How to find us… By Car Junction 3 of the M55. Take the A585 to and follow the brown signs to the Museum along Dock Street to Queens Terrace. There is a car park (pay and display) behind the F Museum and plenty of free on street parking outside the Museum. By train Nearest rail stations are Poulton-le-Fylde then take bus no. 80/82 or Blackpool North and then use the tram to Fleetwood (Knott End Ferry terminus) or take bus no. 1 or 14.

Access and Facilities Due to the historic layout of this listed building, access for the mobility impaired is difficult. Fleetwood Museum Please do contact us before your visit so we can Queens Terrace, Fleetwood, FY7 6BT make your time here as enjoyable as possible. Tel: 01253 876621 Guide and Assistance dogs are welcome Email: fleetwoodmuseum@.gov.uk Family Friendly www.lancashire.gov.uk/museums Baby changing facilities, disabled toilet, café Open 24th March-31st October 2015 and gift shop. Tuesday-Saturday 11am-4pm and bank Groups Fleetwood holidays weekends. We welcome parties, groups and schools and Adults £3, Concession £2 and accompanied can provide buffets & tours if required. Please Museum children FREE! ask at the reception or telephone for further details. Events and activities 2015

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Exhibitions Family friendly events Somewhere In France Easter Egg Hunt, 31st March -18th April 24th March -13th June 2015 Join us for an Easter Egg Hunt around the This exhibition takes a look at postcards and Museum. Admission Charges apply. letters sent from soldiers to their families during April-October- Saturdays WW1. Focusing on the role of the postcard in If you are visiting us on a Saturday, we have the soldiers’ lives, it explores the difficulties some materials and ideas in our crafts room. of communication, including censorship, If you wish, you and your family can indulge and more. The display consists of letters and in some arts and crafts and make a little postcards from Lancashire County Council’s something to take home. Donations of around own museum and archive collections. The £1 per child to help cover costs of materials exhibition invites visitors to share a little part would be gratefully received. Normal Museum of the lives of the soldiers through their own admission charges apply. words. Time and Tide: Works by Preston Threads inspired by Historical Maritime Collections. 27th June - 1st November Lancashire has a rich maritime past including fishing in Morecambe Bay, tall ships sailing into Lancaster Quay, and thriving docks at WWI Saturdays 12-3pm Fleetwood. 23rd May, 30th May, 6th June & 13th June, Preston Threads, a thriving contemporary textile come along and ‘Meet The Tommy’ Find out group from the Northwest, has taken inspiration what it was like for a soldier on the front line in from our historic maritime collections and the WW1. Join our ‘Tommy’ as he takes you through beautiful local landscape to produce stunning his war experience, explains the kit he has to original pieces. carry and how keeping in touch with loved ones Aiming to promote textile arts, and to challenge at home was so vital. the limits of the medium, the pieces in this exhibition give us new insight into the maritime Also discover more about; past and how it intertwines with our modern ‘The Folks Back Home’ Meet our Alice, she’s lives. doing her bit at home while her brother is off fighting overseas. Discover what life was like for those at home and how letters from the front made a real difference. (Re-enactments delivered by John Meredith and Julie O’ Connell).

Normal museum admission charges apply on these days. October Half term Friends of Fleetwood Museum Freaky Fleetwood Museum Events Tuesday 27th & Thursday 29th October Annual membership of the Friends is £6 Horrid Halloween crafts. Dare to be here! per person and entitles you to free entry to the museum all season. Tickets for events Halloween Spooky Rave will be available from Museum reception Friday 30th October 6-8pm around 6 weeks before an event is due to Spooky fun, games, food and treats for take place. 4–11 year olds. Child ticket £4 from museum reception (accompanying parents free). Parents be warned - there is a spell on the food and Coffee Mornings anyone over the age of 11 eating it will turn A chance to meet and chat, all newcomers into a toad the very next day! Children must be made welcome. Enjoy a lovely coffee and accompanied by an adult. some beautiful cakes! On Wednesdays 10.30 am-11.30am: 25th March, 29th April, 27th May, 24th June, 29th July, 26th August, 30th September & 28th October. Thursday 23rd April 4.00-6.00pm Seaside Special St. George’s Day Friday 12th June, 6.30-9pm. A refined afternoon with tea and cake and Join us for all the fun of the seaside, including the readings from English writers in the Victorian amazing and wonderful Punch and Judy (shows Dining room. Tickets £3. at 7pm & 8pm). Many stalls and games, tombola, lucky dip, face painting, hot dogs, cakes & pop. Monday 27th April 8.30am Fun for all the family! Adults £2 and children free. Trip to Saltaire and Bradford. Visiting the Tickets available at Museum reception. Children industrial village of Saltaire & Salts Mill-a must be accompanied by an adult. World Heritage Site and the National Media Museum in Bradford. Stars and Stripes Saturday 4th July 2-4pm Come and join us for an American experience - Wednesday 6th May 7.00pm hot dogs, brownies and all things ‘Uncle Sam’! A Psychic Evening-atmospheric evening in Adults £2 and children free. Tickets available the Victorian Dining room. at Museum reception. Children must be Wednesday 13th May 7.00pm accompanied by an adult. Friends Annual General Meeting and presentation of rare old images of Fleetwood. Fabulous Fleetwood Crafts Family activities from April-October. If you’re Monday 6th July 8.30am looking for ideas to entertain and inspire the little Trip to Port Sunlight and the Lady Lever ones during the holidays, please see below: Art Gallery with option to visit the National Arts and Crafts on Tuesdays & Thursdays Heritage Walks and Talks Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port. Illustrated Talks 2015 12.30-1.30pm & 2-3pm. Suitable for 4 -11 year Please note that the talks take place on the Tuesday 13th October 7.00pm olds. £1 per child to help cover costs of materials. first floor - people with mobility problems may Musical evening with Scold’s Bridle Booking required. Tel: 01253 876621 between find the stairs difficult. £1 per person donation including ‘We are the Women’ - a look at the 11am and 4pm. request for talks. lives of the fishermen’s wives. Delicious fish and chips supper to start the evening. Tickets £9. Easter Wednesday 15th April at 2pm A Hug in the Post Around the Great War in Twenty Objects, Friday 27th November 7.00pm Tuesday 31st March & Thursday 2nd April Jennifer Ray Lancashire Night with traditional supper and - inspired by our exhibition of First World War Wednesday 20th May at 2.30pm entertainment at Fleetwood Bowling Club. messages sent by soldiers to their loved ones. Blackpool North Pier, Wendy Stevenson Songs, dialect poems, quiz and a traditional Come and make your own postcard for someone Wednesday 17th June at 2pm hot pot supper. Tickets £8. special. The Falklands Conflict - A Personal Wednesday 16th December 2.00pm Perspective, Andy Stevens Christmas Capers. A traditional afternoon May Half Term Wednesday 15th July at 2pm seasonal party with entertainment, music and Peg Dolls The 175th Anniversary of the Railway parlour games in the Victorian dining room. Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28th May arriving in Fleetwood, Poulton and Wyre Tickets £4 . Come and make a peg doll nurse, solider or Railway Soc. both! Thursday 28th January, 7.00 for 7.30pm, Wednesday 19th August at 2pm Friend’s Annual Dinner at the North Euston The Works of a Local Songwriter, Playwright, Hotel. Tickets approximately £20-£25 for Summer Poet and Artist over 40 years, Ron Baxter three course meal with coffee. Tattybogle Time Wednesday 16th September at 2pm Tuesday 28th & Thursday 30th July Songs of the Sea, talk and performance by Make your own miniature scarecrow. singer and speaker, Derek Gifford Ancient masks Wednesday 21st October at 2pm Tuesday 4th & Thursday 6th August Ghosthunter - The Life and Times of a Create your own home-made history from a Fleetwood Paranormal Investigator, cardboard box! Stuart Leadbetter Designer Pegs Tuesday 11th & Thursday 13th August Change Guided Heritage Walks a clothes peg into ...you can decide! Walks are led by Dick Gillingham, local historian, starting from the museum. Usually Small World Wonders lasting around 2 hours. £3 per person. Tuesday 18th & Thursday 20th August Old Fleetwood Weds. 29th April 1.30pm Using junk modelling materials create anything from a jungle to your own planet! Old Fleetwood Thursday 18th June 6.30pm Fleetwood - The Early Resort Tuesday Wondrous Weaving September 8th 1.30pm Tuesday 25th & Thursday 27th August Day Wednesday 30th Be inspired by our exhibition- weave your own September 1pm - talk followed by a short walk. work of art. Terrific Textiles Tuesday 1st & Thursday 3rd September Design your own emblem using a variety of materials.