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What’s Involved

Let the museum come to you and get hands on with history at your own pace. Use this curated box of handling objects to spark conversations and reflect on changes over time. This loan box contains objects that mark memorable moments in time like the Queen’s Coronation and the Festival of Britain, as well as items of the everyday in the 1950s and 1960s like the instamatic camera, pre-decimal coins, magazines and fab fashion. There are suggested activities and prompts for conversations.

What's in the box

  • Bournville paper bag with textile handles
  • Garton’s HP Tomato Ketchup paper bag with textile handles
  • Barrett’s lime squash glass bottle – Early 20th Century
  • Barrett’s soda syphon Circa 1890
  • Twinings tin of Blue Mountain Jamaica Blend Coffee
  • Pearce Duff’s Custard Powder
  • Cow and Gates Farmer’s Wife Cheese paper bag with textile handles
  • Hillaby’s Pontefract Cakes tin
  • National Dried Milk tin Circa 1939
  • Jelly mould
  • Co-op stamp collecting book
  • Ministry of Food ration book 1953-1954
  • Bovril advert Published in 1938
  • Bovril pot
  • Co-op milkman metal sign
  • Glass jar of Horlicks
  • Haigh and Howard Brewery beermat ‘Beer is Best’
  • Tea strainer
  • Peak Frean’s Famous Biscuits tin
  • Farmhouse Kitchen Recipe Book – Published in 1978
  • J. Worthington glass milk bottle
  • Weighing scale weights 1oz, 2oz, 4oz.
  • Fyffes ‘the top banana’ advertisement
  • Egg whisk
  • ‘Fruit and Carnation: A Good Combination’ cardboard advertisement
  • Mystery object

Please note: All ‘Museum In A Box’ loan boxes need to be collected from and returned to Portland Basin Museum. As these loan boxes are part of our handling collection, from time to time we may need to remove or replace some objects.

The box dimensions are approximately 520mm x 440mm x 310mm

Cost: £41 per week (or £7 per day for community groups)