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Visitors July 2008 Spanish exchange students. Two Australian tourists put Otley on their itinerary so that they could visit the museum in order to see our Wharfedale Printing Machine and our printers’ engineers archive. A schoolgirl bringing in her Irish cousins. The Ideas and Innovations Display which featured the Simpson family, local inventors and plant breeders of the Otley Korean Chrysanthemum. We advertised this nationally on the Culture24 website. The publicity resulted in a visit from a couple from Gloucester, direct descendants of the Simpson family who were delighted to find out more about their family. ‘I’m writing on behalf of the members of Laisterdyke Local History Group to say thank you very warmly for our visit earlier this week. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and we were all fascinated by the wonderful collection of artefacts. Thank you too for the helpfulness with which you received us, particularly our three most elderly members (with a combined age of 284, which may be a record for visits to the Museum!). It was a joy for everyone that they were able to participate, and I only regret that I omitted to bring my camera.’
One of the museum volunteers, Reg Dyson, was asked to go to Bristol to advise on the condition of a Wharfedale printing Machine which had been stored in a barn for about 5 years. Could it be restored for display in the collection at The Type Museum in London? It could! |
