Category Archives: Volunteering

Living History Weekend

We spent the weekend at the Liverpool World Museum. The museum was occupied by Romans, Vikings and Medieval Knights. I got to show visitors my electronic card game Tickets Please and do some town crying, Jingle Joe showed off his more »

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Victorian Christmas at Edge Hill

I volunteered at the Victorian Christmas at Edge Hill Station. It was very popular and busy this year! We had food, drink, craft stalls, raffles and tombolas. We also some excellent performances from Platform, the Suitcase Ensemble and the Formby more »

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Edge Hill Archives Launch

The Edge Hill Archives launched today and it was a huge success! The Metal team have been busy collecting oral histories, photographs and Artifacts relating to the history of Edge Hill Station and the surrounding area. They also exhibited “Archive more »

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Spring on the Waterfront

The Spring Waterfront festival started today with street theatre, dockwatch, tall ships, steam tugs, canal boats and sea shanties. Jolly good fun. I bumped into Photonutter while I was there, he was kind enough to take a few pictures of more »

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More Quackers

Another successful day volunteering in the museum today. My main activity today was making Rocking Ducks out of paper plates, however I also made some cartoon duck cutouts, duck masks and DNA. There were some children there too… they kept more »

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Duck Tails

Today I did my first day volunteering at the Liverpool World Museum. “Go Quackers” currently has 40,000 rubber ducks and are promoting Claire House’s Duck Race in July. Today’s project was get children involved in drawing ducks and “Identity hands” more »

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