Today was the first day of the new program of volunteer led tours of the Bradford Industrial Museum, and I think it went rather well, if I do say so myself!
Marco, my fellow tour guide, and I, led three tours round the museum, two of the mill owner's house and the back to back cottages, and one of the spinning and weaving galleries. Hopefully we taught the visitors a few new things; I shared my newfound knowledge of the spinning process which I've been revising all week! And we learnt a thing or two ourselves - what a siren suit is, for instance (a warm woollen 'onesie' worn over your PJs when the air raid siren went off), and Marco looked rather embarassed when a group of ladies tried to explain to him what a pawn shop was. They thought his misunderstaning of the term 'pawn' was quite hilarious!
There should be volunteers running tours of the different aspects of the museum every Sunday afternoon from now on, so if you're interested in our industrial heritage, steam power, vintage cars, or simply how people used to live in the olden days, come along and see us at the Industrial Museum in Eccleshill.
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