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Borrowing from the Museum collection again for today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme – some splendid Christmas crackers handmade by patients of Claybury Hospital in the 1980s as part of the Occupational Therapy department. The department made & sold 6000 crackers each year! 🎀

Santa’s given up his sleigh and reindeer in this photo from our collection showing him on the High Street, Barkingside, advertising the Bodgers Christmas Bazaar, about 1940s 🛍️ #Shopping #ArchiveAdventCalendar

📢 Redbridge Museum will have slightly different opening hours during the Christmas period. Please take note of the poster so you can plan your trip to us accordingly! We will resume our normal opening hours (Tues-Sat 11-5) from Thursday 2 January.

School’s out for Christmas – enjoy your holidays! 🎄 📸: Evacuees from an Ilford school in Suffolk, Second World War.

Don’t miss the Redbridge Museum Christmas trail! 🎄 Peek into our freshly decorated room-sets & displays to find Christmas objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves 🔎 Drop in anytime that we’re open (see poster) & pick up a trail from the front desk to take part.

Stockings at the ready? Our choice from the Museum collection is this cheerful 1970s number complete with a reindeer’s head 🧦#ArchiveAdventCalendar

A reminder of our Christmas opening hours if you are planning a visit to Redbridge Museum during the holidays!

It’s Christmas Eve – have you got your turkey?! 🦃 📸: Staff (and turkeys) take a picture outside J. Sainsbury’s on 14 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, 1913

Merry Christmas from Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre! 🎄 📸: Christmas festivities at King George Hospital, c.1930

And a happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends! 🕎 Tonight is the first of eight nights of the Jewish winter festival, each marked with the lighting of a candle on a menorah, like this one in our Jewish Redbridge display. What are your Hanukkah traditions?

Planning a visit to Redbridge Museum today? We are open from 11am until 4pm on Friday 27 & Saturday 28 December. If you’re coming as a family, don’t forget to pick up a Christmas trail from the front desk to help us find objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves! 🔎

Happy New Year from Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre! 🥳 Our highlight of 2024 was re-opening the Museum’s permanent exhibition after a busy few years redeveloping with the help of our community & funders – thank you all & we look forward to your visits in the coming year!

It’s great to hear back from our visitors about how the Museum makes them feel! We’re open from 11-5 today, why not pop in while you’re in town?

We were pleased to receive Dr Rachel Lichtenstein on a visit to our Jewish Redbridge display at Redbridge Museum a few months ago. In this blog by Hidden Treasures she writes about viewing the Newbury Park Synagogue archive, newspaper cuttings & more! 🔗: celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/coll…

From rescued archives to new displays, discover the Jewish community's history in Ilford and the London Borough of Redbridge in our new blog post about Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/coll… #JewishHistory #JewishCommunity #AngloJewish #BritishJews #NewBlog #Archives

Today was ‘A Big Day for Redbridge’ (and particularly Ilford) in 1987 – watch this film from our collection on Film London to find out why! 👇 buff.ly/4h5tEyQ