Head Gardener role being advertised at Winterbourne House and Garden! Closing date 22nd Feb 2026.
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There are now just 6 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan.
I teach you:
🌿how to draw plants
🧠how creative activity improves mental health
I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator:
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Bayliss Jones and Bayliss of Wolverhampton used to throw Christmas parties for employees' children. Here they are enjoying ice creams and singing carols. Early 1960s. #1960sChristmas #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #MidlandsHistory
Exciting opportunity at Winterbourne House and Garden! Closing date 6th January.
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We also have a crinkle-crankle at Winterbourne House and Garden, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, built in 1904, here pictured in the 1930s.
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings?
Edward Strutt (1st Baron Belper), who died #OnThisDay 1880, was Liberal MP for Derby 1830-48, Arundel 1851-2, Nottingham 1852-6. As Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster he wore this court dress; more on this in @archivewhg.bsky.social's guest post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/f...
Has anyone come across this clothing brand? Probably 1940s or earlier? We have it on a cotton apron - house livery or waitress. @19cdandtreframed.bsky.social @katestrasdin.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social
Just 2 weeks left of the beautifully curated ‘Rembrandt. Masterpieces in Black and White. Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Not just 40+ Rembrandts. Also 19C etching revival & 20C Birmingham etchers influenced by Rembrandt & the lure of light & dark.👌🏽
#VEDay Female students lived at #WinterbourneHouseandGarden from 1944, and recall the impact of rationing. “On Saturday and Sunday evenings we had ‘supper supplies’ - a slice of ham, an egg, a tomato, a piece of plastic cheese, and some bread…allocations of butter and margarine and sugar.”
#VEDay After the war Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) were keen to inform their employees about the contribution their products were making to reconstruction. This poster showed exactly how many screws went into a prefab house. #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #WW2 @archiveswm.bsky.social
#Archive30 #WhyArchives Archives provide the bedrock for an infinite variety of projects! Our university interns contribute blog posts to our website about their discoveries. @arascot.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social
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#Archive30 #ArchiveCollection The arrival of archive collections can be chaotic. The #Herbarium was moved to Winterbourne in one day - 1000+ boxes plus the wooden cabinets. Now it's a calm and tranquil space! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @cuherb.bsky.social
Pretty scary cake!
#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveNightmares This series of hand-made lantern slides depicting Three Blind Mice is surely the stuff of nightmares! @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 This #ArchiveObject came to us with our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. We had no idea what it was until a volunteer came across a reference to the 'constant velocity joint' designed for the new #Mini in the 1960s! A piece of motoring history. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagecars
This beautiful miniature cabinet of microscopic slide preparations belonged to Professor of Materia Medica, Ralph Stockman. With the obligatory pencil for scale! #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
#Archive30 #SomethingNew This portfolio, donated this year, was published in Birmingham for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Birmingham artists inc. Walter Langley contributed drawings which were reproduced as mounted prints. @arascot.bsky.social @archiveswm.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social
Today is #ArchiveTravel for #Archive30
Due to the paucity of English mountains we're all about travel. Travel means mountains! ... and alpine dragons. So many dragons.
#ExploreYourArchive
Amy Malden's diary includes details of a tour of Switzerland in August 1898 and cycling tours through Kent, Devon, Surrey and North Wales. The diary includes photographs, postcards and pressed flowers and ferns. #Archive30 #PopularItem
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I queued for hours with my mother to see this exhibition in 1972. Unforgettable.
I remember consulting these records years ago as part of the Birmingham History Galleries project at Birmingham Museums Trust. A fantastic resource for social history.
#Archive30 #PopularItem This tiny sketch book full of hand-painted #botanicalillustrations by Beatrice Nettlefold of Winterbourne always proves popular at handling sessions! @arascot.bsky.social @lukaslarge.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online
New uploads released every three weeks - new uploads today!
#Archive30 #CommunityArchives Our #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive at Winterbourne reflects the many communities within the company. During #WWII female employees enjoyed a strong community spirit and even taught each other dancing in the aisles. @arascot.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveAction 'The Way to Camp' by S.H.Walker (1946) offers all kinds of invaluable advice including the correct action when walking. As he says, 'Few townfolk know how to walk'. I am definitely guilty of what he calls the 'townie slouch'. @arascot.bsky.social @jdk653.bsky.social
#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths The collection of Welsh tales, the Mabinogion, finds a place in our industrial #GuestKeen&Nettlefolds archive. It was translated in the 1840s by Lady Charlotte Guest, industrialist, educator and philanthropist, whose husband ran the Dowlais Ironworks. @arascot.bsky.social
#Archive30 #FunandGames Evie and Nina Nettlefold loved real horses and ponies, and both look a little bit dissatisfied with this toy one! Taken around 1898. @arascot.bsky.social #vintagetoys
#Archive30 #ArchiveTravel W.S.Laycock's railway and steamship fittings were the pinnacle of luxury in the early 20th century, as this catalogue shows! They later became part of the #GKN group of companies. @arascot.bsky.social
