Weld's painting of Gibbon Bridge Farm: now a hotel
Friday 25 October 2013
The end is in sight
The project is drawing to a close now and we are working hard to get all the research materials and images into digital form so that they can be uploaded to our leapinthepark webpage (which will sit on www.forestofbowland.com) and also to our Leap in the Park app. We hope to launch both of these at our end of project celebration on Sunday December 1st, to be held at St Mary's church hall in Chipping. We will have lots of work on display and in addition Lindsey Wallace from the Harris Museum & Art Gallery will be bringing along the lovley Weld watercolours, plus Jennie Anderson will be returning to Bowland to show us the original deer park reconstruction paintings she has produced for us.
Friday 4 October 2013
Apprentice scribes in Tudor times
This week, ten year six pupils from Brabin's Endowed Primary school in Chipping visited Lancashire Archives as part of the education work the Leap in the Park project has been undertaking, led by ex Headteacher Glynis Goldsbrough. Lots of resources to help pupils find out more about the deer parks at Leagram and Radholme, using all parts of the curriculum, are now available to download from our website
The trip was organised by Lancashire Museums Service and the children were visiting Preston to become apprentices to Queen Elizabeth I's royal scribe, Thomas Coldfield. They spent the morning learning their letters, illuminating texts, making seals and finding out a lot about Elizabethan life and the deer parks. They also had chance to go into the Archive store to view some original 400 year old manuscripts actually signed by Good Queen Elizabeth and bearing her seal. We found out how parchment was made ( ugh!) and how the beeswax seal was used to show who the important letter was from, even though many Elizabethan people could not read the text, even if it was in English!
We hope to take another class to the archives soon, so if you are at a primary school in Lancashire studying the Tudors this term, get in touch!
The trip was organised by Lancashire Museums Service and the children were visiting Preston to become apprentices to Queen Elizabeth I's royal scribe, Thomas Coldfield. They spent the morning learning their letters, illuminating texts, making seals and finding out a lot about Elizabethan life and the deer parks. They also had chance to go into the Archive store to view some original 400 year old manuscripts actually signed by Good Queen Elizabeth and bearing her seal. We found out how parchment was made ( ugh!) and how the beeswax seal was used to show who the important letter was from, even though many Elizabethan people could not read the text, even if it was in English!
We hope to take another class to the archives soon, so if you are at a primary school in Lancashire studying the Tudors this term, get in touch!
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