2014 Christmas Lunch

3rd December 2014

Every December, David Hunt shows his appreciation to the volunteers of the museum by treating them to a Christmas meal.  This year the event took place at the Leyland Golf Club.  The Mayor, Councillor Graham Walton was also in attendance and welcomed everyone.

Photographs courtesy of David Ashmore 

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Gina Campbel at Samlesbury Hall

23rd November

Gina Campbell, daughter of Donald Campbell CBE, British speed record breaker and the Bluebird K7 driver visited  Samlesbury Hall this Sunday to plant a tree and to commemorate 60 years since the Bluebird was built.

Representatives of the South Ribble Museum and Exhibition Centre were there to record the event. The Bluebird craft was a replica as the original is currently undergoing renovation.

Visit the Samlesbury Hall website for more information about this remarkable building.

www.samlesburyhall.co.uk

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Bluebird K7

Gina Campbell planting the tree

Gina Campbell with Sharan Jones, Curator of Samlesbury Hall
and Stephen Whalley, the event organiser