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Lido was opened by the suitably attired Mayor William Harvey, 21 Jun 1933! The Lido was the largest project in Harvey’s Work Fund for the town’s unemployed, supported by donations from local people. 50,000 visitors came in the opening 3 weeks

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2020-03-10

That gaze showcases quite the Pictured here is the famous circus performer Tom Thumb with his family. The image shows a detail from a lithograph on a cabinet card mount.

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2020-02-08

equals another gem for you: Add Mss 28784 - a 1631 map of Cuckfield, Lindfield and Wivelsfield - is beautifully detailed, including an acorn & rose border, open books with readable text, & the pedigree of the Hardham family going back 5 generations.

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2020-01-27

For today's final post, what could be more than the Wild West?! This is one of the performers who visited the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease c1950 to entertain the patients

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2019-12-01

This diseased larynx drawn by Neil Stewart in 1852 is part of an incredible series of watercolours of various parts of the body. The medical comments are by pathologist William Tennant Gairdner.

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2019-12-01

Womens’ voices haven’t always been heard. Sylvia Pankhurst requested admission to the Reading Room in 1908, wishing to look at Govt papers relating to the employment of women. This was addressed by trustees in 1920s

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2019-11-30

Tomorrow will be in the Museum with Archivist showing off some festive treasures
🎅🎄🔍📜 Drop in for any advice you need about caring for your family records too. 11-3pm.

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2019-11-30

Tomorrow I will be in 11-3 with some festive treasures from the Archive - Christmas cards from Svalbard, New Zealand, Russia, Germany and the Isle of Man! Pop in and say hello.

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2019-11-30

Did you know medieval pilgrims brought gifts to St Cuthbert’s Shrine in ?

We have an inventory of gifts dated 1383 which lists a unicorn’s horn & griffin's claw. 🦄

Can you guess what these mysterious objects were?

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2019-11-29

We can’t help feeling that Mr Edward Stretton, sexton at parish church in 1893, would have been a mysterious and rather unnerving sight in the graveyard! (9752/1/2/1)

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2019-11-29

The Archives often take in new material & were recently given this sketch of a name plaque for the Chapel. It’s from 1882 & lines up with sketches we already have but the Chapel doesn’t depict St Peter or use cherubs around the names

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2019-11-29

One of my favourite posters in BT's collection is this unusual view of the UK on its side to show the GPO coastal wireless radio stations chain, essential in 1938 for ship to shore maritime communications. Artist MacDonald (Max) Gill.

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2019-11-28

Joining week with the image from our Edinburgh & Scottish Collection. Newhaven fishwives photographed by David Octavius Hill in 1847 https://t.co/fsmnIREAUH

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2019-11-28

People visiting the today may be surprised to learn what was previously in the space now taken up by the Great Court, including what was there before the Round Reading Room, built in the 1850s.

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2019-11-26

Today's hashtag is ! We love these photos of Education student William J Ireland having fun around campus with his friends! Find out more about his collection here https://t.co/4HlrgtvEfP

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2019-11-25

When I visited Omaha, NE my first stop was to the library! In their archives lies the scalp of William Thompson. He was scalped in 1867 and lived to tell the tale. When he found that no Dr could reattach his scalp, he took it touring in England.

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2019-11-25

We're quite glad not to have many archives to offer for but we do have this wonderful photograph of the LSBU staff in the 1890s, with some great moustaches. Also fitting for

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2019-11-24

day 2 This is just too easy! Our hirsute past members James Mansergh, Sir William Anderson, William Henry Preece and George Parker Bidder

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2019-11-24

This oil Igloo Cake (2007) by Annabel Dover is from our Collection. It was part of a wider series in which one small painting was made every day for a year from a that was close to the

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2019-11-24

Does LMA have an extensive collection of cakes?

Well, they don't last very long in the staff tea room! We do however have an extensive collection of cakey businesses, including Lyons, as you can see here.

Explore > https://t.co/5OlGJxhm5l

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2019-11-23