#newtownarchives Some wild spring flowers for you and Redditch DC gardening advice! April is for hoeing between bedding plants, sewing of vegetable crops & potatoes. It's also the time to seed & deworm lawns. How much has advice changed since the 70s? newjerusalems.info

#newtownarchives Spring into spring! Redditch was a centre of spring manufacture in the 1970s. Herbert Terry & Sons Ltd was the first to produce the famous Anglepoise lamp. RDC technical library has a profile of a Spring Engineer & more! newjerusalems.info

Join explorethepast for 'An Introduction to Self-Service Research Resources' on 20/04/2024, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at The Hive.

Only £8! Perfect for beginners, discover Worcestershire's rich archives and master research skills. Last chance to book: explorethepast.co.uk

#newtownarchives Homes for the incoming population were a major part of new towns with their purpose of alleviating pressure from urban areas. Here are images from brochures promoting new homes in Redditch from the 1970s. newjerusalems.info

An adventure for you this weekend 🏔️🗺️

Take a virtual trip to New Zealand with photos in our collection taken by Arthur Whinfield during his 1880s world tour.

Follow his footstep in our blog (& remember to subscribe so you're the first to see new posts)
explorethepast.co.uk/2024/03/travel…

Two more days! Don't miss us on Thursday or Friday @WorcesterCathedral

Call in at 11am or 2pm to hear all about the dig and handle a selection of finds, from Roman pot to a Georgian wig curler 🧐

🐣 Easter Opening Hours

Both the library and Archives are open as usual on Saturday 30th April, but will be closed Friday, Sunday and Monday.

Have an egg-cellent bank holiday weekend!

We're excited to be at Worcester Cathedral sharing finds from the dig!

11 & 2 daily, 2 - 5 April
30 min talk & artefact handling session near fenced excavation area

From Roman pot to a Georgian wig curler, over 2000 yrs of archaeology is being revealed #WorcestershireHour

Hailed as a key invention to come out of WWII, Bailey bridges allowed waterways & steep drops to be crossed quickly and easily.

Have you spotted any around #Worcestershire ?

Find out more and how you can help record these pieces of forgotten history.
explorethepast.co.uk/2024/03/the-ba…

Our new blog Redditch New Town: Sports, Promotion and Leisure is at explorethepast.co.uk/2024/03/reddit… #WorcestershireArchives #Newtown Head to the project home page at newjerusalems.info and follow updates at instagram.com/new.jerusalems/

Isn't this sweet!

Lovely to see it properly clean, thanks to Drakon Heritage.

Here is the second blog of our Redditch New Town series, in which we uncover more items discovered during our New Jerusalems cataloguing project explorethepast.co.uk/2024/02/reddit… #Redditch #industry

You can see Vesta Tilley's scrapbooks and more of her collection in Worcestershire Archives.

Find out what we hold 👉
explorethepast.co.uk/project/the-ve…
#LGBTHistoryMonth

Cataloguing Redditch New Town records as part of our New Jerusalems project is near completion. Retro conversion of our hard-copy catalogues is underway. Find out about items we have discovered in our first blog of four at explorethepast.co.uk/2024/02/reddit…
#newtowns #redditch

Our FREE Magical Maps children's drop-in event is this Sat 10-2pm The Hive (5-11 yr olds). Children can piece colourful maps together jigsaw-style, write with a quill, complete quiz sheets & draw a fantasy map. Fancy dress welcome! Children must be accompanied by an adult.

In memory of Alex Pope, the landlord of the Paul Pry pub the paul pry explorethepast.co.uk/2018/02/whats-…