The
Museum opened for the season on Monday, 6th April. The times of opening
are as last year, that is Monday to Saturday, from 10.00a.m. to 12.00 noon
and from 1.30p.m. to 4.30p.m. Evening openings will commence on Monday
25th May from 7.30p.m. to 9.00p.m.
There
is always something new to see: this year’s exhibition is Education on
Scilly, a display of photographs, Mayday and old school photographs compiled
by Roger Williams, for many years a teacher at the Isles of Scilly Comprehensive
school. Amongst the new exhibits is the bell from H.M.S. ”EAGLE”, wrecked
on Tearing Ledge in 1707, part of Admiral ’Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s fleet.
Nearby is a photograph, courtesy of Liz Heslin, of Mark Horobin levering
the bell from the sea-bed in 1989. The ”Cita” exhibition will continue
throughout the year and regular visitors will notice a sealed jar of Glycerine
and Honey from the ”Minnehaha” (1910) and a German sailor’s knife from
the ”Schiller” (1875). In the basement, a picture of a liner, painted by
a keeper on the Bishop Lighthouse during the 1914 - 1918 War, has been
identified as being of the ”Olympic”, sister ship of the ill-fated ”Titanic”
and the ”Britannic.” In the same section are three hand-block printed patterns
”The Isles of Scilly”. These were made by Alec Walker and his wife Kay
as part of their Crysede patterns at their factory in Newlyn. These avant-garde
patterns were printed on silk and used by fashion houses such as Worth.
The factory was later moved to St. Ives.
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