The Long Shop Museum
@longshop.bsky.social
Conserving and celebrating East Suffolk's Agricultural & Industrial history. Expect posts about museums, history, heritage & culture, and anything else that interests us (which is quite a lot).
www.longshopmuseum.co.uk
www.longshopmuseum.co.uk
Whatever the Romans had instead of a Surrey with a fringe on top, it was coming this way according to this floor fragment in Museu de Menorca (here on important fact finding mission).
July 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Whatever the Romans had instead of a Surrey with a fringe on top, it was coming this way according to this floor fragment in Museu de Menorca (here on important fact finding mission).
When you think your newly surfaced car park is pretty snazzy, then these amazing creatures turn up to really make the place look tidy.
May 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
When you think your newly surfaced car park is pretty snazzy, then these amazing creatures turn up to really make the place look tidy.
When you've spent the last six months refurbishing, refreshing, and reinventing your museum, this is the sort of visitor feedback that makes it all worthwhile.
May 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
When you've spent the last six months refurbishing, refreshing, and reinventing your museum, this is the sort of visitor feedback that makes it all worthwhile.
One of the more obvious elements of our restoration work. Our glorious re-gilded weathervane shows off its shimmer against a Spring Suffolk sky!
May 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
One of the more obvious elements of our restoration work. Our glorious re-gilded weathervane shows off its shimmer against a Spring Suffolk sky!
We're open! Apologies for the period of radio silence, we were preoccupied with preparations for reopening after five months of refurbishment work.
May 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
We're open! Apologies for the period of radio silence, we were preoccupied with preparations for reopening after five months of refurbishment work.
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Well done!
You earned this. (sound on)
Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.
You earned this. (sound on)
Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.
May 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Well done!
You earned this. (sound on)
Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.
You earned this. (sound on)
Now, if we get 100, we'll make him play The William Tell Overture on his massive bald head.
Thanks to the largesse of the Rolo elves 😉, I have come into possession of these uber-cool things. @BarnsleyMuseums.bsky.social Top Trumps! The recommended age is 6+, but I had supervision, and had a cracking time learning about Barnsley's FIVE awesome museums!
April 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Thanks to the largesse of the Rolo elves 😉, I have come into possession of these uber-cool things. @BarnsleyMuseums.bsky.social Top Trumps! The recommended age is 6+, but I had supervision, and had a cracking time learning about Barnsley's FIVE awesome museums!
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A short time-lapse film of returning the restored body back on the chassis. 3 years work led up to this milestone moment. Once again No.26 is sitting its wheels and starting to look like a trolleybus again. But there is still a ways to go before we are done.
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A short time-lapse film of returning the restored body back on the chassis. 3 years work led up to this milestone moment. Once again No.26 is sitting its wheels and starting to look like a trolleybus again. But there is still a ways to go before we are done.
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Dear Auntie Merchy, how can I feel more confident when on the same platform as gorgeous content such you and that wonderful @romanpalace.bsky.social?
I'm a geeky 6, surrounded by awesome 10's. I get so self-conscious and tongue-tied. You're so cool and funny, I hope that you can help me.
I'm a geeky 6, surrounded by awesome 10's. I get so self-conscious and tongue-tied. You're so cool and funny, I hope that you can help me.
March 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Dear Auntie Merchy, how can I feel more confident when on the same platform as gorgeous content such you and that wonderful @romanpalace.bsky.social?
I'm a geeky 6, surrounded by awesome 10's. I get so self-conscious and tongue-tied. You're so cool and funny, I hope that you can help me.
I'm a geeky 6, surrounded by awesome 10's. I get so self-conscious and tongue-tied. You're so cool and funny, I hope that you can help me.
On this day in 1774, Mary Cooper published a book of English nursery rhymes. It included 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', which is thought to reference a tax on the wool trade, imposed in 1275.
March 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
On this day in 1774, Mary Cooper published a book of English nursery rhymes. It included 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', which is thought to reference a tax on the wool trade, imposed in 1275.
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Here are some doggos for your Friday morning. From Painting Poems by Julie Anna Douglas. Illustrated by me.
March 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Here are some doggos for your Friday morning. From Painting Poems by Julie Anna Douglas. Illustrated by me.
@museumbums.bsky.social hardly an exemplar posterior, but interesting tats.
March 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
@museumbums.bsky.social hardly an exemplar posterior, but interesting tats.
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📖 Learn the origins of the notebook, its early importance to medieval Italy, and its adoption by the thinkers of the renaissance, the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. 7 March, at the Linnean Society.
Don't miss out on tickets! Follow the link below:
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Don't miss out on tickets! Follow the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
February 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📖 Learn the origins of the notebook, its early importance to medieval Italy, and its adoption by the thinkers of the renaissance, the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. 7 March, at the Linnean Society.
Don't miss out on tickets! Follow the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Don't miss out on tickets! Follow the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
So, last night a little film about the museum made it's debut at the 1st Leiston Community Film Festival (soon to eclipse Sundance 😂). Lovely, inspiring evening full of hopes, dreams, and community spirit.
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February 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So, last night a little film about the museum made it's debut at the 1st Leiston Community Film Festival (soon to eclipse Sundance 😂). Lovely, inspiring evening full of hopes, dreams, and community spirit.
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It's National Flirting Day! Victorian singletons found an opportunity for playfully sexual badinage in the viewing of albums of home-made photo-collage art. Any flirting rituals from other eras?
February 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It's National Flirting Day! Victorian singletons found an opportunity for playfully sexual badinage in the viewing of albums of home-made photo-collage art. Any flirting rituals from other eras?
Actual photo of me dealing with all the tripe that this Friday has chosen to fling at me.
February 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Actual photo of me dealing with all the tripe that this Friday has chosen to fling at me.
It's St. Valentines Day, honey!
February 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It's St. Valentines Day, honey!
Is everyone OK? In meetings most of yesterday, but it appears a few of you had some sort of identity crisis.
February 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Is everyone OK? In meetings most of yesterday, but it appears a few of you had some sort of identity crisis.
That feeling when a book that you pre-ordered over six months ago, and had forgotten about, turns up in your letterbox. 🤗 📔
February 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
That feeling when a book that you pre-ordered over six months ago, and had forgotten about, turns up in your letterbox. 🤗 📔
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The weather is tres gloomy and it's cold so we are looking to warmer days and bluer skies.
Here's the Hall looking rather lovely on a summer's day.
You are welcome. 😘
Here's the Hall looking rather lovely on a summer's day.
You are welcome. 😘
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The weather is tres gloomy and it's cold so we are looking to warmer days and bluer skies.
Here's the Hall looking rather lovely on a summer's day.
You are welcome. 😘
Here's the Hall looking rather lovely on a summer's day.
You are welcome. 😘
We've been informed that today is 'Lost Penny' Day. In recognition of which:
February 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We've been informed that today is 'Lost Penny' Day. In recognition of which:
As we segue into the late evening here in the UK, I'd just like to thank everyone who got on board with the #superbowl / #superb #owl thing today - particularly the sustained and inspired nonsense from @romanpalace.bsky.social and @yorkadventurers.bsky.social - thanks for a fun afternoon! 😁
February 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
As we segue into the late evening here in the UK, I'd just like to thank everyone who got on board with the #superbowl / #superb #owl thing today - particularly the sustained and inspired nonsense from @romanpalace.bsky.social and @yorkadventurers.bsky.social - thanks for a fun afternoon! 😁
Here's our super bowl! An injection moulded hand wash bowl, produced as an example of the products that could be made using the S & S moulding machines that were built by Garrett Engineering in the 1970's. Impressive, we think, but no half-time show.
February 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Here's our super bowl! An injection moulded hand wash bowl, produced as an example of the products that could be made using the S & S moulding machines that were built by Garrett Engineering in the 1970's. Impressive, we think, but no half-time show.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM