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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That'll keep the rain off. We are hugely grateful to the Sizewell C Community Foundation and to Museum Development South East, whose grants have funded the restoration of our Archive Store roof, and to Ian Culf for the splendid work.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Herds of Citroens & Stags swept majestically across our museum yards last Sunday. Wonderful to see these beautiful cars in the glorious Spring sunshine.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Ooh. Misplacing your ink. Galling, isn't it? 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Where/when will the session be, please?

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Oh. Soz. 😳 I wasn't in the room.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The almost incalculable debt the country owed all of the women that took up roles in agriculture and manufacturing during the World Wars was largely repaid with a 'thanks for your efforts, the men are returning now, so get back to your kitchens' response. Beveridge has a lot to answer for.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

How is it that the BBC continually overlooks that, because it is funded directly by our licence fees, all it creates and collects belongs to us. Of they want to drastically alter how media is made available to us, they need to ask us first.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I'll be in touch tomorrow with an order (can't promise 'large', but...) and...

Our wonderful Welsh Terrier, Brodie. An aspiring airship pilot prior to crossing the rainbow bridge last year.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I'm chill with emailing you a thing. What would you like?

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Well, you're a bear, so I can see how people could come across as a hot mess. 😬

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The GLAM sector is properly under the cosh at present, yet you will find things of wonder and immersive engagement in even the humblest of museums. Please visit us, and help to keep our glorious and unique heritage and culture alive.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I say! That's jolly kind of you. Have to say, I'm pretty fond of Royston Museum (though, TBH, pressure of work has kept me away from there for too long).

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Whatever the Romans had instead of a Surrey with a fringe on top, it was coming this way according to this floor fragment in Museu de Menorca (here on important fact finding mission).

Fragment of Roman era tile floor, depicting a goose and a duck a-scurrying.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I knew I should have bet on her to place rather than win. I think the going was rather firm for her liking. Oh well, that's another half crown I won't see again...

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

2028, you say? That must be a VERY fast attack craft! 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It was a wonderful, inspirational evening! Congratulations to all (particularly the children) who worked so hard to make it happen. #longshopsoundmachine

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Until recently, when we instigated a stricter entry policy (repaired the roof), the fascination of the objects in our Long Shop galleries was too much for the local avian community to resist. Once they were in, it was all we could do to drag them away.

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a pigeon is standing on its hind legs on a table .

Alt: A pigeon doing it's best 'Stayin' Alive' strut as it enjoys our industrial heritage galleries - who knew?

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

When you think your newly surfaced car park is pretty snazzy, then these amazing creatures turn up to really make the place look tidy.

Three classic Alvis motor cars gracing the car park at the Long Shop Museum.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Has the duck been demanding, too?

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

When you've spent the last six months refurbishing, refreshing, and reinventing your museum, this is the sort of visitor feedback that makes it all worthwhile.

An immensely gratifying extract from our visitor book. The entry describes the museum as 'amazing', 'overwhelming', and a 'MUST SEE' 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

That bull had strayed into the hemp field, I'm thinking, if ya get me, my dudes... 😎😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's a rather stylised lioness. Garrett’s symbol of 'Strength, Silence, Speed'

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

One of the more obvious elements of our restoration work. Our glorious re-gilded weathervane shows off its shimmer against a Spring Suffolk sky!

Gilded weathervane featuring silhouettes of a steam engine, a threshing machine, and four ploughs. The Garrett lioness sits proudly atop it all.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We're open! Apologies for the period of radio silence, we were preoccupied with preparations for reopening after five months of refurbishment work.

Polished brass hubcap of a traction engine wheel reflecting the image of the West end of the Long Shop.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Well done! You earned this. (sound on) Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Ooft! That is one of the lovliest things you've posted (and the bar was already high). What beautiful bower!

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Wow! That would make it a truly mighty menhir! I reckoned that about a third of its exposed height being buried would have done the job.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

There are, I think, a few superstitious traditions linked to hammering coins into tree trunks - some believed that you'd grow rich as the tree grew and flourished; others that ill-luck, or an ailment, could be transferred into the tree.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Do we know how much there is underground? I'm assuming there's a buried section that's keeping it upright.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

'So, Mr...Holdfast, if that is your real name...would you care to explain to me why your grubby little prints are all over our records? We're on to you, matey, things are falling apart fast now, and justice, like rust, never sleeps!'

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This'll make an interesting by-election 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Well, if @yorkadventurers.bsky.social is to be believed, that statement is true simply 'cos Sussex has you in it. We think we have a certain modest appeal, but admit that sometimes our social awkwardness drops us from a solid 8 to a timorous 7. 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Quiet quitting. Right there. 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I would love to help you out - when can you relocate to Suffolk? 😂

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reason that lunchtime drinking is ill-advised. 😁

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

'Now that he was stood on the starting line, George felt an urgent need to revisit his decision to sign up the 10k fun run...'

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I find myself replete in the way of sasages, though you've quite turned my head with your fine bowpots.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thanks to the largesse of the Rolo elves 😉, I have come into possession of these uber-cool things. @BarnsleyMuseums.bsky.social Top Trumps! The recommended age is 6+, but I had supervision, and had a cracking time learning about Barnsley's FIVE awesome museums!

Open and poorly fanned deck of Top Trumps cards alongside red and transparent plastic case.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

You do know that you have to be carried head high on a chair with no seat, and sans sous-vêtements, Chris? 🤣

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Well, you will keep posting interesting content that leads me off down all sorts of (pardon me) rabbit holes.

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The Long Shop Museum @longshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

So, the egg contents look like Japanese Anemones, which is curious as anemones are traditionally avoided by bunnies (as a foodstuff, at least). In the Victorian 'language of flowers', pink anemones signified a sense of longing. Anemones are a herbal remedy for headaches. Overthinker, moi? 😂

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