Christmas 2018 at the Old Slaughterhouse The festive season is finally upon us! Here at the Old Slaughterhouse, we are all very excited about Christmas and even more excited about celebrating with the community! Christmas began at the Old Slaughterhouse at the end of November with our 1940s Make Do and Mend Christmas Installation. We […]
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Evening Workshops 2018 Gallery 2018 has been a great year! Here are some of the highlights from our 2018 evening workshops. We will be running our next term of evening courses from March 2018 onwards. In addition, due to popular demand, we will also be running more daytime Sunday courses – an opportunity to spend more […]
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Heritage Open Days 2018: A Celebration of Warwickshire’s Land Girls This year for Heritage Open Days, we had the pleasure of throwing an event celebrating Warwickshire’s Land Girls, to accompany our exhibition ‘Warwickshire’s Land Girls: The Food of Love’. Our project began earlier on this year when we were lucky enough to interview eight local […]
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KERPLUNK ‘A TANTALISING GAME OF NERVE AND SKILL’ The Old Slaughterhouse has a 1967 version of the popular game Kerplunk. The box has its original price sticker showing that it cost £1.95 and was bought from W.H.Smith & Son. The game Kerplunk was first manufactured in 1967 following its invention by the famous mid-twentieth century […]
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Welcome to our blog! We will be using this as a space for our volunteers to write about things relating to local heritage that interest them. Our youth volunteers will be focusing on specific items in the centre and researching their history. These will form part of our living archive celebrating the heritage of Stratford-upon-Avon. […]
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