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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

  • Robertson’s advertisement
  • Air flight receipt
  • Farm certificate
  • Victoria Mill compliment slip
  • Rules of operating cotton spinners and twiners
  • Senior Service cigarette tin
  • Glass codd bottles
  • Cotton Weaver’s knotting tool
  • Cotton spools
  • Cotton Shuttle
  • 2 x Gloves made in Denton
  • Safety goggles
  • High vis jacket
  • Express Dairies long service letter and badge
  • Barrett’s lemonade photograph
  • Farm photographs
  • Lion Brand Donkey Stone
  • Fight Low Pay’ union badge
  • Nalgo Union badge
  • Safety mining torch
  • ‘Clocking in Clocking Out’ book of poems and photographs
  • 2 x Hat brushes
  • Trilby hat
  • Linney hats advery
  • Wolfenden and Co ticket
  • Cotton textile exhibition hankie
  • Cotton Queen hankie
  • Cotton Queen district finalist 1939
  • 3 Sheets of photographs featuring Tameside hat and glove makers
  • Blue nylon overall
  • 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)