Hen Lockhart

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?

From Parliament to Fancy Dress: the life story of an MP’s court dress In this guest blog, Henrietta Lockhart, Curator of Museum Collections at Winterbourne House and Garden, at the University of Birmingham, tells the story of a unique piece of costume once owned and …

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

Rembrandt The Shell (Conus marmoreus), 1650 Etching and drypoint, state 2(3)

Rembrandt Self-Portrait in a Cap and Scarf, 1633 Etching, state 2(5)

Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914) The Seine at Bas-Meudon, 1868 Etching

Harry Eccleston Tip, 1957 Etching

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

A passion for plants: women in botany - Winterbourne House and Garden Discover the inspiring stories of women in botany at Winterbourne. Explore their contributions to the University Herbarium and the fascinating world of plant genetics.

#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

A small wood cabinet with drawers opened displaying labelled microscopic histology slides of tissue preparations.

A small brown box with labels and a pencil lying beside it for scale.

The side view of a small wooden case with labels of named diseases.

A small wood cabinet with drawers opened displaying labelled microscopic histology slides of tissue preparations.

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

Photograph of Grindelwald 1898.

Pressed flowers and ferns collected during Amy's tour of Switzerland in August 1898.

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

Research | Documentation Detectives: Transcribing Accession Registers | Zooniverse - People-powered research Transcribe Birmingham Museum's object accession registers to help us build an accessible collections database.

Become a Documentation Detective! Explore and transcribe #Birmingham Museums collection records online
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#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

A bill. Top part of the bill has the words Barrows Stores Ltd engraved on it using ornate calligraphy. An illustration of the frontage of a building on the right of the bill. Beneath this, columns capturing information such as dates and charges for services and goods. A coloured docket in the bottom left of the bill identifying payment has been paid.

#BirminghamShops Who remembers Barrow’s Stores which stood on the southern corner of Corporation Street and Bull Street. Developed from a shop opened by John Cadbury in 1824 and named Barrows in 1849. Here’s a bill from 1923. Ref: MS 1342/17 #LibraryofBham

#GoodFriday #Crucifixion Auchonvillers cemetery, Somme.

#Archive30 #ArchiveAdvice Don't pigeonhole archival collections! Artists have been inspired by our industrial, botanical and historical archives. Here is Carolyn Blake's interpretation of a 1911 lantern slide, in her exhibition @Winterbourne House and Garden till Sept. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #MiniMilestones One of our archive volunteers is cataloguing around 1000 botanical prints by James Sowerby, engraved by Sowerby and then hand-coloured by a specialist team in the early C19. She was excited to reach the 700th print! @arascot.bsky.social #Herbarium @lukaslarge.bsky.social