Heritage Open Days 2022 – Heritage without Walls
This year, the heritage festival shifts its Barton focus to the great outdoor spaces in the town - with guided walks and hidden gems to discover as part of our... Read more...
This year, the heritage festival shifts its Barton focus to the great outdoor spaces in the town - with guided walks and hidden gems to discover as part of our... Read more...
Full details will be available here in the summer and on the Heritage Open Days website (heritagelincolnshire.org).
Far Ings National Nature Reserve hasn’t always been a haven for wildlife. Explore the history of the site with a self-guided trail (available from the Visitor centre) which leads you... Read more...
Grab a school satchel packed with fun things for toddlers and activities for older brothers and sisters to explore the museum starting outside in the Infants’ Playground. Free during Heritage... Read more...
The English Heritage run St Peter's Church is an archaeological and architectural treasure trove waiting for you to discover. It is home to over 2800 burials from Anglo-Saxon to Victorian... Read more...
A special screening with a local flavour of the Barbier directed The Serpent which was based on the Barton and Hull novel, Plender, Ted Lewis’s third novel. Ted’s boyhood friend,... Read more...
Ted Lewis (1940-1982) was an artist, illustrator and writer. He is best known for creating the character Jack Carter, the protagonist in the 1971 cult film Get Carter,... Read more...
A Practical Lecture and Exhibition by an Agent of Mr. Wilderspin Esq; Inventor of the Infant & Training Systems of Education. The forty minutes demonstration commences outside in the Playground... Read more...
Having been born into a privileged, aristocratic family, Vere Foster went on to devote his life to the social betterment of the Irish poor in the nineteenth century. Jean Cannon... Read more...
Peter Claxton examines the forces that shaped public health and housing in Hull between 1830-1914. Peter’s talk examines the relationships between central and local government, the ratepayers, the unenfranchised and... Read more...
For a town of Barton’s size we have more than our fair share of places linked to famous people. A panel of speakers including John French, Nigel Land, Monty Martin... Read more...
Barton experienced tremendous economic and social change during the nineteenth century. The growing number of people living in the town impacted on the character of the older part of the... Read more...