Including a heritage lunch in the beautiful surroundings of Goff's Park.
By Ken Ridley
Photo from WRVS Heritage Plus Archive
Juliette and Joyce with Crawley Museum's own Janet Roskilly
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Rex Robinson
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Joyce Ludbrook
Photo from WRVS Heritage Plus Archive
Photo from WRVS Heritage Plus Archive
Photo from WRVS Heritage Plus Archive
Photo from WRVS Heritage Plus Archive
Remember Dominos
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A guided tour
On the 1st May, WRVS Crawley, went to the Crawley Museum, for a look around and enjoyed a heritage lunch in Goffs Park.
One of the special features of the Reminiscence Project at the WRVS was a visit organised by Gina and Nicola to the Crawley Museum in Goffs Park.
We congregated at the entrance and were treated to a guided tour of the rooms which displayed details of Crawley's history and also occasionally featured special personalities.
At this time it was a display to commemorate the achievements of Alan Minter and remember in particular the parade through Crawley to celebrate his newly- won champion world title.
A Member on our WRVS course was Joyce Ludbrook who was displaying some of her antique and speciality candle stick holders and lamps.
Les and Margaret Flanagan had a special interest in the display of shoe- maker's equipment some of which they had donated to the museum.
However, in one section there was a tribute to the last surviving shoe-maker in Crawley. Les was happy to point out to the curator that he was the last surviving cobbler and would they please amend the wording accordingly.
We were privileged to have the mayor of Crawley, Sally Blake, in attendance, which was icing on the cake.
Refreshments
This appropriately led to a welcome refreshment break outside the museum in glorious sunshine, after which we congregated in the grounds to indulge in some of the past times of our day including a variety of boxed games including ludo and the ubiquitous dominoes.
Another treat followed where we were able to relive earlier times by sampling some of the traditional old sweets such as gobstoppers, liquorice, humbugs and sticks of rock, conjured up by our genie (Gina).
And there was more...an impromptu invitation to sing some of the old songs which Nicola recorded. Perhaps it was at this time that an idea was germinated to put on a music hall show for the public at some future date.
This concluded a splendid day out for us and we ask you this question...when did you last visit Crawley Museum?