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BBC News
23-03-2025
- BBC News
Documents wanted from Telford's Windrush generation
Members of the Windrush generation that settled in Telford are being asked to share documents that help tell their stories of coming to live in the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Telford and Wrekin Council are hosting a drop-in event at Leegomery Community Centre on 3 April, which the Caribbean community is encouraged to organisations wants to see letters, photos, boarding passes, payslips and passports from people who travelled to Telford between the 1940s and documents will be scanned and eventually displayed on "Back A Yard" boards, which will be housed in the trust's collections. In 1948, people from the British colonies were given the right to live and work in Britain under the British Nationality people came over on HMT Empire Windrush to help rebuild post-war Britain and became known as the Windrush a Yard, a West Midlands-based project developed by Dr Tony Talburt and Dr Pedro Cravinho at Birmingham City University, hopes to create a historical collection of personal documentary material relating to Caribbean migrants who settled in the West trust said the displays would serve as a valuable resource for future generations and were the Windrush generation? 'Under-explored story' Andrea Nelson, community engagement and diversity, equity, and inclusion manager at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, said the trust was "delighted" to be working on the project."There is a large Caribbean community in Telford, all with stories to tell of their life in the town, and we can't wait to hear them," she Booth, the trust's collections and learning director, said: "Our main purpose is to collect, preserve and interpret stories, artefacts and objects which capture the history of our area and to provide a space where stories can be told, shared and studied."This event is an opportunity to share the under-explored story of the local Caribbean community."The community centre will be open for the public to make submissions between 14:00 BST and 17:00 on 3 April. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
16-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Telford Victorian museum creates calm room with sensory toys
Visitors to a museum who need some time out for peace and quiet can use a room set up as a calm Sunflower Room at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford has been created for people with special educational needs and disabilities, health conditions, and parents who need to breastfeed or bottle-feed children in a quiet museum in Shropshire recreates everyday life in 1900 and includes Victorian shops, cottages, crafts, trades and is part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, which worked with local charity Parents Opening Doors to create the quiet space and was funded by donations from five organisations. The room has comfortable seating, sensory toys and equipment, sensory tents, ear defenders and baby changing mats, plus other Nelson, community engagement manager, said: "We are thrilled to offer a calm space where our visitors with additional needs can take some time out. "Providing the Sunflower Room is one way in which we can be more inclusive and support our local communities."Karen Davies, the museum trust's interim chief executive, added that it would make a big difference to visitors and ensure that everyone felt are still being raised for the facility to continue to improve the room. The project has been selected by the Co-op as one of the causes its members can support this year by voting for it to receive bags for visitors with special educational needs and disabilities arrived in December for the annual festive events at the included ear defenders, pop fidgets, spiky light-up balls, squeeze balls and a wooden kaleidoscope, and they are designed to soothe visitors who may be stressed, anxious, or agitated from sensory overload. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
