CRAFTY CAMERAS 📸 Make and take away your own pinhole camera with Redbridge Museum! For ages 6+ 📅 Tuesday 11 August 2026 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in anytime) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/crafty-cameras

Happy Playday! 🪀 Why not bring along your under 5s to our Mini Museum today to play as a Victorian shopkeeper, cook in a mini-1930s kitchen, climb aboard a vintage London bus, and dress up in costume from the past!

Our #EYASurprise for August was to discover we had missed July’s theme of #EYAArchitecture with a great offering after a visit from the @barnardos.org.uk Archives to view this plan of the Church in the Girl’s Village Home, Barkingside, 1892. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Exciting! Don't forget you have unlimited access to newspapers when you use the British Newspaper Archive from Redbridge Heritage Centre and other Redbridge libraries 📰 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/heritage

British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · last wk.

Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci

What a wonderful window! Come along to make and take away your own stained glass craft just like this tomorrow at Redbridge Heritage Centre. 📅 Tuesday 4 August 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/wonderful-windows

WONDERFUL WINDOWS 🪟 Come along to design your own stained glass window craft based on real windows on display at Redbridge Museum! For ages 6+ 📅 Tuesday 4 August 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/wonderful-windows

Happy Friendship Day! 🫂 Here are members of the Ilford Women’s Co-operative Guild ready in an open-topped coach for an outing to Brighton on 24 June 1926.

ENDING SOON: Redbridge and the Second World War Just one month left to visit our exhibition marking the 80the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 📅 Until Sunday 30 August 2026 📍 First floor, Redbridge Central Library, Ilford 🎟️ Free admission 🔗 vrcl.uk/museum-ww2

WONDERFUL WINDOWS 🪟 Come along to design your own stained glass window craft based on real windows on display at Redbridge Museum! For ages 6+ 📅 Tuesday 4 August 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/wonderful-windows

Thanks to all who dropped in yesterday to play a game of carrom with us! 🔗 Look out for more Terrific Tuesdays with Redbridge Museum this summer holiday: visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-terrific-tuesdays

A throwback to some of the lovely people who joined us for our carrom games last year! Fancy having a go? Come along tomorrow to play! 📅 Tuesday 28 July 2026 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in anytime) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-carrom

Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre@redbridgemuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s been a great day playing carrom with local families! We met lots of parents reminiscing about playing the game in their childhood, now teaching and playing with their own children. Carrom seems to be more than just a game of strategy – it’s also about community, camaraderie, and nostalgia!

Next week we’re bringing our carrom board back out for free drop-in games to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month! Bring along friends and family to challenge them and show off your moves! 📅 Tuesday 28 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-carrom

We love this mammoth mosaic so much that we’ve decided to add it to our SGI citation. The updated link is below londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social

Ruth Siddall@pavementgeology.bsky.social · 3w ago

A mosaic of ‘Marley the Ilford Mammoth’ made from plastic bottle tops by artist Caitlin Atherton commemorates a mammoth skull excavated in 1863 from Uphall brick pits, Ilford. It’s a steppe mammoth, which lived c 200,000 ka 🦣 londongeopartnership.org.uk/wp/wp-conten... #londongeology

Next week we’re bringing our carrom board back out for free drop-in games to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month! Bring along friends and family to challenge them and show off your moves! 📅 Tuesday 28 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-carrom

Don’t forget – our Terrific Tuesdays start tomorrow with On the Ball! Come along to make and play your own blow football game based on vintage games from our object collection! ⚽️ 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/on-th...

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Make and play your own blow football game based on vintage games from the Redbridge Museum collection!

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Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre@redbridgemuseum.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s an exciting week in the World Cup tournament – and we’re going to keep the football fun going next week with our first Terrific Tuesday craft activity! Join us to make and play your very own blow football game based on vintage games in the Museum collection! 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/on-th...

It’s an exciting week in the World Cup tournament – and we’re going to keep the football fun going next week with our first Terrific Tuesday craft activity! Join us to make and play your very own blow football game based on vintage games in the Museum collection! 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/on-th...

Fabula Festival is back next week! 🎆 Make and take away your own storybook all about the amazing things that have happened in our borough in our Story of Redbridge craft activity! 📅 Saturday 18 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/story...

It’s an exciting week in the World Cup tournament – and we’re going to keep the football fun going next week with our first Terrific Tuesday craft activity! Join us to make and play your very own blow football game based on vintage games in the Museum collection! 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/on-th...

The Ilford Hospital Carnival took place on this day in 1907. It was a major event in the early 20th century where hundreds dressed up and walked – or rode – in procession through Ilford to raise funds for the Ilford Emergency Hospital (now King George Hospital).

Fabula Festival is back next week! 🎆 Make and take away your own storybook all about the amazing things that have happened in our borough in our Story of Redbridge craft activity! 📅 Saturday 18 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/story...

Terrific Tuesdays!   Drop into Redbridge Heritage Centre anytime from 12-4pm every Tuesday this summer holiday to take part in games and craft activities with Redbridge Museum!     Tickets cost £2.00, no need to book in advance. Suitable for ages 6+   🔗: visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-te...

Big fans (sorry) of the interesting and varied designs of these fans in the Museum collection 🌬️ Remember to keep cool indoors and out today!

📸: The Fairlop Boat (on wheels) at Barkingside, Ilford, 1900, probably taken on the first Friday of July for the Fairlop Fair! Find out more about the Fair here: bsky.app/profile/redb...

A museum that rivals ours! Thanks and well done to Glade Primary School who invited our Education Officer to see a fantastic showcase of artwork, creative writing and models created by pupils following their visits to Redbridge Museum this year. We loved seeing your creativity brought to life!

Happy first day of Wimbledon 🎾 📸: Girls playing on the tennis lawn at the Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, about 1909

A special spotlight on Ken Aston of Barkingside who introduced the red and yellow card system in football for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico 🟥🟨 Ken was Headteacher of Newbury Park Primary School in Ilford but enjoyed a long career as a referee and managed the referees at the 1966 World Cup.

This Windrush Day, discover the stories of Redbridge’s Windrush generation in our short film ‘Memories of Windrush’, featuring oral histories from our collection. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1... 📸: The Byer family from Barbados, c.1959

Secretly wishing we could take out our perfect 1950s picnic set this weekend for #NationalPicnicWeek! 🧺

It may look like a quirky little watering can, but this oil lamp was used by Ilford Borough Council on roads and street corners to warn vehicles off of pavements during air pollution events like the Great Smog of 1952 which led to local accidents, sickness and death 😷 #CleanAirDay

We’re excited for Tech Ilford tomorrow! Come along from 11am to take part in our brand new STEM-themed trail and collect your Tech Ilford medal! 📅: Saturday 13 June 2026 🕒: 11am to 3pm (drop in) 📍: Redbridge Museum 🔗: visionrcl.org.uk/events/super...