Saucy secrets of museum exhibit
Saucy secrets of museum exhibit
A DAY off work and I make my first ever visit to the Bagshaw Museum, Wilton Park, Batley.
The weather is hot, I didn't know if the steep walk to the museum, shaded by trees, I was relieved to see the sign: ‘Breathe for some air, you are halfway there'.
In the museum is an exhibition called Secrets of the Saucy Seaside Postcards, which remind me of family excursions to Bridlington when I was a child.
The cards, which were skilfully done, were designed at Bamforths studio in Holmfirth.
All proposed postcards were submitted to a censor baord. Attitudes about such cards have changed over the years, feminists deemed them, as they did the Benny Hill TV show, to be sexist.
Two items on display, the Irish Letter and Assorted Chocolates card, would not have been printed today and rightly so.
Visitors are asked to give their thoughts on the exhibition by filling in a card, I hope they do. Postcard collecting is a popular hobby, but in the era of texting and emails their use is in decline.
Walter Bagshaw, founder of the museum, aimed to bring the world to Batley and he has achieved this with exhibitions on Bollywood and the Cinema, Gandhi and the Independence Movement, Faith and Worship, not to mention local hero Joseph Priestley.
The museum is enjoyable, as is the waterside walk in the park, not to mention the pint of beer in the nearby pub where I scribbled these notes, but that's another story!
JOHN APPLEYARD
Firthcliffe Parade
LIVERSEDGE
SEASIDE FUN: An exhibit about saucy British postcards is on at Bagshaw Museum.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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