We have been spreading our exhibition wings! So far we have put on 8 separate events, now planning number 9.

 

 

Our first five years were marked by an exhibition held at Worle Community Centre in Lawrence Road on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th August 2014. Almost 500 people came along to join the party. Some bits and pieces to remind you are below. Richard Wyatt's review and his pictures are further down the page.

 

 

• August 2014 - Worle Community centre. Two day exhibition of our archives, first showing of our Blue Boards, slide show and primary source material
   
• November 2014 - St Martin's Church. One day selected material relevant to the Church and the slide show.
   
• February 2015 - Weston Museum. Five day show in the exhibition room. The complete collection including new boards of aerial photographs.
   
• March 2015 to March 2016 - Worle Library. Exhibition corner. All 26 of our display boards on a rolling programme for 52 weeks, changed once a fortnight with support material
   
• Spring 2015 - Milton and Old Worle Children's Centre. Six week mini exhibition of selected display boards.
   
• October 2015 - Worle Library. Three day exhibition, display boards, slide show and archive files.
   
• August 2017 - One day at Worle Community centre, display boards, slide show and archives
   
• October 2017 - St Mark's Church for 2 days.  All the usual displays plus a walk on the Saturday afternoon, led by Dave Hart on his birthday!
  
  March 2022 - Weston Museum for 2 weeks.  Display boards and newly framed  original photographs of Edwardian Worle, never shown previously.
   

 

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Richard Wyatt • Posted in The Gallery •

It’s a little off the Bath patch but l wanted to mention a superb two-day exhibition being held today and tomorrow – Friday August 15th and Saturday August 16th – by members of Worle Historical Society at the Worle Community Centre in Lawrence Road from 10 tip 7 (Friday) and from 10 until 4pm (Saturday).

It’s a place you drive through on your way into Weston-super-Mare but years ago the ‘village’ was bigger than the collection of fishermens’ cottages on the coast.

Early visitors at the Worle Historical Society exhibition.

When my grandparents – Arthur and Gladys Pope – kept the Lamb Inn public house it was just a small community – complete with butcher, baker, dairy, general stores and even a combined furnishings and sweet shop called Skidmores – which made its own ice-cream. Skiddies we knew it as when l was a young boy. I lived there until l was six but my parents had a much longer association.

I was able to take my mother to the exhibition and it quite made her day! The Society has been in existence for five years and felt it was the right time to share their archives, pictures, maps, family trees and databases with all those who were interested.

My mother deep in conversation with Mr and Mrs David Kingsbury at the exhibition.

An exhibition team has been working all summer to prepare 25 display boards on a variety of topics from population growth to schools.

We bought a Society calendar for 2015 and l tried some delicious lemon drizzle cake. They even give you a complimentary cuppa! My mother met several old friends and was swept back in time to her years as a girl and then as a young married mother.

 

And the latest is our Exhibition Corner at Worle Library which was launched on 20th March 2015, shortly after the eclipse of the sun!

Four of our exhibition boards were on display until the end of May at Milton and Old Worle Children's Centre in Mendip Avenue. This building was originally Worle County Infants' School which opened its doors in 1901. The pictures below were taken today as a reminder of the old school hall.

In October, 2015, we presented our exhibition for three consecutive days at Worle Library. Worle Village Primary School visited on the second day, a class at a time, which was great fun.