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Spring 2008 edition

Features

	Pendean – a yeoman’s house from West Lavington, West Sussex
	Working the Museum’s woodland

News

	Landscape Conservation Management Plan in final stages
	Thinking ahead - A new Forward Plan
	New paths at the Museum
	Farm livestock at the Museum
	Long-straw experiments in the Museum’s fields
	Museum Friends makes vital Contribution
	A gift with a difference…that makes a world of difference

Collections News

	Collections update
	A new home for vehicles and implements

Interpretation News

	Cutting your Cloth – the Museum’s Historic Clothing Project gets into its stride
	Focus Days highlight aspects of the Museum’s work
	Grow your own clothes

Education News

	Wood, the Museum and me
	Bread and potatoes – local children discover the source of their food!

People in the News

	Royal Gold Medal for Downland Gridshell architect
	People - Welcome to new staff and volunteers and some farewells
	Obituary Neil McGregor- Wood
	Obituaries

News in Brief

	Rare Breeds Survival Trust at Rare Breeds Show
	International Guild of Knot Tyers
	Translating Landscape into Architecture
	British Artist Blacksmiths Association
	Open Air Museums Conference to be held at WDOAM
	Exhibition of Gordon Rushmer Paintings
	Toplots Heritage Auction
	Will at the Weald
	Staff and Volunteer Training
	Water raising equipment maintenance
	Fundraising Training Programme
	Letters

Autumn 2007 edition

Features

	Poplar Cottage – a wasteland cottage from Washington, West Sussex
	Timber framing in the Weald and Downland
	Dendrochronology and its use at the Museum
	Museum exhibit buildings dated using dendrochronology

News

	DCMS/Wolfson Fund supports new vehicle and implement gallery
	Hay barn to be re-erected this winter
	Landscape Conservation Management Plan under way
	Southwater Smithy is put on the map with blacksmith’s “forge-in”

Collections News

	Threshing train display for Ockley hay barn
	Collections update
	Collections update - Tony White’s collection

Education

New opportunities for schools

Staff Matters

	Museum gardener, Bob Holman, retires
	New faces
	David Russell – Obituary
	Obituaries

News in brief

	Images of Bayleaf exhibition,
	Cancer Research UK Race for Life
	MSc in Timber Building Conservation
	British White bull wins at Persil-sponsored rare breeds show!
	Full steam ahead
	Communities come together for Romani Roots
	Bees return to the Museum
	Will at the Weald
	Staff and volunteer training programme
	Toplots Heritage Auction

2007 Christmas Card and Advent Calendar

Spring 2007 edition

Museum News

	Landscape Conservation Plan will examine visitor centre site
	Museum Friends’ makes largest ever grant
	Farm management at the Museum
	News in brief

Features

	Bayleaf - a Wealden hall house from Chiddingstone, Kent
	Wooden scaffolding for Cowfold Barn re-thatching
	Matching old lime mortar in historic buildings
	Dating the Museum’s buildings by tree-ring analysis

Collections News

	Collections update
	Timber yard develops
	Threshing drum to be restored
	New storage for archives
	Keeping evil at bay
	Filming agricultural machinery in action
	Museum films now available as podcasts

Interpretation News

Historic clothing project launched

Education News

	The games Tudor children played
	Learning about buildings and rural crafts through the Museum’s extensive courses programme

Gardening

Frustrating time for Museum gardeners

Events and a competition!

	Children discover countryside and history
	Power!
	Celebrating Romani lifestyle
	Demonstrating early keyboards
	Walking West Sussex Festival comes to Singleton
	Lanterns and a dragon fire up the Autumn
	Celebrating the harvest
	Images of Bayleaf

People in the News

	Brian Weekes - Renaissance Man
	Betty Rush

Autumn 2006 edition

Features

	The Museum moves forward on its Access Project
	Boarhunt Hall House and its origins
	New Museum films will reveal how agricultural machines worked

Collections News

	The Museum acquires a ‘Tin Tabernacle’
	St. Margaret’s Mission Church, South Wonston, Hampshire.
	Collections Update

Staff Matters

	Marjorie Hallam
	Obituaries

Education

	Discover more about buildings and rural crafts through the Museum’s course programmes
	Traditional Brickwork
	To Estonia for a Lifelong Learning Conference
	New education website draws in the crowds!

News

2006 - The News in Pictures

	Tudor Suppers
	Domestic Demonstrations
	Exhibition of drawings of Bayleaf
	Quality Assurance Audit for the MSc!
	Growing flax at the Museum
	Benefiting from the gift aid scheme
	Re-erecting Buildings
	Friends Fund Raising
	Race for Life
	Visitor Numbers
	New Horse at the Museum
	Outdoor Theatre
	Volunteering at the Museum
	Ann Kirby
	Shingled Spire to be built at the Museum

Whatever happened to Gert and Daisy?

Restoration and the Gypsies

Spring 2006 edition

Features

	‘Hidden histories’ plans to bring agricultural equipment to life
	Hangleton Cottage and its medieval village
	John Hurst and archaeological reconstructions at the Museum
	Museum Hubs, Renaissance in the region? Designation Accreditation? What are these?

Collections

	Timber crane restored ready for new working life
	Trug workshop moves to the Museum
	New additions to the collection
	Museum catalogues on the web.

Staff Matters

	Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associates appointed
	Hooked on the Museum! Reminiscences of a long-term volunteer.
	Staff News

Education Service

	Let's face it children have fun at the Museum!
	Five Museum MSc students achieve academic success
	Its an exciting time in heritage education
	Museum links with local schools for innovative project

News

	New oxen pair to begin training
	Sheep folding
	Vital help from the Friends
	Vegetables of all shapes and sizes
	News in Brief

Autumn 2005 edition

Features

	Interpreting the Museum
	Twelfth Night and the Lord of Misrule
	Old vegetable varieties go on sale at Museum shop
	How a Knowledge Transfer Partnership will benefit the Museum
	Creating a timber yard in the Museum's woodland
	Memorial sculpture to Churchill spends summer in the Gridshell

Other News

	35 Years of Welcoming Visitors
	Visitor Admissions up
	Collections update - rat traps and a lethal bench drill!
	Museum courses cover two thirds of the year - Lifelong Learning
	Museums are not just for history - The schools service.
	New signage for the Museum site next year
	A real frame to climb on
	Discover the museum in winter
	Experience our 15th century farmhouse at an evening supper

	People at the Museum
	News in Brief
	2005 - News in pictures

Spring 2005 edition

Features

	Museum Friends' Contribute over £1,000,000
	Major improvements at Lurgashall Mill
	Changes for Boarhunt
	Colourwash and Plaster on 17th century Brickwork
	Rare Horse-drawn Vehicles join Museum Collection
	Museum’s Storage and Access Project Moves Forward
	How the Museum Cares for its Landscape, Trees and Woodlands
	Aerial photos show changes in the Museum’s landscape

Other News

	Education update - Schools and Lifelong Learning
	Oxen at Work
	News from the Gardens. 500 years ago -what would you have had for your lunch?
	Volunteers - Keeping the Lifeblood Flowing
	People News
	News in brief

Autumn 2004 edition

Features

	Laying the basis for the Museum's future
	Visitor Numbers and the 'Gridshell effect'
	Artefact Update
	Museum tackles offsite large objects collection
	Schools Services
	Museum shop moves towards local products
	Volunteer Support Project

Other News

	Magazine changes
	Take a look ‘Under the Surface’
	Enjoy winter at the Museum
	News in Brief
	The Year in Pictures
	New event for local community on Mother's Day
	People at the Museum

Spring 2004 edition

Features

	Looking to the future
	How ‘Designation’ is helping the Museum achieve high standards
	Firing a Brick Kiln
	The Website - www.wealddown.co.uk
	Gypsy caravan joins Museum collection
	Treasures among our collections
	Tudor flower border in Summer... And a plant to delight us in the Winter

Other News

	Education update - Schools and Lifelong Learning
	Supporting the Museums greatest asset - our volunteers
	Two Museum companies merge
	Cornmillers Guild visits the Museum
	Visitors flock to our events
	The Copper Family returns to sing Sussex songs
	Using the museum for a wide range of events
	People News
	News in brief

Autumn 2003 edition

Features

	Discovering the Museum’s smaller artefacts
	Organising the Museum’s new Collections Store
	The Downland Gridshell — at work!
	Historic buildings reveal their secrets in special Winter tours
	Sharing Ideas with European Open Air Museums
	Field strips demonstrate historic crop methods

Other News

	Around the Museum
	Visitors in 2003
	New pigs arrive at the Pendean pigsty
	News in Brief
	2003 The year in pictures

Spring 2003 edition

Features

	Forgotten Buildings: Detached Kitchens in South East England by David Martin
	Manners Makyth Man: Medieval table manners by Peter Brears
	Daft Idea! Diana Zeuner talks to Roger Champion, recently retired after 33 years as the Museum’s carpenter