Community Open Day

Activities and events

At Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin St., Gloucester, GL1 3DW

Programme

10am Open and welcome

10.30am Behind the scenes guided tour (approx 30 minutes)

11.00am Family friendly talk by our roaming highwayman

11.00am “Treasures of the Archives” illustrated talk

11.30am Behind the scenes guided tour (approx 30 minutes)

12 noon Film show created from spoken memories (Memories of parents in WW1; the old Cattle Market; childhood memories of the Picturedrome cinema; the home front in WW2; the deep snowfall of 1947; the Severn Bridge disaster; Fielding & Platt at Christmas; the suitcase; and obtaining a hat). (approx 35 minutes).

12.30pm Behind the scenes guided tour (approx 30 minutes)

1.30pm Behind the scenes guided tour (approx 30 minutes)

2.00pm Family friendly talk by our roaming highwayman

2.00pm “Treasures of the Archives” illustrated talk

2.30pm Behind the scenes guided tour (approx 30 minutes)

3.00pm Film show created from spoken memories (Memories of father in WW1; the Three Choirs Festival; a bomb dropping in WW2; growing up during and after WW2; the 1947 floods; Fielding & Platt at Christmas; a wandering cat; an artist’s impression of Barton and Tredworth scenes; opening a shop on Barton St; and breakfast at a teashop). (approx 35 minutes). N.B. Different film to the film shown at 12pm.

4.00pm Close

And don't miss throughout the day -

• treasure hunt and quiz for children
• tea and cake
• family tree drop-in sessions throughout the day with Gloucestershire Family History Society
• conservation display with one of our conservators
• meet the artists
• exhibitions on
  • 100 Years of Women’s Policing
  • Dame Joan Cook and Gloucester's first grammar school
  • Heritage & Landscape of the Lower Severn (“A Forgotten Landscape” project)
• our volunteers sign-up desk
• selection of original items on display from Gloucestershire Archives’ collections
• live folk music
• a display of photographs of how the building project progressed over the last 18 months

Car parking is available free, by kind permission of Gloucester Rugby, at the club's ground in Kingsholm Road.