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Susan Kirby

@sortandsurvive

Sort & Survive undertakes museum based projects and advises individuals on re-homing special possessions. Associate of the Museums Association.

 London, England
sortandsurvive.co.uk
Joined May 2015
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My new commute to work.. or at least to Hampstead Heath Station.
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Happy 93rd birthday, Vestry House Museum! Lovely day for a celebratory cup of tea not forgetting a slice of cake. ⁦@WalthamForestCo⁩
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Just time to catch #EntagledLives Art, Colonialism and Change at the ⁦@royalacademy⁩ Finishes 28 April
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🎉 In 2024 we’re celebrating 25 years of the Jack Petchey Foundation! Check out some of the highlights from our anniversary launch event last week at City Hall! What are your highlights of the past 25 years of JPF? Tell us by using #JPF25 🎥
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Lovely comments from visitors to Vestry House Museum last week. The Museum and Garden have now closed ready for a complete revitalisation and will open again in 2026. ⁦@WalthamForestCo⁩ @vestryhousemuseum #E17 #museums #localhistory
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Modes (museum database) trading this morning and we are fully prepared! @modes @sortandsurvive @HodgettsSoph #documentation
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From the Archive: Sir Jack Petchey's First Investment Plan jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk…

From the Archive: Sir Jack Petchey's First Investment Plan

  As part of the 25th birthday celebrations of the Jack Petchey Foundation, the Foundation are creating an archive of all things Sir Jack Petchey! This includes photographs, diaries, publications,...

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Can’t believe that it is a year since Nick published his book ‘Reel Life Behind the Screen: A Cinema Manager Remembers’. Here it is on the Recommendations shelf at @keatscommunitylibrary Available ⁦@BFI⁩ Bookstore, ⁦@JohnSandoe⁩ ⁦@matadorbooks⁩
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Another constructive meeting @jackpetcheyfoundation This bronze bust of Sir Jack Petchey, businessman and philanthropist has just been presented to the Foundation’s artworks collection at The Dockmaster’s House at #WestIndiaQuay
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And revisited the wonderful @museumoftheamericanindian, my favourite of contemporary museum buildings.
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This was new to me, a #museumstudies program being advertised on the subway. This was in Washington DC, home of some of the greatest museums in the world. Enjoyed visiting the superb @museumofafricanamericanhistory
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My commute this morning! ⁦@CanaryWharfLive⁩ ⁦@TfL⁩ #DocklandsLightRailway #overground @jackpetcheyfoundation
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My commute to work this morning
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My commute home today! Refreshment courtesy of the blackberries growing in the hedgerows #bumpercrop. Last time at @StanstedPark. @GeorgeFarmiloe&Sons archive is transferred to @LondonMetropolitanArchives on Wednesday #archives #businesshistory
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So pleased to help settle Katy Hodges into her new job at the Jack Petchey Foundation, London as Archivist today.⁦@JPFoundation⁩ #DockmastersHouse #archives #EastLondon #Essex #youngpeople
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Very good day at #WestIndia Quay interviewing a temporary archivist for the @JackPetcheyFoundation which is now 25 years old and has an extensive collection of photographs, records,scrapbooks and other memorabilia commemorating both the Jack Petchey businesses and the Foundation.
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In Derbyshire for a family wedding. Perhaps the estate could do with some help with its records. Here a deeds box is moonlighting as a coffee tabl. ⁦@TissingtonHall⁩ #records #archives #derbyshirehistory ⁦@Derbyshirecc⁩
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