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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: March 2014
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 10 March 2014. We were delighted to once again be a host venue for this year's STANZA International Poetry Festival. There was plenty to enjoy with three exhibitions, including. The Lightfoot Letters, The Doctor Shop,. In the temporary gallery,. By Maria Walker and Angela Topping. Outside, visitors were invited to make their own poems with Martine Pugh's. Installation. Here is an example of two poems left by visitors:. St andrews pr...
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: June 2014
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Thursday, 12 June 2014. It’ll be alright on the night! Many people (quite rightly! A play within a play set in the original Byre Theatre. Rather than performing the entire play on the stage, the cast performed the first act in the downstairs area of the Museum. Some of the cast downstairs during the first act. 4 out of the 5 nights sold out and the plays raised over £700. The funds raised have been split between the Museum and the ...
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: August 2015
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 10 August 2015. Curator's choice: War-time wooden shoes. Our current summer exhibition, Furs, feathers, frills and florals: four decades of fashion, 1919-1959, looks at the development of fashion trends during a period shaped by economic instability and war. These wooden shoes, made in around 1943, are an excellent example of how industry got creative to solve a problem: the rationing of shoes due to rubber and leather shortages.
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: June 2015
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. From our Photographic Collection. St Andrews Railway Station. By Museum Volunteer Pat Harvey. Sometimes people ask –. 8220;Where was the Railway Station in St Andrews? 169; GM Cowie St Andrews from the Links c1960s. When coming back from Dundee, I remember getting off the train at Leuchars and the St Andrews train would be sitting in a siding waiting to take passengers to St Andrews. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: New Trainee
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 16 February 2015. Whilst flicking through and old Fife Almanac from 1926, her attention was caught by a familiar name, McFarland (her mother’s maiden name.) Sure enough, the article detailed her Great Grandfather’s appointment as the new Minister of Balmerino Church and few details about his life works along with a picture! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. The St Andrews Preservation Trust.
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: October 2014
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Wednesday, 15 October 2014. Great War Memory Board. Here are ten postcards that were submitted to the board. We will continue to post these on our blog in due course. Please note that some of these cards can be fairly detailed and upsetting to read. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. The St Andrews Preservation Trust. Echoes from the Vault. We Love Museums in Fife. Great War Memory Board. University of st andrews.
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: July 2015
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 13 July 2015. From our Photographic collection.Merryweather Steam Fire Engine. By Museum Volunteer Pat Harvey. This is a photograph of the Merryweather Steam Fire Engine which arrived in St Andrews in 1901. It was given to the town by Major Donald Lindsay Carnegie who lived in Playfair Terrace and died in 1911. A demonstration of the new Pump was held at the Bruce Embankment on the 1. When the Merryweather Fire Engine was made redun...
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: February 2015
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 16 February 2015. Whilst flicking through and old Fife Almanac from 1926, her attention was caught by a familiar name, McFarland (her mother’s maiden name.) Sure enough, the article detailed her Great Grandfather’s appointment as the new Minister of Balmerino Church and few details about his life works along with a picture! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. The St Andrews Preservation Trust.
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The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum: Curator's choice: War-time wooden shoes
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News and articles from The St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. Monday, 10 August 2015. Curator's choice: War-time wooden shoes. Our current summer exhibition, Furs, feathers, frills and florals: four decades of fashion, 1919-1959, looks at the development of fashion trends during a period shaped by economic instability and war. These wooden shoes, made in around 1943, are an excellent example of how industry got creative to solve a problem: the rationing of shoes due to rubber and leather shortages.
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