00:00Hi, I'm Frida Barty. I've been a volunteer at Horsforth Museum for about eight years,
00:05and my interest in family history, doing people's ancestries, brought me to the museum in the first
00:11place. And I absolutely love volunteering for the museum. It's so interesting, and really it's made
00:18my retirement a lot better than it would have been. So we're here near Horsforth Town Street
00:25on what we call the green, and this is our museum. It started the idea as a result of a
00:33group called
00:34the Horsforth Historical Society, that was formed by a group of individuals in 1983. The museum was
00:44started in 1988, just in one room. It has now encompassed the whole of this building. We have
00:55Horsforth of a little girl in 1891. We also, the Aubreyshire Corvette during World War II,
01:05the people of Horsforth sponsored it, and I think we got the most money in Yorkshire,
01:11sponsor money. But it wasn't until about 60 or 70 years later that we knew what we'd sponsored,
01:18and it was the warship Aubreyshire that had been in the battle. And with the help of the Bulldog,
01:26sunk a German warship. And the Enigma files were taken from the submarine as it didn't sink. The
01:35Enigma files were taken out and obviously, you know, the rest is history because they helped to end the war.
01:41On Saturdays and Sundays, you can come and look round the display rooms. At the moment,
01:47we've got a rather saucy room of underwear from the past that might entertain most of our visitors.
01:56We wanted so much to have a collection of objects, maps, documents, photographs,
02:06archive of Horsforth, so that the next generation could learn all about its fantastic history.
02:15It was known as the largest village in England. It is pretty big and covers quite a few square miles,
02:24although it has got a village feel. We would love some new members to come to the museum to help
02:29us,
02:30people that might be retiring and wondering what they're going to do. I think anybody really,
02:35anybody good at DIY, archiving, anybody good on the computer. All the people you've seen in the
02:41museum today are volunteers. They do this because they so love Horsforth. We have school children coming
02:50in and really, and hopefully, the future is rosy for people of Horsforth.
02:59You didn't see.
02:59Yeah.
03:00I know there's a lot of people there, but there are no plans to
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