What's on at Vestry House Museum

A talk by Peter Higginbotham, author of The Workhouse Cookbook   View this email in your browser Lifting the Lid on Workhouse Food: A talk by Peter Higginbotham This Saturday 10 September, 2pm Vestry House Museum £5 (£3 concessions) According to Charles Dickens, workhouse inmates were fed on "three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays." Was he telling it like it was, or spinning us a yarn? The truth may surprise you! Find out more and book your place Copyright © 2016 Vestry House Museum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to Vestry House Museum's mailing list. Our mailing address is: Vestry House Museum Vestry Road London, E17 9NH United Kingdom Add us to your address book

Snapshots of migrant lives in Leyton since the 1930s   View this email in your browser Our Changing Communities: 1930 to 2015 Saturday 10 September, 12-4pm Vestry House Museum Free entry, light refreshments provided To register or for more information please contact Parul Motin:Laddersypwc@gmail.com Join us on Saturday 10 September to see Our Changing Communities, a special pop-up exhibition organised by local young people from Ladders inclusive youth arts group and George Mitchell School. The project explores migration to the Leyton community through oral history snapshots of migrant lives in the area between from the 1950s and the present day. The stories follow seven women and five men of Somali, Pakistani, Jamaican, Grenadian, Mauritian, Lithuanian, Ugandan Asian, Greek Cypriot and Dominican heritage. Inspired by the stories shared, the young volunteers of Ladders have created artworks drawn from the interviews, marrying poetry and drama. Our Changing Communities is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Image of Leyton sign: Fosterpann(CC BY-SA 4.0) Copyright © 2016 Vestry House Museum, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to Vestry House Museum's mailing list. Our mailing address is: Vestry House Museum Vestry Road London, E17 9NH United Kingdom Add us to your address book