Hey guys,

The Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum in beautiful Telford has been shortlisted as one of the final four museums competing for the Arts Fund Prize for museums and galleries.

I need you to vote for it if you will. Trust me its a great museum, practically every school child in the Midlands will have visited it.

Founded in 1967, the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is one of the largest independent museums in the UK. It operates ten museum sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site which collectively tell the story of the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. These museums receive around 570,000 visits per annum, including 70,000 school visits.

The largest site is Blists Hill Victorian Town, a fifty-four acre site which interprets life in a typical town of the East Shropshire Coalfield around 1900. Blists Hill is brought to life through a unique mix of first and third-person interpretation, combining the efforts of costumed museum staff, professional actors and volunteers.

Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge Museum TrustIn 2009, the Trust completed a transformational development of Blists Hill incorporating a landmark Visitor Centre, a new street of shops – including a Post Office, Fried Fish Dealer, Draper’s Shop, Sweet Shop, Photographers and Artisans’ Quarter – a clay-mining experience and narrow gauge railway and an Incline Lift. Substantial conservation work has been completed on the historic wrought ironworks on site which offers one of the most powerful live demonstrations of any museum in Britain.

http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/vote/index.php

http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/images/longlist-2a.jpg

http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/images/longlist-2b.jpg

http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/images/longlist-2c.jpg

When I voted it was a close second to the Ulster museum so vote (unless you're from NI) and I'll be your friend forever.

done,

btw i don't think they accept yahoo and goolmail servers i had to use my o2 email, one i never use btw, lol.

Cheers Mic :)

I dunno about the email situation, I used my yahoo and it worked ok.

i have registered my approval. knowing i'm on board...they're just going through the motions now.

Good, good. Its currently at 33.8% to Ulsters 36%. Where is Odlum and his Irish mafia? I reckon he'll want to scupper Ulsters dreams.

I've been to that museum and it's absolutely brilliant! Really enjoyed it there - plus, they do the best Cornish pasties EVARRRRRRRRRR!!

eeewwwww

Ulster topped the poll last time and shall do so again :D

Boooo! Down with Ulster.

Don't be saying that.......or I'll have to send the sectarian loyalist mobs over.


According to Jolly they are rampaging across Belfast so would be nice if we could get a break from them.

I voted for the The Ulster Museum by accident. :(











































Not really. ;)

Don't be saying that.......or I'll have to send the sectarian loyalist mobs over.


According to Jolly they are rampaging across Belfast so would be nice if we could get a break from them.

[insert joke about bombs going off causing 4 million pounds worth of improvments to Telford city Town centre (sic) here]
:cheers:

I was going to vote for the Sheffield option but there wasn't one. Sheffield Bicycle Museum misses out yet again. So I had to vote for the Telford one, even though I don't know what it is. :(

So I had to vote for the Telford one, even though I don't know what it is. :(

Gutted Wendy......just gutted :no:

done :) - although i did toy with writing 'cause telfordboy said i should'

Gutted Wendy......just gutted :no:
Can I vote for more than one? If so, I'll vote for yours too. :)

Cunts said no when I applied for a job there a few years ago!

Great museum though, is it too late to get summer work there? :shifty:


And what does winning the competition mean? ...other than Shropshire pride? ;)

I voted for the The Ulster Museum by accident. :(



Not really. ;)

I was getting ready to kick your ass.

[insert joke about bombs going off causing 4 million pounds worth of improvments to Telford city Town centre (sic) here]
:cheers:

Some people might say that bombs are a good way to kick start regeneration :hahano:
Not me though...

I was going to vote for the Sheffield option but there wasn't one. Sheffield Bicycle Museum misses out yet again. So I had to vote for the Telford one, even though I don't know what it is. :(

Excellent Wendikins. Payback for all those times that I've said that Sheffield > Leeds.

done :) - although i did toy with writing 'cause telfordboy said i should'

It would have been pretty funny if a load of the comments said that :lol:

Great museum though, is it too late to get summer work there? :shifty:


And what does winning the competition mean? ...other than Shropshire pride? ;)

Haven't got a clue, a boost to Telfordian egos and a bit of recognition :dunno:

Oh and an award of £100,000 to the winning museum.

We're still winning ;)

Done! ;)
It has gone up!

How many email addresses have you got telfordboy? ;)

I've used my two up!

Done. Voted using mine and my mates email as well.

You're right Telford, brilliant bit of industrial heritage, never been to any of the others but, dare I say it, it's a hard one to beat. I shall vote for it.

Awaits backlash...

Voted :) ...





























For Belfast...

















Twice...
















:tongue2:

That one in Belfast does look pretty good :shifty:

I had only voted once before but now seeing the unscrupulous nature of some of you I'm going to have to use all five of my other email addresses and cheat.

Join in Queen Victoria’s 81st birthday celebrations


Posted by Nadezda Basyrova on May 18, 2010 in Hotel News • No comments


The residents of Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge, Shropshire will be celebrating the 81st birthday of their much-loved Queen Victoria with great style, pomp and pageantry over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, 29th – 31st May. Each day will be a fitting tribute to the gracious lady with an extravaganza of colour, music and street entertainment.

Shrewsbury’s Town Crier will be the master of ceremonies announcing the full programme, welcoming visitors and helping children to follow a trail in search of lost toys, with a lolly reward for those who complete the task. There will also be a barrel organ and performances by the Kaleidoscope Theatre and Prince Albert Players, while the 80th Regiment of Foot, Staffordshire Volunteers will recount tales of the Boer War and there will be a military camp on The Green with displays of arms and equipment.

An impressive collection of vintage bicycles, including the famous High Bicycle (or Penny Farthing), will be ridden around the town by the March Cycle Club; visitors to the New Inn can join in a lively sing-a-long with the pub’s music hall entertainers and, for a small charge, families can watch a traditional Punch and Judy show in the Goods Shed.

As festivities take place, local townsfolk will still be going about their daily lives in the authentic houses and shops, baking bread, counting coins at the bank and serving Victorian remedies in the chemist. Visitors will also be able to watch craftsmen at their work.


http://www.rustourismnews.com/?p=5637

Where else can you celebrate the birthday of a royal that has been dead for 109 years?

The Ulster Museum won!!!!!!!!


:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

Why waste artefacts and culture on the Irish. FFS.

At least we have some Scottish boy, you had to sell all yours to London in order to pay for lard and chips!

Subliving.

The Ulster Museum won!!!!!!!!


:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

I failed miserably to vote multiple times :bash:

Ahh well, never mind. Still its some decent recognition for a relatively small but high quality museum. Congratulations to the Ulster Museum.

There's no history in Ireland/ Northern Ireland. It's all bombs and death. Waste of money.

Everytime I look at the title of this thread I just think someone wants a "favour".

There's no history in Ireland/ Northern Ireland. It's all bombs and death. Waste of money.


Have you changed your name Jolly?


:crazy:


Subliving