AAG Winter Social

I try not to write too much about my job here, but I had a really interesting day on Thursday last week. The Aspire Architects Group had a team-building away-day doing something completely different... We did a day of voluntary work at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums - a regular haunt for us when when the kids visit The Barn. We were at the Coalbrookdale site...

After an introductory talk, we set to work moving and repacking the museums' (Victorian) costume collection. While one team built new shelves and moved the boxes around, the rest of us learnt how to pack things to preserve them and were set to work. Here's my team with one of our first items - a ladies jacket...

We were a bit disappointed not to have any corsets to do, but we did get a pile of linen, a top hat and trilby alleged to have been owned by Captain Webb - a local man, famous for being the first person to swim the English Channel, some furs, tablecloths and a couple of banners for local Wesleyan Sunday Schools.

Well it was certainly a change from our usual line of work! And there was some satisfaction in being told we had done in one day what would otherwise have taken the staff about 18 months to complete. But then it was off with the gloves...

...to go and explore Enginuity...

... and then to enjoy a celebratory hog roast...

...at, and after which, copious amounts of beer were drunk. And I'm not going to say anything about the member of the team who managed to lock himslef out of his hotel room in the middle of the night wearing... no I really mustn't say.

You can see some more of my photos of the day here on Flickr.