The Long Shop Museum

Ooh. Misplacing your ink. Galling, isn't it? 😁

Where/when will the session be, please?

Oh. Soz. 😳 I wasn't in the room.

The almost incalculable debt the country owed all of the women that took up roles in agriculture and manufacturing during the World Wars was largely repaid with a 'thanks for your efforts, the men are returning now, so get back to your kitchens' response. Beveridge has a lot to answer for.

The Long Shop Museum Have you seen our exciting news? We have officially been taken off, yes off the Heritage at Risk Register. This is an important milestone for us. We agreed to be added to the list so that we could...

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How is it that the BBC continually overlooks that, because it is funded directly by our licence fees, all it creates and collects belongs to us. Of they want to drastically alter how media is made available to us, they need to ask us first.

Our wonderful Welsh Terrier, Brodie. An aspiring airship pilot prior to crossing the rainbow bridge last year.

I'll be in touch tomorrow with an order (can't promise 'large', but...) and...

I'm chill with emailing you a thing. What would you like?

Well, you're a bear, so I can see how people could come across as a hot mess. 😬

The GLAM sector is properly under the cosh at present, yet you will find things of wonder and immersive engagement in even the humblest of museums. Please visit us, and help to keep our glorious and unique heritage and culture alive.

I say! That's jolly kind of you. Have to say, I'm pretty fond of Royston Museum (though, TBH, pressure of work has kept me away from there for too long).

Fragment of Roman era tile floor, depicting a goose and a duck a-scurrying.

Whatever the Romans had instead of a Surrey with a fringe on top, it was coming this way according to this floor fragment in Museu de Menorca (here on important fact finding mission).

I knew I should have bet on her to place rather than win. I think the going was rather firm for her liking. Oh well, that's another half crown I won't see again...

2028, you say? That must be a VERY fast attack craft! 😁

It was a wonderful, inspirational evening! Congratulations to all (particularly the children) who worked so hard to make it happen. #longshopsoundmachine

a pigeon is standing on its hind legs on a table . Alt: A pigeon doing it's best 'Stayin' Alive' strut as it enjoys our industrial heritage galleries - who knew?

Until recently, when we instigated a stricter entry policy (repaired the roof), the fascination of the objects in our Long Shop galleries was too much for the local avian community to resist. Once they were in, it was all we could do to drag them away.

Three classic Alvis motor cars gracing the car park at the Long Shop Museum.

When you think your newly surfaced car park is pretty snazzy, then these amazing creatures turn up to really make the place look tidy.

Camus would've approved.

Has the duck been demanding, too?

An immensely gratifying extract from our visitor book. The entry describes the museum as 'amazing', 'overwhelming', and a 'MUST SEE' 😁

When you've spent the last six months refurbishing, refreshing, and reinventing your museum, this is the sort of visitor feedback that makes it all worthwhile.

That bull had strayed into the hemp field, I'm thinking, if ya get me, my dudes... 😎😁

It's a rather stylised lioness. Garrett’s symbol of 'Strength, Silence, Speed'

Gilded weathervane featuring silhouettes of a steam engine, a threshing machine, and four ploughs. The Garrett lioness sits proudly atop it all.

One of the more obvious elements of our restoration work. Our glorious re-gilded weathervane shows off its shimmer against a Spring Suffolk sky!

Polished brass hubcap of a traction engine wheel reflecting the image of the West end of the Long Shop.

We're open! Apologies for the period of radio silence, we were preoccupied with preparations for reopening after five months of refurbishment work.

Well done!
You earned this. (sound on)

Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.

Aloe Vera?

Ooft! That is one of the lovliest things you've posted (and the bar was already high). What beautiful bower!

Wow! That would make it a truly mighty menhir!
I reckoned that about a third of its exposed height being buried would have done the job.

An oft o'erlooked philosopher.

There are, I think, a few superstitious traditions linked to hammering coins into tree trunks - some believed that you'd grow rich as the tree grew and flourished; others that ill-luck, or an ailment, could be transferred into the tree.