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The Usk Rural Life Museum
celebrated its contribution to the nationwide
Museums and Galleries Month for 2008 by featuring
work by its staff and volunteers.
Guest of honour Mrs Fisher was
present to view the cart renovated by long-serving
volunteers Peter Rennie and John Morgan.
The cart originally belonged to
Mrs Fisher’s father, Mr George Phillips. Over the
last three years the cart has been re-built with a
new floor, wheels and shafts and is now resplendent
in red and blue livery. Each wheel is built of 98
separate pieces of wood and represents many hours of
careful craftsmanship.
In a special event at the museum,
guests, friends and volunteers met to view the award
winning work of the museum on its LINKage
inter-generation programme.
Guests, including Usk Mayor Jill
Jeremiah and other councillors, saw images and a DVD
of the inter-generation work led by Education
Officer Ann Mansell. This involved local children
from Usk Church in Wales Primary School interviewing
elderly residents and writing up details of their
childhood memories of the town.
The guests also had fun making
butter together by a traditional technique. |
