Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Village folk museum reopens after a community-led rebuild
Volunteers salvaged tools, songs and a roof that no longer leaked.
A small folk museum in the North East reopened after volunteers rebuilt displays damaged by damp, adding oral histories recorded with local elders.
Opening weekend mixed school visits with a fiddler in the yard—heritage as a living room, not a velvet rope.
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