Bexhill Museum

Jersey Heritage to launch online 'finds' system after 'treasure law' passed - Jersey Evening Post THE grant-funded charity responsible for the Island’s major historic sites, museums and public archives has welcomed the passing of Jersey’s first ‘treasure law’ and said it will set up a system to al...

Our role at Jersey Heritage is to facilitate the legal obligation to report finds and we will have an easy-to-use online system ready for the public to use once the legislation comes into force.” 🏺
I wish I could highlight "legal obligation" in bold.
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This is our Rural Telephone Exchange.
It used to be a fuel store many moons ago but now houses equipment from the 1940s.
It runs our internal telephone system.
And it still works when we have a power cut!

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Happy #StDavidsDay!

Last year the Railway Work, Life & Death project HUGELY increased its Welsh coverage - adding around 30,000 more Welsh cases to our free database of accidents to railway workers.

Find out more about Wales in our project here:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk?s=wales

Fig. 1. Relief block with embracing emperors, detail of fig. 7 (H. 104 cm, L. 270 cm) Credits Crediting for all images: Courtesy Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Archaeology Museum/multispectral or microscopic details : M. Abbe. URL http://journals.openedition.org/techne/docannexe/image/2567/img-1.jpg File image/jpeg, 832k

March 1, 293 CE: Today is the beginning of the Tetrarchy—the rule of four. It marks the day Diocletian and Maximian as Augusti made Galerius and Constantius their Caesars. Remember to hug it out as you keep your other hand on the hilt of your sword, 🗡️ folks. journals.openedition.org/techne/2567?...

Apparently it’s National Pig Day, which is all the excuse I need to re-post this adorable ancient Cypriot pig rattle from Portsmouth Museum.

A bright orange piggy bank made out of glass

A jug shaped as a pig

Happy National Pig Day! 🐽 🐖

Here's our piggy bank, made at Woods Brothers Glassworks in Barnsley and and a pig shaped jug by an unknown maker

#NationalPigDay #pig #pigs

British Railways (Western Region) - British Transport Catering Services : the Pembroke Coast Express menu & wine list card, November 1962 - covers. For many years special "named trains" 'express' or long distance train services were operated by British Railways and various of these dated back to the predecessor companies that existed before nationalisation in 1948 or grouping in 1923. One of the ex-Great Western Railway's services that was continued by the successor Western Region of BR was the "Pembroke Coast Express". This service did what its name suggested - leaving London Paddington (usually at 1030) and running non-stop to Newport and then on via some relatively small stations such as Whitland to arrive at Pembroke Dock around late afternoon. The 'up' trip returned leaving Pembroke at about 1300. The "named trains" usually had a full dining and catering offer and BR usually commissioned artwork for the menu and wine lists and this is the November 1962 version. The cover and back have a very contemporary feel and indeed BR and particularly British Transport Catering had generally high standards of production for such items in terms of the overall graphic design and typography. Annoyingly this version is anonymous but artists and designers such as Eric Fraser were much used. The interior of the card shows the wine list (with a by then quite dated typeface used for the "Wine List" heading or titling, as well as an inset pocket for the seperate dinner menu. 13/6d would get you a three course at table meal and you could wash that down with a wide choice of wines and spirts including the still available "GWR Special" blend of whisky! The graphics are stylised, in red, green & black, with bowls of fruit, falgons of wine and bowls inc. fish with script lettering for the front titles.

For St. David's Day - British Railways menu card & wine tariff for the "Pembroke Coast Express", the daily named train service that served South Wales from Paddington. #Wales

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Both garments are an orangey red with gold embroidery and are fringed. There is a corded tie around the neck of the cape.

Have you seen this new exhibit yet? It’s on display in our stairwell and is a gentleman’s cape with attached waistcoat. Made of heavy cotton and lined with silk. Richly embroidered throughout with gold threadwork and much hand sewing. Believed to be of Eastern/Asian origin.
#Bexhill

Pages and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Shamian, China 1.3.1877.

Sunbeam #Shamian #China 1.3.1877. "The streets of the city are so narrow, that two chairs can scarcely pass on another, except at certain points. The roofs of the houses nearly meet across the roadway, and, in addition, the inhabitants frequently spread mats overhead..." #Brassey #History #1870s

"Modern Road Transport.
The above illustration, which shows the latest type "Garrett" rigid six-wheel steam wagon, supplied to Mr. Frank F. Green, road transport contractor and builders' merchant, "Hillah," Sidley." Bexhill Observer 1.3.1930. #Sidley #Bexhill #Sussex #Transport #History #1930s

A decade of delightful art 🧡

Here are ten things that have changed on Art UK in our first ten years 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/a-decade-of-delightful-art-celebrating-art-uks-tenth-birthday

'The Unknown' by Kenny Hunter (b.1962) and Hargreaves Foundry © the artist. 📷 Dewi Owens / Art UK

Pages from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. The Pearl River, China 1.3.1877.

Sunbeam, Pearl River #China 1.3.1877. "These are very necessary precautions, on account of the numerous #pirates who occasionally ship in disguise among the crowd, murder the passengers & crew, & take possession of the steamer...this voyage was more prosperous, the captain was most kind..." #Brassey

Sea Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex c.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #Street #Road #History #1910s

"1772. Obfervations through MARCH.
Now March his Horn tempeftuous blows,
Drives down the Rain, or Hail, and Snows;
But, yet, the Ground is not much Froze,
And Spring comes on, we all fuppofe."
Poor Robin 1772.
A Sure And A Very Certain Prognostication.
#March #Spring #History #1770s #FolkloreSunday

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

This image shows the ruins of St. Leonard's Hospital, located within the Museum Gardens in York. Founded shortly after the Norman Conquest, it was once the largest and most significant medieval hospital in northern England. The remaining ruins include the undercroft, chapel, and an entrance passage dating back to approximately 1240. The hospital was built on the site of the former St. Peter's Hospital, which was severely damaged by a fire. The ruins are situated in the northeastern corner of the Yorkshire Museum Gardens, near the River Ouse. Image Tilman2007 CC BY-SA 4.0

Once the largest medieval hospital in the North of England, St Leonards, York was built shortly after the Norman Conquest on the site of a previous hospital St Peters, founded by King Aethelstan. The remaining ruins include the undercroft, chapel, and

Geology specimen photo

Amazing Natural Aquamarine Crystals Bunch with Mica Specimen from Pakistan.

📷 Muhammad Majid

#minerals #geology

Bring back hyperlocal teapots and teasets! 🫖

I picked up 4 Pentremites blastoids from an old collection. These are special because they show color patterns and a couple even have preserved brachioles (tiny hair-like structures that would filter the water for food). These are from the Miss. Glen Dean Fm. of Kentucky.

#FossilFriday

The pin tray is an irregular shape and an off white colour with a gold rim around it. There is a colour picture of the Pavilion in the centre. The text reads “De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.” There is some embossed design in the same off white colour, at the points of the tray, around the edge.

Vintage china pin tray of the De La Warr Pavilion #Bexhill . On display in the Sargent Gallery.

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Selma Brody, 1957

Bodice
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"Bexhill Coronation Memorial.
A Clock Tower For £280.
By Mr. J. B. Wall."
Bexhill Observer 28.2.1903.
#Bexhill #Sussex #Clock #History #1900s

"High Street, Sidley." Postcard 1913. #Sidley #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s

A small, flat, circular bowl with a hare's head with a long neck attached on the rim, its long ears standing upright. Painted motifs, dots on the neck, stripes and zigzags on the bowl, enhance the buff clay surface, the hare's face showing eyes, nostrils, and a whimsical expression.

It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse 🐰

This whimsical shallow terracotta bowl with a lively hare's head modelled onto its rim was perfect for holding libations, grains, or small offerings during #Greek rituals.

While its exact findespot is unknown, comparable... 🧵1/2

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Just sitting alone by a dolmen – in this case the V-shaped passage grave of Kermario in Carnac before its restoration in the 1920s. This card by Le Rouzic was first issued pre-1904 and continued to be issued up to the 1920s with at least 9 different print runs.

Probably the most beautiful archaeological store you have ever seen. Rows of boxes on shelves receding into the distance with a tantalizing light at the end.

Check out our artefact archive!! 🤩

(serious face...)
Archives like ours are filling up fast. Soon there will be no space in Britain to store newly-excavated artefacts and this will be catastrophic for research in archaeology as well as innovation, society, growth and the renewal of nature 😢

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Pages and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Hong Kong, China 28.2.1877.

Sunbeam #HongKong #China 28.2.1877. "I was up & off at half-past six to the market, & returned to a late breakfast on board; after which a large party of China merchants came as a deputation to invite Tom to fix a day to dine with them...They examined everything on board..." #Brassey #History #1870s

We are looking at the Great Hall's majestic oak roof.

We've just realised it's been over a week since we posted a photo of the roof of the Great Hall.

Please accept our apologies and we have now rectified the issue.

Hilton of Cadboll - replica Pictish stone by an ancient chapel site that was used for the burial of unbaptised infants and suicide victims upto the 18th century. This is a fascinating stone for its central depiction of a woman. Original in National Museum #Scotland #medievalsky #archaeology

We're still stunned by how many incredible finds there were last week during the half term. This one's definitely one of the most surprising ones, we can't wait to see this Jurassic shark jaw once it's been carefully cleaned up, found by Rocco aged 12! #FossilFriday