Join our e-mailing list for e-news here.. IN OUR E-NEWSLETTERS YOU WILL DISCOVER: Progress: We have now achieved our first aim: to secure a community-owned multi-purpose boat shed on the old Whisstocks site. You can find out what will happen next – the news will come thick and fast now that WRT has possession of…
The Longshed is closed to the public following guidance on reducing the spread of the Covid 19 virus. We aren’t able to keep running practical projects but we are looking at ways of keeping things going using digital media for talks, sharing information and research. We will let you know what’s going on through the…
“Going with the Flow – tides and the Deben Estuary” is already a huge success. Over 400 people visited the exhibition in the first two days. More talks, an exhibition and other activities, including special events for children, will be on in the Longshed from 10.00-16.00 every day until Sunday 27th October. The full programme…
Come and watch the workers….on 9 October the Longshed will be a hive of activity – even more than usual when the volunteer shipbuilders are hard at work. The Longshed will be open from 10.00-16.00. Damian Goodburn – a leading expert in medieval oak and shipbuilding – is carrying out another training day, including hewing…
Sae Wylfing set off at five o’clock on Saturday morning for pride of place at the opening of the British Museum’s contribution to the Festival of Archaeology. Organised by the British Council of Archaeology, the festival runs from 13 to 28 July across the UK. An unintended detour via Trafalgar Square and Charing Cross Road…
To celebrate signing the lease and taking possession of the Longshed the Trustees organised a grand opening with the Town Mayor (Clare Perkins) cutting a ribbon and declaring the building open. It was anticipated that over the day visitor numbers would be in the order of 60 or 70, to everybody’s delight over 250 people…