STARTING PISTOL RAISED AT THE MUSEUM
Community News July 2012
STARTING PISTOL RAISED AT THE MUSEUM
It’s ‘On Your Marks’ for the Halesworth and District Museum’s response to the Olympics. ‘Halesworth’s Sporting Past’ will be an exhibition tracing the history of sporting activity in the town over the past two centuries – and a very rich pattern of activities that is proving to be.
The exhibition will open on the same day as the Olympics, Friday 27 July, and will run through to the end of August. It will be staged in the Gallery of Halesworth Library and will be open, free of charge, during Library opening hours.
There are still some notable gaps that the organizers are trying to plug. If you have any photographs taken at the late-lamented swimming pool on Dairy Hill, we’d love to hear from you. Or what about the Squash Courts in the Leisure Centre at the George Maltings? And there is still (but only just!) time to nominate your Halesworth Sporting Hero, but you’ll have to be quick. Contact Vic Gray.
Meanwhile the Museum has had a very busy month. Our stand at the Jubilee Celebrations in St Mary’s Church drew much attention with its account of celebrations past, and helped us play our part in marking the occasion. The lecture on Thomas Fella, the newly discovered Elizabethan draper and writing-master from Halesworth, drew a large and very appreciative audience. Don’t forget, if you couldn’t get there, that the new book of Thomas Fella’s drawings, edited by John Blatchly and Martin Sanford, is now on sale at the Halesworth Bookshop.
