Volunteering at Bexley

This week I have been volunteering at the Bexley Heritage Trust, working at Hall Place and the museum's collection store, helping out with a collection location audit. So far we have mostly done costume accessories, with a range of interesting dolls hats - made in the 20th century for some exhibition, so not really collection pieces, jewellery, shoes, an actual proper tophat and other bits and bobs. We also have worked on some boxes of radio equipment with some interesting objects inside, an electrophorus, solar windmill and a small thermometer combined with a compass.

Each day I take a train from Tulse Hill to London Bridge and then another train out to Bexley. It is about a 15 minute walk from the train station with an overbridge over a motorway. But Hall Place is quite lovely and when you

finally see it after all that road it is quite a relief. The house and museum are free - so when you are ever down this way, best drop by for a visit.

I have been working with the collection management system Modes, another to add to the collection of collection management systems that I can now use.

Hopefully this volunteering will be another push into me getting some fabulous London museum job, hopefully soon.

On another note, the weather has been amazing, beautiful and sunny most days, albeit a little chilly. At one stage, due to the volcano, the sky was even clear of vapour trails, so it was just a large blue dome over London. I don't think that happens very often.

Last day tomorrow, but if I can, with my future job etc, fit in a day to help with the cataloguing then I will. Situation dependent. Lovely people so would be great to stay around for a while even if it is a mission on the train.