The Mobile Museum of Memorabilia

I needed to sort out something for Monday, so headed for the other side of the building. This took me through the City Council’s reception area, where I paused and chatted to these two. Laid out on a couple of tables were all sorts of old objects.

It turned out that they run the Mobile Museum of Memorabilia. The idea - it’s a good one - is that in Salford a lot of people would never dream of going into a museum (they are a middle class thing, and are not for them). Their children consequently never go. And lots of the elderly simply cannot get out. So they have organised the Mobile Museum, to take objects to the people rather than the other way around, and which features a lot of objects which will trigger memories (or interest).

Featured in the blip - he (“the Merry Trotter”) is holding an old pair of cuff links, and a spear head. It was brought here - presumably by someone from Salford who was in the army at the time- from South Africa, and is a relic from the battle of Rorke’s Drift. The Zulu wars. And Michael Caine (I recall seeing the film at the Astonia Cinema when it came out).

She is holding an interesting Dodecahedron. Her son made it using a 3D printer, it is a replica of objects found from Wales to France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The originals are often bronze, and Roman - the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. No-one has any idea of their purpose. Answers on a postcard .........

Extra / some of the objects on a table. Some I know, others I don’t