 2015. I think you visited. There are plans to open mini-museums in some of the borough libraries.
It would be an interesting FOI request to each of the 32 London boroughs to ask if they have museum collections and how many items are in those collections.
south london lad | 26.08.23 - 3:35 p.m. | #
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You’re right to call out K&C and Westminster for backsliding; while both have good local history/archives collections (I’ve researched in both; Westminster’s is excellent), as you say, they’re absolutely not the same thing, especially considering the amount of significant history in both boroughs. But maybe that’s the trouble: if your borough includes world-famous monuments or museums, you don’t feel any onus to provide historical information about, or for, the plebs.
Labourer | 26.08.23 - 10:07 p.m. | #
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Although not a "museum" Putney library Wandsworth does have a display case of local industries - all now closed down.
Colin Whiting | 27.08.23 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Enfield, like Croydon, is up to its eyeballs in debt, so county museums are probably least of its concerns.
dncn | 27.08.23 - 7:36 p.m. | #
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I went to Islington's not too long ago and it was alright but very much one of those museums that clearly hasn't seen a penny of investment in years and years and years. Full of broken touch screens and out of date text.
Was Newham's once the Passmore Edwards Museum, which you've covered before, or did the subject matter not match the criteria for borough museum?
Sean | 28.08.23 - 3:49 p.m. | #
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