Indi

Studying MA Heritage Theory and Practice at @plymuni. Museum Coordinator at @liskeard_museum. Thoughts and views are my own. She/Her.

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✨Photos from our past✨

This week’s photo comes from 1955 and shows Queen Elizabeth II signing the visitors’ book, walking along Barras Street in Liskeard. As part of her two-day royal tour she, alongside the Duke of Edinburgh, visited places around Cornwall and Devon.

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As house numbers weren't a thing at the time, these fire badges were designed to be stuck on the front of the houses to show if they were insured and by who.

Some, such as the one below from the Royal Exchange Assurance of London, included individual policy numbers on them.

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🔥From the Stores🔥

After the Great Fire of London 1666, insurance companies started popping up around the country with their own fire brigade. The firemen would save the insured homes, but let the other houses burn!

The issue was: how would they know which houses were insured?

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By 1904, it had been refined to the style we still use today! ✏️

Does it bring back any memories for you? [3/3]

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The cylindrical or ‘planetary’ pencil sharpener was first developed in Chicago in 1896, offering an alternative to the traditional ‘prism’ models that were prone to breaking pencil leads. [2/3]

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✨From the Stores ✨
This ‘Super’ automatic sharpener is a fine example of a London made machine designed to be mounted on the desktop.

It is estimated to be from the 1950s and may have spent some of its life in a local school. [1/3]

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Last week we had a student from @Liskeard_School join us for work experience.

We asked him to research a topic of his choice relevant to Liskeard, and design and create an online exhibition for it.

You can view his excellent exhibition on firefighting👇

https://t.co/Evr5uMhn0G

[Indi @india_jolly]

@Toriwriter I vividly remember it being in Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison! (book, maybe not film)

[Indi @india_jolly]

Bonus points if it involves paper plates! #museumlife #museumhelp #tinmining #coppermining #summerholidays

[Indi @india_jolly]

A random call for help from anybody crafty, arty and history-y..

With the summer holidays looming, I'm trying to come up with an craft activity based around tin/copper mining. A leave instructions for parents on the table and let them crack on kinda thing. Any suggestions?

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We're looking for new volunteers to join our team!

If you're interested in local history and can spare one day a week to help keep us open and running, we'd love to hear from you!

Find out more, and download an application form 👇
https://t.co/F4PL3Olicf

[Indi @india_jolly]

Really enjoyed finding this letter, photo and paper clipping from a soldier who was based in Liskeard in 1943.

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✉️From the Stores✉️

Whilst looking for information on The Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) in Liskeard during WW2, we found this letter from South Wales born Frank Gard.

Written to the town clerk in 1985, Frank recalls his time based in the town with the RAOC in 1943.

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✨Photos from our past✨

Today we are sharing a photo of the Liskeard Town Band c1970 with the then town mayor, Stanley Salter.

Who do you recognise from this photo? #liskeard #museum

[Indi @india_jolly]

@leahmason2009 Musuem. Every single time.

[Indi @india_jolly]

@BohemianAtmosp1 @MissFlowerPixie @MaizyDaizyZzzz @Aja02537920 @PlymUni That's funny, because not one person I know gives a shit about trans people using their toilets. And most of the people I know are the female students, graduates and staff at university who you're all so eager to "protect".

[Luke Pollard MP @LukePollard]

I’ve just opened the debate on banning bee-killing pesticides in Parliament. These pesticides paralyse, confuse and kill bees. I want a strong ban and an updated strategy from Government to restore bee populations. I bloody love bees. It’s time to #savethebees ❤️🐝

[Indi @india_jolly]

.@plymouthcc stopped giving out recycling bags, causing the houses around Clifton Pl. to rely on communal bins which aren’t emptied regularly enough, so the street looks like this nearly weekly. People want to recycle, you should provide adequate service for them to do so!

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Today is the last day the museum will be open in 2021!

We would like to thank everybody for their support this year and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

We will be reopening on January 5th. See you in the new year.

[History @HistoryPlymouth]

Congratulations to our @PlymUni colleague Dr James Gregory on the publication of 'Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960' by @BloomsburyBooks https://t.co/WE4z7qvmwG

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Join us on the 20th & 21st December for some Cornish Christmas activities!

We've got a trail around the museum, a fun activity sheet where you can learn some Cornish Christmas words and some great crafts for the kids to get involved with! #nadeliklowen