HSHAZ CULTURAL PROGRAMME: Three dimensional shop signs

Through 2022-23, Time and Tide Museum took part in the Great Yarmouth High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) Cultural Programme. Five youth groups worked alongside five artists to create five spectacular three-dimensional shop signs. The signs were inspired by historic trades and buildings in the Heritage Action Zone. The project included research trips in the

Looking back at past exhibitions at Time and Tide – Part 5: 2018 to Present

After a fantastic look back at 14 or so years of Exhibitions at Time and Tide, Diane has passed the baton over to me to write about the more recent exhibitions from the past 3 years for this “Throwback Thursday” post. I started as Exhibitions Officer in April 2018 and have been lucky enough to

Caister Academy Meets Iceland

Over the last few weeks, a group of students from Caister Academy have been meeting virtually online as part of a transatlantic project with young people from The Herring Era Museum in Siglufjörður, Iceland. The group said that it was great to “speak to new people”, “learn about new cultures” and “learn new things” which

Great Yarmouth and the Slave Trade?

We have recently made a few alterations to our ‘Great Yarmouth: A Trading Town’ gallery that enable us to acknowledge the role of slavery and the slave trade on the economic development and trade of Great Yarmouth. We have not removed the existing narratives and stories that build a picture of trade in Great Yarmouth

The HMS Amelia and a History of Slavery

By Wayne Kett, Great Yarmouth Museums Curator In our previous blog we highlighted some recent changes to our Great Yarmouth: A Trading Town gallery. This blog takes a more in depth look at the story behind the two paintings we added to the gallery. On Sunday the 30th May 1813 three small boys were baptised

Transcribing the past: Letters between sisters during WW2

Earlier in the year due to the coronavirus pandemic we sadly had to suspend our on site volunteering opportunities and as I write, they remain suspended. However our wonderful team of volunteers along with a few new recruits have not let this adversity stop them continuing to support the museum and have been undertaking documentation

Covid Kid

Throughout September and October we ran a survey and collecting project called ‘Candid about Covid‘. In total we received 170 responses, a big thank you to everybody who participated. Over the next few blogs we want to share a few stories and a sample of the digital objects we have been able to add to

Troll Carts of Great Yarmouth

By Diane Marks, Finance and Admin Assistant On display at the Tolhouse Gaol is what we believe to the be the last surviving original troll cart in Great Yarmouth. During research for the #Tolhouse60 project, I thought it would be interesting to learn more about troll carts – the photo below is one of my

What came first, the Chicken or the Egg? Part Two Eggs

By Phillip Miles, Exhibitions Officer I know the last blog exclusively dealt with Chickens in the Time and Tide collection. But with eggs being the topic of this blog post I thought I might cast the net a bit wider (and larger). Eggs come in many different shapes and sizes, as do the birds that

Edmund Lacon

By Rachel Everson, Curatorial Volunteer Edmund Lacon was born Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon on 14th August 1807 to Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, 2nd Baronet, and Elizabeth Beecroft, and studied at Eton College and Emmanuel College Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1828 and an M.A. in 1831. In 1839, Edmund Lacon inherited baronetcy, becoming Sir