The sun is shining (at the moment), the train was on time and I have a delicious latte for the journey. Not a bad way to start a Friday. #FridayFeeling #museumlife #latte #CaffeItalissimo
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Leona White-Hannant
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Leona White-Hannant
@LeonaWhtHannant
Development Director @hopetowndarl who loves food, flowers, cats and the odd glass of wine. All views my own.
Darlington, England Katılım Ağustos 2017
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We are pleased to award a grant of £25,000 to @darlingtonbc for work to the North Road Station redevelopment project which will allow a clock to be reinstated in the historic Goods Shed.
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Lovely morning at Redhall Community Centre catching up with the museum team & seeing the Station Scamps under 5s having so much fun making Easter crispie cakes & playing with the toys 🐈⬛🚂 🍫 #stationscamps #museumredevelopment #museumoutreach #museumonthemove
#darlington
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⭐️We are looking to appoint two new posts for the Darlington Rail Heritage Quarter site: Visitor Experience Manager and Marketing and Communications Officer. More info can be found via the links👇
northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Visitor_Ex…
northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Marketing_…
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A fantastic new job has just been advertised for our site - Heritage and Community Participation Manager. Based in Darlington you'll work along the S&DR Line with community groups in the run up to the bicentenary and beyond. 🚂
northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Heritage_C…
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For #InternationalWomensDay we acknowledge the thousands of unrecorded women who worked as gatekeepers for the railways as part of early railway housing tenancy agreements.
We may not know your names, but we recognize your importance in railway history.
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Productive week of planning meetings for the museum site's redevelopment including events and interpretation. Today is office admin with my 'helper' who is hindering the sorting of office boxes 📦 😼 #workingfromhomewithcats #museumlife #workingfromhome #darlingtonrailheritage
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First week of being based at home nearly over. Work area set up ✅️ Coffee machine on ✅️ Backlog of emails (almost) complete after a month of museum decant ✅️ Now to concentrate on the redevelopment project! #museumlife #museumredevelopment #workingfromhome
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🥳🥳🥳 Finally able to announce that the museum site and S&DR line have been awarded over £3m in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund! 🥳🥳🥳
Hopetown Darlington@hopetowndarl
🎉Exciting news! 🎉 The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded more than £3m to enable the development of the Rail Heritage Quarter, a key part of the celebration of the bicentenary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. ℹ️ head-of-steam.co.uk/future-plans/n…
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@MuseumsAssoc @Sharonheal @Leonie_S_Bell @NatHistGirl @Arike_Oke Thoroughly enjoyed this session, thank you. Refreshing, inspiring and honest advice.
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What kind of leadership do we need during times of crisis, and what might that look like going forward? 💭
It’s time for the first plenary of the day, ‘Leading change’ with @Sharonheal, @Leonie_S_Bell, Christopher Breward, @NatHistGirl and @Arike_Oke.
#Museums2022
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Lovely preview tonight for the Locos and Lemon Tops exhibition 🚂 🍦#museumlife #summerexhibition #ohidoliketobebesidetheseaside #railwayheritage @ Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum instagram.com/p/CfMsL3rNfej/…
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Love our seaside photo peep board designed for the Locos and Lemon Tops exhibition at work 😎🏖 #ohidoliketobebesidetheseaside #museumlife #museumexhibition @ Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum instagram.com/p/CfJ68v0tI0B/…
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Early start this morning as we're off to the Museum and Heritage Show in London! #darlingtonrailwaystation #stationclock #museumlife #museumandheritageshow
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Exciting times for the museum site. Still can't believe it's happening. #museums #museumredevelopment #railwayheritage #digitalinterpretation
Hopetown Darlington@hopetowndarl
Fantastic news! 🥳 We've been awarded £300k from @ace_national towards state of the art virtual reality experiences and digital interpretation to help bring history to life at the new museum site due to open in Summer 2024. #Darlington #museums #LoveDarlo
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Fantastic trip to @derbymuseums Museum of Making with @LeonaWhtHannant thanks to all the staff who welcomed us!
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Perfect day for a site visit to @Bamburgh_Castle with @LeonaWhtHannant
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🥳 We are delighted to announce that work has officially started on construction of Darlington’s Railway Heritage Quarter due to open in 2024! 🥳
🚂 The project is being supported by £20m from @TeesValleyCA #OnTrackFor2024 #Darlington #Railways #SDR2025 #SDR200 #LoveDarlo
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Today we welcomed Terry Deary and Angela Ripon to the museum. Terry was talking to Angela about his new book Horrible Histories 'Right on Track' all about terrible train travel! 🚂@HH_World #railways #railwayhistory #horriblehistories #rightontrack
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Can't believe our project made it into Greece's Marie Claire! Railways and fashion mags - who would have thought! 😮
Hopetown Darlington@hopetowndarl
⭐A railway museum in a fashion magazine?⭐ On Track for Change and work by @Altlimbpro has been featured in Marie Claire in Greece! The installation unveiled last year, is still on display in the museum if you would like to find out more. marieclaire.gr/art-lifestyle/…
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Early morning site visit to Piercebridge with @grange_alison The view was beautiful even if the weather was freezing 🥶 #museumlife #archaeology #Piercebridge #piercebridgeromanfort
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