The annual Barton Arts Festival offers a professional programme of cultural activities and participatory events for local people, including Barton Open Gardens on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 June.

Baysgarth Park was gifted to the people of Barton by Mrs. Thomas Ramsden in 1930. North Lincolnshire Council took ownership in 1996. Thanks to the efforts of the local community,... Read more...

It is estimated that as much as sixty per cent of art on the current market is fake. Marilyn Roberts returns to take a light-hearted look at how some of... Read more...

This heritage festival has become a major event in Barton’s calendar, drawing in many visitors from far and wide, as well as opening up hidden treasures and stories to residents.... Read more...

Samuel Wilderspin began his pioneering work spreading Infant Schools throughout the British Isles in 1820. To commemorate this bicentenary anniversary Ian Wolseley explores the travels, trials and tribulations of this... Read more...

Neil Wilkyn analyses a probate inventory, a document compiled after an individual’s death listing all that they owed. This example gives us a tantalising glimpse into the home of a... Read more...

Colin Cooper describes how the character of Hull has been shaped by its geography and history.  Hull was once the UK's third port and the world’s largest fishing port, the... Read more...

The Humber Estuary is one of the most important estuaries in Europe for wildlife and is designated as a Special Area of Conservation.  Jackson Sage describes the wonders of this... Read more...

Susanna Wesley was the mother of John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodist movement.  Catherine Fordham shares Susanna’s life story including her marriage to Samuel Wesley, her support... Read more...

Madeleine Gray, Collections Assistant with North Lincolnshire Museums Service, explores the history of the suffragette movement, and how suffragettes used fashion to emphasise their cause.  Non-members £4.

Martin Watts, from the Wagoners’ Museum at Sledmere, describes the importance of horses for the army in the First World War, and the role of Wagoners’ Special Reserve’s veterinary hospitals... Read more...

Liz Bennet reviews the efforts of the local community, in partnership with North Lincolnshire Council and Barton Town Council, to care for the Park which now has a Green Flag... Read more...