An Amble Museum?

[Coquet]

We need a museum.

We have a rich heritage of Mining, Fishing, Maritime and Agriculture. We have ancient Mesolithic history. We have Bronze age burial cists with grave goods. We have great pride in our response to king and country during times of war. We have the bravery of the Amble and Hauxley lifeboat stations to celebrate.- We have all the seeds for a proud and fabulous series of displays.

We have had two neighbouring towns obliterated from the map; Chevington Drift and Radcliffe, with no decent focused way to remember them for those with ancestral roots in those places. Should we be letting them fade from living memory and forget them altogether, or should we have somewhere to celebrate those communities?

Historical artifacts are stripped from our area and taken elsewhere. Have you ever seen an Amble bronze age "beaker people" beaker in Amble?? I haven't.

Recently an Aircraft engine from a WW2 aircraft trawled up off Amble was dismantled and sold in little pieces on ebay.

Prehistoric artifacts are whisked off by academics to gather dust in university storerooms. Yes, they can have them for a year or two for study but surely we want them back 'home' eventually ??



The future of retail in the town looks grim. In fact it looks grim in most high streets up and down the country. New ways of utilizing and managing our town centres are having to be invented.


Amble has had some particularly large retail premises vacated in recent years. Why can't we have one for a museum?

Are we just interested in supermarkets? is that it? is that us??

[Coquet]

So...... who knows the ins and outs of this Heritage Lottery Fund?

By the way, what has Amble had from the fund over the past 17 years? I forget, didn't we get the gates of the east cemetery painted or something?

[Coquet]

Newbiggin got itself a nice new Maritime Heritage Centre.

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/comm...ntre_1_3134272



http://www.newbigginmaritimecentre.co.uk/

The project has been devised by a team of local volunteers,
who formed the Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Heritage Partnership six years ago.

6 years is quite a length of time. Guess they're getting quite excited about now, seeing it come to fruition

[Coquet]

The old Amble Cinema could have been our museum, could have stuck a seine netter in the center of that never mind a coble. Would have had to drop it in through the roof with a crane though.

[hollydog]

Never mind a seine netter - if you have a spare £50k start the museum with this!

http://www.alanpease.co.uk/boats/coq.html

She is now a horrible red colour and lost her original crane, but she is unmistakenly an Amble lass!

[janwhin]

Hasn't Amble Social History Group had various bits of funding? What DO they do anyway?

Lovely thought about museum, Bailiffgate is pretty small but has some good exhibitions.

Wouldn't hold your breath about ancient artifacts making their way back, it's not only the Elgin Marbles that the British Museum keeps their claws into, look at the Lindisfarne Gospels. I bet there's loads of stuff in their basements from Amble, apart from the odd lump of coal!

[Coquet]

The Dredger takes me back. I think because most of my childhood was spent hanging around the harbour.

Nice to see it's still afloat.

[carle]

how about old lifeboat house as maritime museum ?

[janwhin]

Just looked at the National Archives website. Under their archives sector they have information related to "finding funding" with links to other sites eg Heritage Lottery Fund.

[Coquet]

Originally Posted by janwhin

Just looked at the National Archives website. Under their archives sector they have information related to "finding funding" with links to other sites eg Heritage Lottery Fund.

I've just been looking at the forms for Heritage Grants (£100k upwards) on the lottery fund site. Interesting stuff.


An example of what the organizational structure would look like is here

[Coquet]

here's a small project example:

Abertillery and District Museum (re-fit at £224k)



and a bigger project using an old swimming pool building

The Wellingborough Museum (£998k)