Dungeon Masters Needed To Help Run Dorman Exhibition
Volunteer ‘dungeon masters’ are needed to help with a grisly new exhibition at Middlesbrough’s Dorman Museum.
Instruments of Medieval Torture runs from Saturday, June 15 to Tuesday, December 31.
The exhibition explores the horrors inflicted in the name of justice, and features replicas of more than 50 torture methods based on objects amassed by private collectors and historians across Europe.
These include notorious devices such as the interrogation seat, the ....
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Discover Normanby On Foot In Local History Month
Celebrate Local History Month with the Boro Becks team on a fascinating tour of Normanby led by members of the Normanby Local History Group.
Community Outreach Officer Chris Corbett said: “Normanby has a long and intriguing history and this guided walk with local experts will bring this history to life.”
The walk takes place on Thursday, May 16 and starts at the Thorntree Park Pavilion at 9.30am. For car users, meet at the Stewart Park car park at 9am for the minibus to ....
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Captain Cook Birthplace Museum Reopens With Celebration
The spring re-opening of Middlesbrough’s Captain Cook Birthplace Museum is being marked with a family celebration day.
The museum in the town’s historic Stewart Park formally opens for the 2013 season on Good Friday (March 29), with the special event taking place on Monday, April 1.
Entitled ‘New Adventures More Discoveries’, the family day runs from 10am to ....
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Youngsters Explore Berwick Hills Viking Heritage
Young people have been taking a step back in time and exploring the area’s rich Viking heritage.
Members of the Junior Ormesby Beck Friendship Group have been learning all about the past of Ormesby Beck by helping with Viking-themed community arts projects to improve the area.
Orme is a Viking word meaning dragon or serpent, and new artworks installed along improved paths ....
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National Accolade For Leading Stewart Park Apprentice
An apprentice at a historic Middlesbrough park has been recognised at the finals of a national competition.
Caspar Scallen was narrowly pipped to the top spot in the Horticulture Apprentice of the Year Award 2012.
The 23-year-old Stewart Park apprentice was one of five national finalists chosen from entries from more than 40 local authorities in the awards run by the Association for Public ....
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Boro Becks Team Celebrates Discover Middlesbrough
Join the Boro Becks team to celebrate the Discover Middlesbrough’s theme of Great Achievements on a guided walk.
The eight-mile walk is on Thursday, September 20 and starts at Thorntree Park, following the Tees Link path up Spencer Beck to Flatts Lane from where archaeologist Steve Sherlock will guide the group around some of the remains of the ironstone mines which built modern Middlesbrough.
Community Outreach Officer Chris Corbett said: “This walk promises to be a real ....
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Creative Writing & Research Workshops: Writing From History
Teesside writers and experts in creative education Andy Willoughby & Bob Beagrie, of Ek Zuban Literature Development, in association with Stockton Library Service, will run two practical writing workshops in Stockton Central Reference Library, looking at how writers use archive photographs and historical documents to create poetry, fiction and scripts.
Workshop 1: Saturday 3rd December, ....
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School Brightens Up Transporter For Birthday
Youngsters from High Clarence Primary School have taken the centenary celebrations for the Tees Transporter Bridge to their hearts.
With help and advice from Stockton Council’s Care For Your Area team, children from Years 2 and 3 at the school will be planting floral tubs on today (7 October) in a special ceremony with the Deputy Mayoress of Stockton, Councillor Lynne Apedaile, as ....
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Transporter Exhibition Opens At The Dorman
AN EXHIBITION marking 100 years of the Tees Transporter Bridge has opened at Middlesbrough’s Dorman Museum.
The centenary exhibition features original material from the museum’s own collection of Transporter-related objects, artwork and archive photographs, and costumes representing the styles and fashions of the past century.
The Dorman’s archive collection of ....
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Stockton Town House – Open Day
Last weekend thousands of doors were unlocked to churches, country houses and council offices normally out of bounds to the public. The Heritage Open days are now an annual affair when there is a celebration of the culture and rich historical heritage by welcoming the public into the private gems of this country.
On Sunday afternoon I joined a group of Teessiders marching with the ....
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Costume In Th Age Of Captain Cook
For one night only as part of Middlesbrough Fashion Week, join us as we travel back in time and bring alive the clothing and fashions of 18th century Britain and the Pacific Ocean.
This evening at Middlesbrough's reference library, 7.30pm is a fashion display of "Costume in the age of Captain Cook."
Costumes have been researched and created by students from Hartlepool's Cleveland College of Art ....
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What Have The Normans Ever Done For Us?
They get a bad press do the Normans. The current BBC series is trying to even things up a bit but the fact remains they did totally knack the Anglo-Saxons or should that be English and ruled over them in a strange foreign tongue that sounds fairly French from where I’m sitting. Yes but were they all that bad? And did they make any contributions around our neck of the woods?.. you know stuff ....
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Discovering Roman Durham
Imagine having a Roman Fort all to yourself. Free to wander through the remains of a Commanding officers house before moving through the warm, hot and cold rooms of the adjoining bath house. Last (Bank Holiday) Sunday I was in the lucky position of being able to visit Binchester Roman fort completely on my own. Totally brilliant.
It only costs £2.50 to explore the best preserved ....
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Local Mp Hopes To Make Darwin Day A Bank Holiday
A local MP has put forward an early day motion to make Darwin Day a bank holiday in the UK.
Ashok Kumar, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland put forward the motion last month, which currently has 65 MPs from all parties supporting it. However, most of the MPs come from the Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties.
Darwin Day celebrates the achievements of Charles Darwin, ....
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A Day On The Hollow Mountain
It was raining and cold so it must have been the summer of 2008. Maybe not the ideal day to go up into the hills. Then again if you are trying to glean even a glimpse of understanding of the spirit needed and hardship endured by the men that hacked the ironstone from this hollow mountain then it is probably ideal.
Actually the sun was shining when 30 or so of us assembled at Base Camp, ....
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The Romans Are Coming
It was about five years ago that archaeologist Steve Sherlock first started digging at a site high up above Loftus cliffs as research for his phd. Helped by a band of enthusiastic volunteers over the course of a month each summer Steve has uncovered a fascinating snapshot or three into the history and pre history of this part of Redcar and Cleveland. Some of the finds have been of national and ....
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