Elise, our Work Experience student has found another item that interests her: This set of 12 vials contain gases that were used in the Second World War. Thankfully, all the gases are in such small quantities that smelling them won’t cause any harm! The case comes from Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Today is #internationaltowncrierday, celebrating the lost role of the Town Crier. This photo is of a Town Crier visiting a market next to Chequer Mead in 2001. Perhaps he was calling out the best bargains to everyone?

A find from Naomi, one of our Work Experience Students this week: "A watercolour painting of the rear of the shops of East Grinstead. I found out that July is World Watercolour Month, and wanted to find an example of a beautiful watercolour painting relating to East Grinstead"

Today, 83 years ago, the Guinea Pig Club was started by a group of patients at the Queen Victoria Hospital. Each of these patients were aircrew, who had been badly burned and had been treated by Archibald McIndoe By the end of the Second World War, there were 649 members.

Our next Children’s Activity Day is today! The activities are aimed at children between 4 and 10. It's between 10:30am and 3pm at the Museum. Tickets are just £3.50 per child. #ChildrensActivity #EastGrinstead (Plus the Museum has air conditioning - did we mention that?)

As the summer holidays finish, and school restarts, we wanted to share this photo of Class 3, East Grinstead Council School taken by Arthur Harding in around 1903. They look so pleased to be back at school!

London Road, East Grinstead in 1951...

Our next talk is coming up soon, and it's about Geoffrey Page one of the members of the Guinea Pig Club. This talk is by author John Willis. The talk is on Thursday 3rd October at 7:00pm at the Museum. Tickets are £6.50. Tickets can be ordered here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1000009444167

We recently came across this photograph of a classroom in the Hobbs Barracks School It appears to show a geography lesson and was taken by the East Grinstead Observer in November 1972. But we wanted to ask: does anyone remember the school at the barracks?

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Thank you very much for finding out about this!

It's #NationalTeddyBearDay and we wanted to celebrate with this image of some children with a teddy bear (and by the looks of it, an exceptionally tasty toy train?). The photo is undated but it's connected with a group of photos related to the East Grinstead Evening Institute.

It's #GymDay today, celebrating all things related to gyms and working out. Clearly, many people's first experiences of a gym are the ones at a school - like this one from the prospectus for St Agnes School. Hats off to the girl on the left who is halfway up a rope!

It's #InternationalChocolateDay today, and what better way to celebrate than with tis image of T.D. Dukes Chocolate shop on the High Street, taken in 1905? (clearly, the answer is eating actual chocolate, but that's slightly out of our control...)

Sadly, we learnt last week that Bob Marchant, the former Secretary of the Guinea Pig Club passed away in his sleep. Bob’s tireless energy and deep care for the Guinea Pigs and their story was clear to all. Some details on Bob's life are here: eastgrinsteadmuseum.org.uk/robert-marchan…

Job vacancy - EastGrinsteadMuseum is recruiting a Museum Development Manager to lead the museum’s overall activities and its ambitious plans. 3 days a week, 18 month contract. Closing date 31 October: aim-museums.co.uk/vacancies/muse…