Gainsborough Heritage Association Awarded Accreditation Accolade

The Gainsborough Heritage Association is pleased and proud to announce its recent achievement of Museum Accreditation status through the Arts Council Museum Accreditation Scheme. This is an honour for the volunteers at the Gainsborough Heritage Centre who in October 2024 celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the Gainsborough Heritage Association. The

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Gainsborough Heritage Association Celebrates its Thirtieth Anniversary!

The Gainsborough and District Heritage Association is celebrating it’s thirtieth anniversary this year. We would like to thank the volunteers who have worked tirelessly during the last 30 years to create a museum for Gainsborough with a fantastic archive, collection and displays of Gainsborough’s heritage. The story began with a four-day

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Talking THI – Volume 2; Pointing

Talking THI – Volume 2; What’s the Point? For each project currently underway, you will have hopefully noticed our Historic Heart Boards on display – there to give a short history of the building, alongside an overview of the work being carried out. For a lot of the THI projects,

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Talking THI – Volume 1; Roofs

While the scaffolding that is up on many of the buildings in the Town Centre at the moment is a good indication that work is being carried out at a high level, it isn’t always obvious just what work is being undertaken. Today, I want to share with you a

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Marshall Engineering Drawing Collection Project

As some of you may already know the Gainsborough Heritage Centre houses one of the largest collections of original Marshall engineering drawings in the country. For almost as long as we have owned this collection, we have been supplying copies of these engineering drawings to enthusiasts around the globe to

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