PEOPLE who have contributed to a year-long local history project at Huddersfield’s Tolson Museum will gather tomorrow to celebrate their achievement.
They will meet at the museum in Ravensknowle Park, off Wakefield Road to share their experiences from taking part in the Inspiring A Sense of Place project.
The project started a year ago and saw local people study collections not normally on view at the museum and also donate their own family treasures, local knowledge and anecdotes.
Items brought in included Victorian postal scales, a 1930s porcelain shoe wedding cake decoration and a Marie Lloyd waistcoat.
The project covered five themes – A Hundred Years of Shopping, The World of the Textile Mills, Sport and Sporting Heroes, Hatched, Matched and Dispatched and Origins of Places and People.
At Saturday’s event, a film, Capturing A Sense Of Place, will be shown for the first time.
It records what happened during the year on the project.
There will also be a presentation about some of the objects, plus a strawberry tea.
A piece of felt artwork, inspired by archive photographs of mills, will be in display. It was made by parents of children at Rawthorpe Junior School.
Guests at the event will include Mayor of Kirklees Clr Karam Hussain. The museum and displays will be open to the public.
