@drlaurenpadgett
Assistant Curator of Collections @ Bradford District Museums and Galleries ⚙🏺🖼 🏛 | PhD 🎓 | Historian 📜 | Proud Bradfordian 💪🐗 | Interested in local heritage; bygone times; people from the past; & dusty old things | 📌 🗺 Bradford, Yorkshire | Views my own.
Now the winner has been announced, make sure you catch the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition while you can at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social 🏛🎨
'Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win #TurnerPrize' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
I had fun today working at #Bradford Industrial Museum's Victorian Christmas Market @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social. I was in the 1875/Victorian back-to-back house letting visitors have a closer look inside. Market continues tomorrow (Sunday) 10am-4pm. 🎄🎩🏭
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Photo shows table with three different drinks on it, a mulled wine, a black coffee and a hot chocolate with squirty cream.
Photo shows a courtyard full of white tents of christmas market stalls surrounded by a 3 storey square building of the piece hall. Along one of the levels, letters spelt out Christmas. In the distance is a church steeple/spire.
After an eventful and stressful week, nice to have the day off work to go christmas shopping at Halifax's Piece Hall and their Christmas Market, followed by food and drink at local restaurant. Their Christmas Market is great with different food, drink and product stalls. 🛍☕️🍷🍽
Photo shows a purple plinth with yellow writing on the side saying Nisbet Road Tailor Shop with clothing arranged on it. Behind it a wall of suit jackets hung on the wall with coat hangers.
Photo shows a mock shop front with door. One of the shop front displays shows traditional South Asian outfit with a garland that spells out the letters B r a d f o r d.
Photo showsa wide mock shop front with retro orange wooden frame and yellow backdrop with a wide length of fabric hung in it. A sign saying Nisbet Road Tailor Shop.
Photo taken into sensory experience tent with draped fabric ceiling and walls projecting light and film footage. On the floor are rugs and seating.
26) After work with colleagues, I went to @bradford2025.co.uk Loading Bay to see 'Nisbet Road Tailor Shop' exhibition featuring clothing & photos on loan from @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social. Caught 'Sonic Swirl and Silence' sensory experience too. Followed by food and drink at Darley St. Market. 🧵🪡
In the early hours, my car was stolen. Praying its recovered or I'll be £1000s out of pocket. Angry at the sh!ts who did it but faith in humanity restored with neighbours supporting me, & kind stranger who found & returned some of my things, then later came back with a card and gift to cheer me up.
Book cover shows buildings by river at the bottom with an enlarged image of a woman in period costume tinted green holding a pink rose.
This week I read Tracy Borman's 'The King's Witch', a historical novel about the #Stuart royal court and, fittingly for this week, the Gunpowder Plot. I hadn't realised it was part of a series so I've requested the next one. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. 📚 👑 #SkyBook #BookSky
Photo shows a display set up as a japanese garden with two mannikins of Japanese armour.
Photo shows a wall of framed Japanese woodblock prints.
I know I'm biased but this is a great exhibition showcasing #Japanese objects from ukiyo-e, to arms and armoury, to #netsuke. On display until March at Cliffe Castle Museum #Keighley #Bradford @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #WoodBlockPrints
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I've finished Halloween week listening to a radio version of the supernatural play 'The Grey Ones' by #Bradford playwright JB Priestley. I'd not heard of it before. It's about the belief that a group of malevolent 'grey ones' work together to manipulate the world. 🎭 📻
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Book cover shows a illustration depicting Frankenstein's monster.
I've finished reading my Halloween week read. I decided to go with a classic and re-read Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. I can't help but feel pity for the tormented Monster and less so for arrogant Frankenstein. 🎃📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
Photo shows a child with face covered stood next to a skeleton.
Photo shows two children with faces covered drrsses in witch costumes stood next a woman dressed in costume as a witch against a themed backdrop.
25) I've been off work to spend time with little people. Yesterday I took one to #Bradford Industrial Museum for the Halloween trail. Today, we took two to Bolling Hall for the Halloween event day. I know I'm biased but @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social run great free family events all year round. 🎃💀🪄
Photo shows exhibition space with a wall of framed photos and mannikins of costume in cases.
Photo shows exhibition space with a catwalk of mannikins of costume and two cases behind also showing mannikins of costume.
It's been great having 'Woven Through Time' exhibition about Bradford's textile industry at #Bradford Industrial Museum @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social this year, featuring historical costume & photos by Ian Beesley. Last few weeks to see it - catch it while you can. bradfordmuseums.org/event/woven-...
Book cover has round glasses with one lens cracked and both covered in blood.
This week I read 'Actually I'm A Murderer' by Terry Deary, clever and witty murder mystery set in Sunderland in the 1970s. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
Photo shows a wall that says Sound + Vision. This is at the Science and Media Museum in the sound and vision gallery.
Photo shows a museum case containing objects linked to Jacquard weaving with a model of a Jacquard loom, punch cards, design tickets and photos of Mill workers. This is in the sound and vision gallery.
Photo shows an animation of a red-y, pink-y and purple-y earth depicting the carbon cycle. This is in the You:Matter experience.
Photo shows the back of a sofa and arm chair facing a wall with lots of framed photos on it. All the frames are different styles, colours and sizes creating a collage effect. This is at Impressions Gallery.
24) For our work team away day, my colleagues & I explored what's on our doorstep in #Bradford, visiting @mediamuseum.bsky.social to see their fab new galleries & visiting @impressions-gallery.com to see their current exhibition 'Make Yourself at Home'. Plus lunch at Darley St. Market. 🏛 📺 📻 📸
I'm trying to research a local branch of the Old Age Pensions Association in #Bradford 1950s. Struggling to find anything. Can #history #historians #hivemind recommend any research into, or researchers of, the OAP Association? Thanks in advance. @workingclasshistory.com @sogorg.bsky.social
Photo shows the theatre stage set with shelving with objects on, twqo chairs with orange cushions, and three large screens behind. Two say Uncanny.
23) This evening I had pre-show drinks in Sunbridgewells tunnels, #Bradford, before watching the theatre show #Uncanny Fear of the Dark @dannyrobins.bsky.social at Bradford Alhambra. Great staging and paranormal cases. 😱🛸👻
Book cover for The Adversary shows a coast line with buildings, trees and the ocean with the clouds into the shape of deer antlers above.
Book cover for Cordelia shows the back of a woman in a dress stood in front of a three storey house with an upper window lit and a town with smokey chimneys in the background, under moonlight.
This fortnight I have read two historical fiction books. Michael Crummey's 'The Adversary' set in 19th century Newfoundland and 'Cordelia' by Winston Graham - this should be dramatised, it has everything from a mysterious 1st wife, unhappy marriages, secret lovers and séances. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
Yes it is. A family member had Covid quite bad last week.
This morning I had my flu jab. Last year I wasn't quick enough & got the flu which became a prolonged severe chest infection. Resulted in 3 weeks off work on 12 tablets a day, months of fatigue & laboured breathing, & a diagnosis of asthma due to lung damage. I recommend getting 1 if you can. 💉🤧
Photo shows a glass-top table with a kindle showing an e-book, a bowl of olives and glass of prosecco on it.
Photo shows on mannikins displaying period costume, Regency dresses and a man's outfit, from Jane Susten movie and TV adaptations.
I decided to treat myself so I booked 2 days off work & booked myself into Wood Hall Spa and Hotel, Wetherby, for an overnight solo spa break. Tied in a visit to Harewood House to see 'Austen and Turner' exhibition. So glad I did it, relaxed & refreshed but don't want to return to work. #SelfCare 💆♀️🧖♀️
Photo shows page from book with place meanings for Bradford.
There's lots of ways to interpret place-meanings and origins. Ivegate could mean steep, or even refer to ivy. This is where one interpretation refers to St. Ives.
It was officially called Harden Grange but when the estate was bought it the mid-1800s by William Ferrand, it adopted the name St. Ives. Apparently because Ferrand thought the area was similar to that of St. Ives, Cornwall.
Ivegate is believed to mean the street to St. Ives.
Today I logged on for Collections Trust conference #CTConf2025 for panels on #museum documentation & disposals - the often unseen & undervalued core museum work. I always come away from Collections Trust sessions feeling inspired & uplifted, ready to roll up my sleeves and crack on. 🏛📝👩💻🧹💪 #Curator
Photo shows a paved path under an old railway bridge with trees and hedges along the sides of the path. There is a pole with blue signs about the route and directions.
Photo shows a paved path with trees and green hedges along the side and a white-painted metal bench to the side. The sky is clear blue.
This morning I went for walk around Low Moor and Wyke, #Bradford, which included a part of the Spen Valley Greenway. Very lucky to have some nice walking routes and green spaces in my local area. 🥾🍂
Both. The collection of characters assembled was eclectic. Once you got comfortable with the world, it all changed again within a few chapters with plot-twists which kept it fresh for a longer read.
Book cover shows a man wearing a clock with the hood up and a black cat on his shoulder. He is carrying a knife and there are mountains in the distance behind him.
Over the last few months, and inbetween other books, I've read 'The Redemption of Althalus' by David and Leigh Eddings. I don't often read fantasy books but enjoyed dipping in and out of this longer read. #BookSky #SkyBook #FantasyBook
Review for the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social 👇. I had a sneaky peek on Friday when onsite and I was awestruck.
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I'll keep a look out for that book, thanks. I'm very lucky that an office I work in is on the floor above one of my local libraries so I'm in every week collecting books I've reserved or browsing the shelves on my lunch break. 📚
Book cover shows an illustration of the ship Titanic with other illustrations around it showing the silhouettes of the New York skyline, a female figure with a child, a female figure with a man under a lamppost, and foliage and flowers.
This weekend I read 'The Lost Passenger' by Frances Quinn, an endearing historical fiction novel about a woman who tries to turn a tragedy into an opportunity for a better life. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. #BookSky #SkyBook #BookRecommendation
Photo shows a table and chairs. The table is covered in a tablecloth with words on it. On the table are teapots and teacups covered in fabrics.
Suspended above the table is this oversized fabric covered teapot.
22) This evening I attended the launch of the exhibition 'Our Turn: Practice Bradford' at Loading Bay @bradford2025.co.uk. Part of the new visual arts festival, 'Our Turn', for #Bradford. Loved Saba Siddiqui's installation. 🫖☕️
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