Posts with tag: Long Shop Museum

Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

The Extra Time teams examine some old blue prints at Leiston Long Shop and then create their own.

Double elephants and laundromats

Match of the Day

The children return to the Long Shop Museum, to match the workers with the players and create their own Extra Time football game

Extra Time wins in Leiston

The Extra Time team at Leiston Primary School listen to a story about creating a football pitch, recorded in 1985, and examine newspapers going back to the beginning of the last century. Then they take a glorious walk past the allotments to visit Leiston Long Shop Museum.

Football moves and factory spaces – Extra Time kicks off in Leiston

The opening session at Leiston Primary school gave us the opportunity to meet the children and find out why they wanted to take part in Extra Time. It also gave the children a chance to meet us, in particular Hatty our theatre-maker, who soon had the children being football pitches and making factories.

Extra Time in Leiston

The Extra Time team visit Year 5 at Leiston Primary school to chat about the connection between Garretts Engineering and football in the town and make some football characters of their own.

The Long Shop and The Hold

Volunteers from the Long Shop Museum in Leiston visit The Hold in Ipswich to explore the Garrett archives at first hand