UU PUM: 7 DAYS at SWINDON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

WEDNESDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2011

THE ALTON BARNES PHOTO MUSEUM

Ray Pope started his photo museum of family and village photographs at Alton Barnes in the early 1970s, it is open all day every day of the year.

Rays Dad when he was in the Wiltshire Yeomonary
below a photo of Alron BSrnes men serving in the
Wiltshire Regiment during the Great War.
Alongside the story of the Alton Barnes white horse.

The biscuit tin where Ray
keeps a lot of
his photos which are
spread about
the museum case.

Many thanks to Ray Pope and cousin Roger for their time and loan of artefacts.

THURSDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2011

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING

Day 2 was for the visit of Lost Property courtesy of Thamesdown Transport. If you missed out watch the video and find out that all is not what it seems. Many thanks to Clare King, archaeologist from The Swindon and Wiltshire History Centre.

The lost property was on full display along with a selection of Post It notes left by visitors who referred to something they had lost. If you want to see more of these go to main page then the LOST section to the right. If you want to contribute email your Post It Note to Wiltshire Pop UP.

FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2011

New in Wiltshire

Day 3 saw the visit of someone new to Wiltshire and disturbed by the growth in the water pipes. Bea Haines is an artist from London, recent artist in residence at Marlborough College and a collector of unlikely objects such as used chewing gum. The exhibition showed her collection of limescale and some furred up heating elements.

SATURDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2011

SIMON AND THE ROBOTS

On Day 4 Simon Webb from The Swindon Museum of Computing loaned his collection of robots and there was a real frenzy when they all started singing and dancing.

WEDNESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2011

REGENTS CIRCUS

Artist Meryl Ainslie had been course leader at Swindon College and seeing that the building was to be redeveloped wanted to go back and explore. It was much more than a nostalgia kick for her, as she holds not only the listed Victorian Technical College in high regard but also it's 1960s neighbour that is soon to be pulled down. In appreciation of the site she took photographs, made delicate wax casts of the lesser seen details and charcoal rubbing of the surfaces.
In the accompanying split screen video I made there is a tour and commentary from an archaeologist plus previous users of the building that contrasts with the sound of everyday Swindon and the brand new library opposite.

The video is in 2 parts.

THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2011

JACKDAWS, JEFFERIES AND COATE

Thanks to the Richard Jefferies Museum and especially Jean Saunders for video commentary and for letting Ian Hamson clean the chimney who then came up with the idea of doing something with the nesting material he found there.

Wiltshire Pop Up is anxious that everyone should read the passage from 'My Old Village' bearing in mind what developers and planners have been trying to do with Coate over the years.