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Child enjoying a Jackfield Tile Workshop
Half Term Medieval Tile Workshops
2 September 2008
Medieval tile workshops will be on offer at Jackfield Tile Museum, near Ironbridge, Shropshire during the autumn half-term week from Monday 27 to Friday 31 October.
The Iron Bridge
A Century of Olympic Posters
1 September 2008
A national exhibition of Olympic posters will open on Saturday 27th September at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust’s Coalbrookdale Gallery.
Blists Hill Street Scene
Visit a Victorian Post Office at Blists Hill Victorian Town
29 August 2008
The British Postal Museum & Archive and The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust are pleased to announce the receipt of a £126k grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for the construction of a replica of a working Victorian post office.
Gorgeous
‘Gorgeous’ Contemporary Craft and Fine Food Fair
21 August 2008
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and The Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft are again bringing together some of the West Midlands’ finest craftsmen and women for their annual flagship exhibition, ‘Gorgeous’.
Blists Hill Street Scene
Public Invited To Join Hard Hat Tours
19 August 2008
Members of the public are being invited to join in a free behind-the-scenes hard hat tour of the £12m development project at Blists Hill Victorian Town on the evening of Thursday 21st August.
Blists Hill Street Scene
Hard Hat Tours of the £12m Blists Hill Victorian Town Redevelopment Project
6 August 2008
Tonight (6th August) at Blists Hill Victorian Town a number of local groups and specially invited guests will be taken on a behind-the-scenes hard hat tour of the £12m development project.
child tubelining
Sandford Heritage Education Awards For Two Ironbridge Gorge Museums
4 August 2008
Two of Shropshire’s Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Jackfield Tile Museum and Enginuity, have won national Sandford Awards for excellence in educational services and facilities.
Coalport
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra To Visit Coalport China Museum On Friday 18th July 2008
16 July 2008
On Friday 18th July, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra will visit Coalport China Museum, one of the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums.
Ironbridge
Ironbridge World Heritage Site Marks the 300th Birthday of the Industrial Revolution
16 June 2008
The Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire is known across the world as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, as in 1709 Abraham Darby successfully smelted iron with coke at Coalbrookdale, an innovation which led to iron-making on a massive scale...
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Giant Sleepover
30 May 2008
Children from the Ketley Boys Brigade will be joining an attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous sleepover on the night of Saturday, 14 June.
The IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM TRUST, Coach Road, Coalbrookdale, Telford, TF8 7DQ is a limited company registered in England under the Companies Act 1948 Reg No. 918560 and the Charities Act 1960 Ref No. 503717-R.
The Ironbridge Gorge is a World Heritage Site.