Not long left to visit our exhibition on Redbridge & the Second World War! Come along to see it, then join us to make and take away your own wartime Spitfire plane craft! 📅 Tuesday 18 August 2026 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in anytime) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/speedy-spitfires

Best of luck to everyone receiving their A-Level results today! Hoping for high spirits, like these students at Caterham High School in 1961 🎉

Did you know you can safely view Wednesday’s solar eclipse through a pinhole camera? ☀️🌙 Come along to Redbridge Heritage Centre tomorrow to make your very own one inspired by the camera and photography collections at Redbridge Museum! 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/crafty-cameras

Happy Playday! 🪀 Why not bring along your under 5s to our Mini Museum today to play as a Victorian shopkeeper, cook in a mini-1930s kitchen, climb aboard a vintage London bus, and dress up in costume from the past!

Our #EYASurprise for August was to discover we had missed July’s theme of #EYAArchitecture with a great offering after a visit from the @barnardos.org.uk Archives to view this plan of the Church in the Girl’s Village Home, Barkingside, 1892. @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

What a wonderful window! Come along to make and take away your own stained glass craft just like this tomorrow at Redbridge Heritage Centre. 📅 Tuesday 4 August 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/wonderful-windows

Happy Friendship Day! 🫂 Here are members of the Ilford Women’s Co-operative Guild ready in an open-topped coach for an outing to Brighton on 24 June 1926.

ENDING SOON: Redbridge and the Second World War Just one month left to visit our exhibition marking the 80the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 📅 Until Sunday 30 August 2026 📍 First floor, Redbridge Central Library, Ilford 🎟️ Free admission 🔗 vrcl.uk/museum-ww2

Thanks to all who dropped in yesterday to play a game of carrom with us! 🔗 Look out for more Terrific Tuesdays with Redbridge Museum this summer holiday: visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-terrific-tuesdays

A throwback to some of the lovely people who joined us for our carrom games last year! Fancy having a go? Come along tomorrow to play! 📅 Tuesday 28 July 2026 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in anytime) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-carrom

Next week we’re bringing our carrom board back out for free drop-in games to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month! Bring along friends and family to challenge them and show off your moves! 📅 Tuesday 28 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-carrom

Fabula Festival is back next week! 🎆 Make and take away your own storybook all about the amazing things that have happened in our borough in our Story of Redbridge craft activity! 📅 Saturday 18 July 🕚 12:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Heritage Centre 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/story...

It’s an exciting week in the World Cup tournament – and we’re going to keep the football fun going next week with our first Terrific Tuesday craft activity! Join us to make and play your very own blow football game based on vintage games in the Museum collection! 🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/events/on-th...

The Ilford Hospital Carnival took place on this day in 1907. It was a major event in the early 20th century where hundreds dressed up and walked – or rode – in procession through Ilford to raise funds for the Ilford Emergency Hospital (now King George Hospital).

Terrific Tuesdays!   Drop into Redbridge Heritage Centre anytime from 12-4pm every Tuesday this summer holiday to take part in games and craft activities with Redbridge Museum!     Tickets cost £2.00, no need to book in advance. Suitable for ages 6+   🔗: visionrcl.org.uk/events/rm-te...

Big fans (sorry) of the interesting and varied designs of these fans in the Museum collection 🌬️ Remember to keep cool indoors and out today!

📸: The Fairlop Boat (on wheels) at Barkingside, Ilford, 1900, probably taken on the first Friday of July for the Fairlop Fair! Find out more about the Fair here: bsky.app/profile/redb...

A museum that rivals ours! Thanks and well done to Glade Primary School who invited our Education Officer to see a fantastic showcase of artwork, creative writing and models created by pupils following their visits to Redbridge Museum this year. We loved seeing your creativity brought to life!

Happy first day of Wimbledon 🎾 📸: Girls playing on the tennis lawn at the Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, about 1909

A special spotlight on Ken Aston of Barkingside who introduced the red and yellow card system in football for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico 🟥🟨 Ken was Headteacher of Newbury Park Primary School in Ilford but enjoyed a long career as a referee and managed the referees at the 1966 World Cup.

This Windrush Day, discover the stories of Redbridge’s Windrush generation in our short film ‘Memories of Windrush’, featuring oral histories from our collection. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1... 📸: The Byer family from Barbados, c.1959

Secretly wishing we could take out our perfect 1950s picnic set this weekend for #NationalPicnicWeek! 🧺

It may look like a quirky little watering can, but this oil lamp was used by Ilford Borough Council on roads and street corners to warn vehicles off of pavements during air pollution events like the Great Smog of 1952 which led to local accidents, sickness and death 😷 #CleanAirDay

We’re excited for Tech Ilford tomorrow! Come along from 11am to take part in our brand new STEM-themed trail and collect your Tech Ilford medal! 📅: Saturday 13 June 2026 🕒: 11am to 3pm (drop in) 📍: Redbridge Museum 🔗: visionrcl.org.uk/events/super...

The FIFA World Cup kicks off tonight! Here’s World Cup Willie, the official mascot for the 1966 tournament held in England, in keyring form from the Redbridge Museum collection 🦁⚽

It’s the International Day of Play! 🪀 Bring along your under 5s to our Mini Museum to play as a Victorian shopkeeper, cook in a mini-1930s kitchen, climb aboard a vintage London bus, and dress up in costume from the past!

It was an exciting weekend for the Museum & Heritage Centre team who filmed a history segment for BBC Antiques Roadshow at Valentines Mansion on Sunday! Our Collections Officer spoke to Fiona Bruce about the history of Ilford Limited and showed some of the objects and archives from our collection.

Holy cow! We missed World Milk Day! 🐄🥛 Carts are being filled with milk churns ready for delivery in this photo of the Short Horn Dairy on Roden Street, Ilford, taken around 1887.

On your marks! This race marked the official re-opening of Cricklefields Athletic Ground in Ilford following the Second World War, on this day in 1950 🏃‍♂️

Need a breather from the heat outside? Top tip – Redbridge Museum is nice and cool, plus our families trail is back for the half-term! Open until 5pm today 😎