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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We are delighted to announce an exciting new project that we've been working on! Loaves to Legends is a podcast brought to you by Sandwich Guildhall Museum. It's a podcast exploring the history of Sandwich; a small town with a big history. #museum #historypodcast youtu.be/JItX7dZicso

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We've been thinking a lot about the questions we get asked and stories from Sandwich's history that we haven't delved too deeply into. Tomorrow, you get to find out why! Keep your eyes peeled and ears open 👀 for an exciting announcement! #localhistory #localmuseum #visitsandwich #visitdover

A purple and orange gradient with four different coloured squares on top of it. The top left square is yellow and orange, it has a black silhouette of a rat on it, with a white shield that has text reading "why is there a rat in the museum?". The top right square is red and orange, with the silhouette of a gavel and the text in the shield reads "do you wish to call any witnesses?" The lower left square is blue and yellow, with a silhouette of handcuffs and the shield reads "where were you on 30th March 1934?" and the lower right square is purple and orange, with a silhouette of bread on it and the shield has text reading "are there any other places that share their name with a food?"

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This year's art exhibition will be based on our stained-glass window! Submissions for art work open on Monday 2nd May and close on Sunday 3rd August. You can visit the 16th century courtroom to view the window in person to get inspired.

A poster for Sandwich Guildhall Museum's Annual Art Competition and Exhibition with the following text: "Call for submissions, Monday 2nd May to Sunday 3rd August." The poster has an orange and brown background. On the background in various colours are outlines in different window shapes. There are faded lighter sections vertically and horizontally across the poster upon which the text is positioned. The text is on the right side of the poster. On the left side is a photograph of the Sandwich's courtroom stained-glass window in an arch shape with a gold border.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We have a student from University of Kent doing a work placement with us currently. Isabelle has been exploring our collections, starting with the Roman Head.

Photograph on a background that has an orange gradient. The photograph is of a Roman statue's head. It is the head of Commodus. It is worn with chips out of it and the statue is mostly missing its nose.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Here is some of the work from last year's art exhibition, inspired by our Roman Bowl! The theme this year is our stained glass window. We want to make a brightly coloured space full of artwork, and you can help us! We're accepting submissions now until 3rd August. #artexhibition #museum

Photograph of pictures hanging on a white wall. There are various sizes of picture and some are unframed. One shows a Roman villa, painted in bright colours, another shows a pile of leaves, with a cross and a blue/green background. Another shows a Roman head with a blue and gold background. Multiple images show the Roman bowl from Sandwich Guildhall Museum, which is a blue/green colour.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you get the chance - & it’s perfect weather for a trip to the southeast coast! - do take a look at the Leave to Land Kitchener camp exhibition currently showing at the marvellous @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social It’s run by the loveliest people, and they also hold some original Kitchener camp items.

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Chatting to the BBC, as one does, about the Kitchener Camp rescue on the annual trip to Sandwich this week, where the camp was located. It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to return since 2019, and it was lots of fun. Thank you @theajruk.bsky.social for organising the trip and the BBC interview!

Clare Weissenberg being interviewed in front of the panels of the Leave to Land exhibition she designed and later donated to the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2019 - from where the exhibition can now be borrowed for use at your school, village hall, museum, shul, or college.

The BBC introduces their slot about the Leave to Land exhibition currently on show at the Sandwich Guildhall Museum

Dr Clare Weissenberg designed the exhibition and later donated it to the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2019 - from where the exhibition can now be borrowed for use at your school, village hall, museum, shul, or college.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

We're recruiting volunteers for this project now! Join the team to take part in digitising and researching our postcard collection. Check out our website for all the details: sandwichguildhallmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/let...

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Let’s do the time walk again! – Sandwich Guildhall Museum

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Let’s do the time walk again! is a project funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and created by CCCU in partnership Deal Museum, Ramsgate Clock House Museum and Dickens House Museum and of course, us! @kentmapsonline.bsky.social

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

When you read the description “Sandwich Round Table. Group of men with fake tortoises, 1975” and you just have to know what the photo looks like.

Black and white photograph outside Sandwich Guildhall. There is a van parked behind a group of people. In the foreground are two men crouched down, one of the is wearing the mayoral chains. There are two more men stood to the right and one is holding a sign. There is a boy on the right holding a sign reading “mile of pennies, start.” There are multiple fake tortoises on the floor surrounding the people. The mayor is gesturing towards a tortoise that reads “make a tortoise mile.”

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

We’re slowly building a collection of different photographs for the postcards in our shop! We now have Guildhall postcards and Ham Sandwich postcards to join the one of our stained-glass window. #localhistory #museum #museumshop #postcard

Photograph of three brightly coloured postcards positioned at angles on a white background. One shows the Guildhall with a blue sky behind it, another shows an old road sign reading “Han Sandwich” and another shows a stained glass window of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We were delighted to welcome students from Sandwich Infant School to the museum this morning! They learnt all about the stained glass window and then helped us with a special project. 👀🎨 #sandwichtown #visitsandwich #sandwichkent #localhistory #localmuseum

Close up of geometric shapes including squares and diamonds, with the style of a stained glass window, which have been coloured in by a child. They are brightly coloured in mostly pinks and purples.

Close up of geometric shapes including squares and diamonds, with the style of a stained glass window, which are being coloured in by a child. Most of the shapes are not coloured in, apart from some pink and yellow triangles and diamonds.

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Gia Radley @gia-radley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I hosted this interview with @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, who shared some incredible and fascinating stories about her research into the Kitchener Camp. Please do give it a listen :)

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On this day, 80 years ago, conflict in Europe ceased after war had raged on for six years. The fighting continued in other parts of the world, but the 8th May 1945 saw the surrender of German military operations and became known as Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day. #VEDay80 #VEDay

Photograph of poppy bunting attached to a wall. The bunting is hung across a hallway parallel to the ceiling. The bunting is casting shadows onto the wall. Overlaid on the photograph is a faded white box with text inside it reading "VE Day 80."

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tomorrow is VE Day. To share the story of the Kitchener Camp, we interviewed @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, creator of the Kitchener Camp Project. Join us as we learn more about Sandwich, a small town with a big history. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube now! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This talk complements the exhibition ‘Leave to Land’, curated by @drcweissenberg.bsky.social which uses memoirs, photos, official documents to illustrate the lives of the refugees who came to Sandwich. It is on display from now until Sunday 18th May.

A poster for an illustrated talk. The poster has a blue background with a white section at the top and an angled white section in the bottom right corner. There is red text reading "VE Day 80", followed by white text reading "FOUR THOUSAND GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN SANDWICH 1939-40. Why they came, their role in WW2 1940/45, what happened next." There is an image of the book cover "Four Thousand Lives" by Clare Ungerson. On the right, next to the book, is text reading "Illustrated talk by Professor Clare Ungerson, 6th May 2025, 7pm, Guildhall Jury Room."

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just a series of tiny photos from the 1970s attached together to create a panorama of the river side in Sandwich.

Sepia toned photograph showing grass in the foreground with a river behind. There are boats on the river and behind it, a series of buildings. The main building is a large square, brick building with boarded up windows. Text on it reads “the Invicta Coal & Shipping Co.”

Colour photograph with a green tinge. There is grass in the foreground and a river, mostly hidden by the grass. On the other side of the river are trees and a series of buildings. The photograph is made from multiple photos attached together and one of the seams cuts off part of a building. A building on the right side reads “Globe Yacht” and “Slipway.”

Coloured photo with a green tinge. It shows grass, with a river behind. There are some boats on the river but only the tops of them are visible. There are buildings being the river, including rooftops of houses. On the right is a large building reading “Watneys, Ales & Stouts.”

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's the Easter half term! If you're looking for something to do, don't forget the museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm. You can visit the museum and 16th century courtroom. We also have clothes for children to get dressed up in and a space to colour in some Sandwich themed drawings!

Photograph of the end of a table, which has colouring worksheets on it. The top sheet shows a shield with a coat of arms, which has been coloured in. There is a pile of colouring pencils on top of the sheets. There is a plastic children's crown, which is red and gold towards the back of the table and a decorative, silver, plastic sword laying diagonally in front of it, on top of the sheets.

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Inspired by Anne Pratt's writings in "Flowers and Their Associations", and the glorious #spring sunshine, our Curating Visibility Fellow and prize-winning poet Karl @karlantmercer.bsky.social put together a poem for #WorldPoetryDay Read by Collections Assistant @lizzysharpe.bsky.social Part 1:

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We are absolutely delighted to have been featured in the recent episode of the BBC's Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. We welcomed David Harper and Moira Stuart into the museum to learn about the Magna Carta from Maggie, a member of our wonderful volunteer team! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip - Series 13: 13. Aled Jones v Moira Stuart

National treasure Moira Stuart and star of stage and screen Aled Jones go head-to-head in a battle of antiques in Kent, helped by experts David Harper and Serhat Ahmet.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/

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‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online

Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We know it’s annoying when someone says “I’m working on an exciting project but I can’t tell you about it yet” but it’s not often we get to do that, so: We’re working on an exciting project but we can’t tell you about it yet.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

On Sundays, we work with the collection. (As well as on Fridays and Saturdays) Today we came across this postcard showing Strand Street in 1873. We think the Hovis sign is very apt! 🥪

Black and white photograph of Strand Street in Sandwich from 1873. There is a row of Tudor fronted buildings, some are shops. In the foreground a man with a cart is talking to a woman in a doorway. There is a Hovis sign on one of the buildings.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We may have been closed for a few weeks but we have been doing some important work, particularly ensuring the museum is looking especially shiny for the new year! We're now open as normal, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm so please do come and visit us.

A photograph of the interior of a museum. There are dark grey interpretation panels with the following titles "Battle of Sandwich", "Whitefriars Priory", "The Huguenots of Sandwich", "Sandwich Custumal" and "The Sandwich Magna Carta" along the walls and inside a display case. The glass doors of the display case are open and there is only one object inside. The rest of the objects are on tables to the side of the room. They have been removed so the cases can be cleaned.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the Sandwich Guildhall Museum team! We’re closed until the 8th January but however you are spending the festive period, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

An illustration of Sandwich Guildhall, with a pink background and dark blue outlines. Above it is a blue rectangular section with white text which reads "Merry Christmas!" Both coloured sections have white outlines around them and white snowflake designs across them.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

As we're approaching 2025, which is, as it turns out, going to be a big year for us thanks to a certain email from Arts Council England, we have been thinking about what we have achieved in 2024. So, here is a thread, because we don't have enough characters here (that's how good we are) 🧵

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Notification arrived today that we need to renew our Museum Accreditation. Current status 👇😱

A Huge orangutan riding a child's bike, chasing a small child who is running away in a panic.

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A reminder that the museum closes tomorrow at 4pm for the Christmas period. It will be back open on Wednesday 8th January at 10am, in the meantime we will be getting some important work done!

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Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Do you want to get behind the scenes at a museum? Do you want to shape museum outputs? Do you just want to work with me? Do you identify as deaf, disabled and/or Neurodiverse? Now is your chance! But time is running out! Recruitment will close next week! More information and apply now! ⬇️

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

📢 The Big Give is now live! Donate now and your generous contribution will be matched, meaning it has double the impact on the Library. This year we are raising vital funds for our family history research service... buff.ly/3Oqmuc5

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Another day, another interesting find! This is a page from a handwritten booklet of instructions titled Land Measuring and Dividing of Land.

A page from a large handwritten booklet. Taking up most of the page is a diagram of a shape, similar to irregular four sided shapes connected together. There are dotted lines dividing the shapes into triangles with numbers written along them. Below the diagram are a list of numbers and calculations. Text at the top of the page refers to the “content of the following irregular figure.”

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's your last chance to see the Silver Oar and Speaker's Badge on display as our temporary exhibition, Sandwich: Speaker for the Cinque Ports, closes on Sunday 1st December! #localhistory #cinqueports #visitsandwich #museum

A photograph of the inside of an exhibition cabinet. At the top of the image is an oar, which is made of silver and has an engraving of a crown on the paddle. It is very shiny and has a reflection of a frame and exhibition panel which are on the wall above it. Closer to the front of the cabinet is the Speaker's Badge, a teardrop shaped badge, with silver around the outside. In the centre is the coat of arms for the Confederation of Cinque Ports, which is a red and blue background with three part-lions part-ships on it. The badge has blue fabric attached and is positioned on top of its open badge case.

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Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Deal Man in Sandwich?

A delicious sandwich - a collection of ingredients placed between two slices of bread - served on a white plate with a white background. The primary filling of this sandwich is Deal Man - a humanoid white chalk figurine of the British Iron Age. He lies coquettishly between the bread slices, lettuce leaves pillowing his tapering, rectangular, featureless body, his carved expression blank, but sultry. The text caption above reads "He's a snack".

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Okay FINE, we'll share our photo of the Deal Man. He seems to be appearing all over the place? He wandered in front of the camera when we were taking a photo of the building the other day. Rude.

Photograph of Sandwich Guildhall, with blue sky behind it and shadows across the square in front. In the foreground is the Deal Man, an Iron Age chalk figurine.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 28/11/2024

So it's gonna be forever 'Cause we've preserved it in a case

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

🎶🎤 We got those objects, volunteers, stories to share, And the medieval Guildhall with the loud creaky stairs, There’s lot of history here, we’ve been ‘round a while, ‘Cause we never go out of style, We never go out of style

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Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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Chiltern Open Air Museum @chilternoam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Artefact of the week: Edward Briden created this stained glass window in 1946. He made it from fragments of stained glass from bombed church windows after WWII, subsequently preserving and appreciating the art that was destroyed by the war. #museum #museumobject

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We did it! (Well, you did actually) We’re only a small museum so 1,000 people is a lot to us. Museums and the all the people that work in or with them are wonderful. What an incredibly supportive community. Thank you!

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Returning the favour - if you aren’t following Dr Weissenberg then please do! Her work on the Leave to Land exhibition in particular is incredibly important for sharing the history of the Kitchener Camp, which not many people know about.

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 26/11/2024

Actually, I think that's what these folks should be doing: bsky.app/profile/teak...

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We didn’t think this would actually happen but we’re starting to dream.. anyone know where we can find another eleven followers?

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

📣 Christmas opening times! 📣 As December is right around the corner, we thought we should share our Christmas opening times. The museum is open everyday as normal, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm up until Friday 20th December. The museum will then reopen on Wednesday 8th January.

Old black and white photograph of Sandwich Guildhall, with posts from the cattle market in the foreground. Overlaid on the right side of the photograph is a red box, containing white text, which reads "Sandwich Guildhall Museum, Christmas opening times! Open as normal, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm, closing: Friday 20th December, 4pm. Reopening: Wednesday 8th January, 10am."

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A better question might be what image do we have to alter gradually to encourage you to follow us?

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Do you think we can reach 1,000 followers before our week starts again on Wednesday?

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What does Sandwich, a town in Kent, have to do with Great Yarmouth, a town in Norfolk? During the Middle Ages, Portsmen from the Cinque Ports would exercise their right to "den and strond" by travelling to the banks of the river Yare and setting up camp for what became an annual Herring Fair.

Image showing nine seals, with the heading "Seals belonging to the Burgh of Great Yarmouth." The image is taken from Collections for an History of Sandwich by William Boys.

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Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Nesting reposts to say yes, Sandwich is part of Dover District, along with Walmer, Deal, Eastry, Betteshanger etc. So if you are in those areas, have lived experience with disability and want to be involved - www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sharing this for those of you that are in the Dover District!

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Sandwich Guildhall Museum @sandwichmuseum.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Delighted to see our friends from Dover Museum are here! 👋 @dovermuseum.bsky.social

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