Loan Boxes and Talks

Tameside Museums and Galleries

Photos © copyright Christine Fowler

Loan Boxes

We offer a range of loan boxes containing objects from our collections. All loan boxes have been developed in line with the National Curriculum. They are available to borrow for two weeks at a time.

Domestic life - Victorian / Early 20th Century
Includes a dolly tub, posser, flat iron, ceramic hot water bottle, donkey stone and carbolic soap.

Victorian Schoolroom
Contains 35 replica slates and pencils, a cane, a backboard, attendance certificate and practice handwriting sheets. Ideal for classroom use.

Toys - Victorian through to Modern
Includes a bucket and spade, Sindy doll, toy train and replica Victorian toys.

Teddy Bears
Includes teddy bears, books, photographs and fabric samples showing how teddy bears are made.

Faiths
Artefacts relating to different faiths, including Christian, Hindu, Islamic and Jewish artefacts.

Home Front
Includes an ID card, ration book, dried milk tin and Air Raid Warden's badge.

Made In Tameside
Artefacts relating to local industries, including mills, hatting, gloving, Robertson's jam and Barrett's mineral water bottles.

Childhood
Includes a wind-up toy frog, ration book, school cap, school text book and 1960s radio. Ideal for reminiscence sessions.

Post 1940s
Includes a hair dryer, plastic sauce bottle, Coronation souvenir, coins and a magazine.

Hobbies and Leisure
Includes a camera, sewing items, hair curlers, programmes from Belle Vue, photographs and much more.

Mystery Objects
What is in this box? Now that would be telling...

To book a loan box or to see if a themed box can be tailored for your needs, please ring the Social History Curator, Rachel Cornes, on 0161 343 2878.

Talks

Each year museum and gallery curators offer a limited number of talks on and off site. Please contact the relevant curator on 0161 343 2878.

- Rachel Cornes, Social History Curator - Social and industrial history of Tameside, Reminiscence sessions
- Marie Knudsen, Art Curator - Current exhibitions, the Astley Cheetham collection
- Garry Smith, Military Curator - History of the Manchester Regiment

• Teachers' Resources and INSETs

Contact Information
Send us a Message	Portland Basin Museum Portland Place Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0QA View local map
0161 343 2878
0161 343 2869