Local news
February 2012
Heritage Society Museum - new exhibition
Burton Latimer Heritage Museum opens its new exhibition, which is called ‘Time for School - and Time to Play’, on Saturday, February 4th. It will feature the lives of children at school, after school and in the holidays since the 1930s.There are dozens of photographs - some old, and some more recent - of school classes, school events, school trips and after-school activities, parades and parties. Display items include school work, magazines, prizes, certificates and medals and reminders of various forms of punishment! The history of some of the town’s school buildings is also a feature and there will be a continuous slide show of other historical photographs.
The museum is open on Saturdays and Thursdays 10am to 1pm and on the last Sunday of each month 1.30pm to 4.30pm. For further details phone 01536 722722.