The team responsible for the Scarborough Museums and Galleries Collections.
Scarborough, England
Joined August 2016
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It's only been five years, but it's Robert Forster, Mayor (1869–1870 & 1884–1885)!
Right then lanternslide detectives! I have some photo's of Scarborough personalities (mainly Mayors by the looks) but none have any names with them! I recognise a few but your help identifying the rest would be great!
Number 1
#lockdownlanternslides
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It's #WorldMonkeyDay 🐒🐒🐒
Here from the Clarke Charms Collection we have two soapstone 'Silent Monkeys' 🙊.
A popular good luck charm durning WW1, one of which was carried by a Scarborough soldier during the Great War.
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Although they're extinct, we're still learning about this brilliant bird.
Our collection holds six amazing great auk eggs – one is almost 250 years old!
In 2017, we started a project with @sheffielduni to study the eggs, which is teaching us about the bird's breeding ecology🤯
ALT Photograph of the six great auk eggs in the Museum collection. Each egg is encased inside a cushioned box with an information card underneath. The eggs are speckled with dark flecks.
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This jolly #Xmas circular (1882) for #shopping at W Rowntree's of #Scarborough promises "fancy goods" suitable for Christmas and New Year's presents #ArchiveAdventCalendar @ARAScot
ALT Colour flyer for Christmas Presents
It's #WorldEnvironmentDay! How can Museums contribute to environmental knowledge? Biological collections hold millions of samples of species collected from known locations on known dates. This can help demonstrate canges in distribution as well as being a huge scource for DNA.
ALT Herbarium specimen of Yew collected at Box Hill, Sussex in April 1881.
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Siege coins were emergency issues of coinage improvised by officials in cities under siege, and often cut up from dinnerware & jewellery.
Here's a short history just published by @CoinWeek: coinweek.com/emergency-money…
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Flying high over #Scarborough in Henri Salmet's Bleriot monoplane must have been quite an #adventure during the summer of 1913! #EYAAdventure #ExploreYourArchive
ALT Black and white photograph of people sat on early monoplane
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We lucked out on the weather today for our Grimshaw trail with Wykeham School. Exploring the places in Scarborough that Grimshaw loved and painted 🌚 – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
As we've entered the new #LunarNewYear and it's the #YearOfTheRabbit here's a picture of some gentlemen judging a rabbit competition from our photo archives 🐰🐰🐰...
In honour of Scarborough's NYE visit by Thor the Walrus, here's a little walrus treat from the William Clarke Charms Collection. Inuit amulets from Parry's Island. Made out of walrus ivory. Likely used as fishing equipment utilising the lure of sympathetic magic...
Well, this is rather wonderful! A zoomable geology map of the world!
macrostrat.org/map/
All hail the Scarborough Snorker!
When I read that Scarborough has an association with the chipolata sausage, like Spain has with chorizo, I felt research was needed & there IS a famous recipe going back 139 years. Well, I never knew that! ... & they're sold nearby @ProudfootGroup
proudfootsupermarkets.com/la…
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The answer to last week's mystery object: paoloviscardi.com/2022/10/21…
Today's Wordle seems to be upsetting people.
Wordle 454 4/6
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Here's a clue from the grave goods of Gristhorpe Man.
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I love this old Fossil Grove booklet held in the Scarborough Collections - it cost one shilling when it was published in 1948 🖤
As part of #ScotGeolFest there’s an open day on Sun 18th from 12-4, head along to visit this fossilised Carboniferous forest in the heart of Glasgow 🎉
ALT Image showing an old booklet. The text reads “the story of the fossil grove - Victoria park, glasgow - price: one shilling.