Shardlow Heritage Centre
Exhibition and Special Events
2013


The main wall exhibition contains sections on Boatbuilders; Shardlow Hall; Wilden Ferry and Cavendish Bridge; the coming of the Trent and Mersey Canal; James Sutton and the Shardlow Boat Company; Soresby and Flack Boat Company; Cowlishaw's Coal Company; the North Staffordshire Railway Company; the milling and animal feedstuffs firm of  F E Stevens Ltd; Public Houses and Breweries including the 200 year history of the site of the Malt Shovel and the neighbouring brewery/maltings building. 

Also, large poster display panels tell the story of St James Church, Wilne Chapel, the village carnival, the House of Industry, the village schools, the tramway, the Ropery and the Henshall family, and a case study of a site on Aston Lane.

There is a full size replica of a narrowboat back cabin which has been named Swift after one of the Shardlow Boat Company's craft. This displays signwriting by Tony Lewery, roses and castles by Jan Deuchar and water cans lent by the family of Ike Argent.

Children visiting can dress in costume. A grant from the Co-op enabled the Centre to commission clothes of the Edwardian period of canal boating.  Elasticated to fit various sizes of small people they can give our younger visitors the feel of life in long skirts or granddad shirts and ‘weskits’. 

In the exhibition cases and displayed around the walls are items related to rural crafts and industries including blacksmiths and cobblers tools, farming implements, bottles from local breweries, and material relating to the Aston to Shardlow tramway. 

A video presentation provides an introduction to the historical port and the present day village.

 
Events 2013
January 12,
Saturday
2.00 p.m.
Management Committee meeting - members welcome
March 26,
Tuesday
 7.00 - 8.00p.m.
 8.00 - 9.00p.m.
Preview evening - everybody is welcome to view the new section of exhibition.
8p.m. AGM of Shardlow Heritage Trust
March 29,
Good Friday
12 noon - 5 p.m.
Heritage Centre re-opens for the 2013 season. 
March 31
April 1
12 noon - 5 p.m.
Easter Sunday and Monday - exhibition of paintings of the inland waterways by Wallace Spence
May 6,
May Day
Monday 
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
For Museums Month we are hosting our annual Shardlow Family History Day- Sheila Cooke, local historian, will be there with some of our archives to help answer your questions about Shardlow families.

Bring your old photographs and documents relating to  Shardlow, Cavendish Bridge and Great Wilne - people, firms, events and buildings - to help us expand our knowledge of the past.

May 30,
6.30 p.m.
Management Committee meeting - members welcome

June 20,
Thursday
7.30 p.m.
MIKRON THEATRE COMPANY       www.mikron.org.uk
Mikron is coming again to the Clock Warehouse.
'Don't Shoot the Messenger!' - when a hoodlum holds up a village post office, the Postmasters want justice ...of the restorative kind....by any means necessary. Can a comical journey through five centuries of postal history rehabilitate the rascally rogue? And what of the Postmasters' own motives - a noble act of public service or the desparation of the doomed? Will they get closure or just get closed?
A story of deliveries and deliverance.
Clock Warehouse, London Wharf, Shardlow, DE72 2HL 
- food available - 01332 792844

(no tickets, collection after the show - noting that ticket sales are normally £10 for this production) 
Mikron playing at the Clock Warehouse, ShardlowMikron's floating base, nb Tyseley

June 22,
Saturday 
12 noon and 
1.00 p.m.
Dolphin Morris Men - Over the weekend of June 21st-23rd 2013 Dolphin Morris will be celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the team with a weekend meeting of Morris Ring clubs. On Saturday, two coach tours will take the dancers to local towns, villages, pubs and attractions including 12 noon at the Malt Shovel and 1.00 pm at the Clock Warehouse. See http://www.dolphin-morris.co.uk/45TH.htm
30 June
Sunday
11a.m. - 5 p.m.
Shardlow open gardens day. The Heritage Centre will be open - usual entry charges.
Gardens Admission charge £3 for adults, children free - covers 10 gardens.
September 1,
Sunday
2 - 5 p.m.
auction 4 p.m.
Shardlow 46th  annual Autumn Show and Auction
fruit & veg; arts & crafts; cookery; flowers; photography; young peoples section
Competitors from outside the village are welcome.
admission 50p, open to public 2 p.m., auction of produce 4 p.m.
autumn show poster
October 27,
Sunday
Last opening day of the season
November 3,
12 noon - 3 p.m.
Members end of season gathering
LINKS TO OTHER PAGES IN THIS SITE
Home Page and update info
Exhibition and Special Events  (THIS PAGE)
Brief History of the Village
1882 Map of Shardlow
Shardlow - placename and surname
A Walk through the Village
Photo Gallery
Village Services
Food and Drink
Links to Related Sites
 
THE WORKING PORT
 IN THE FOLLOWING 5 PAGES:
 Setting the Scene and 1852 Plan
 Carriers by River and Canal at Shardlow
 Boatbuilders at Shardlow
 Other Traders in the Canal Port
 Local Waterways on Old Postcards
 
see home page for indication of which of our pages have recent updates
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last updated on 17 May 2013