-----Original Message----- From: Jean Peach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2007 21:47 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Reading University Museum of english rural life.
To day I had to go to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, as I came out from the hospital I noticed the Museum of English Rural Life on the other side of the road. It used to be on the Reading University Campus. Now it has moved into a much larger building which now houses their whole collection. You can go to the museum for free. Downstairs they have the farm machinery etc. I asked about their lace collection, they have a little which is housed upstairs, you have to [pre-book to see this. I was lucky they showed me quickly, a couple of lace lamps, pillows, patterns, bobbins, lucet's tatting shuttles. Oh yes there is a lovely collection of bonnet's, smocks. There is lace, but scattered in different draws. The garden is being landscaped, will shortly be opened to the public. I sent a message done quickly last night, seems to have been lost in space. Shortcut to: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/rhc/ Jean in Berkshire. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
