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  • Professional Exchange: Visitor Services Knowledge Circle

    Applications for the Visitor Services Knowledge Circle 2018 close at 5 pm on Wednesday 28th November. Have you applied?

    This fantastic opportunity which is fully funded to include travel and accommodation, gives two BCLM colleagues, in a visitor facing role, the chance to spend 5 days with one of our partner Museums which include The British Museum, National Trust and Leeds Museums to name a few.  The aim of the programme is to enable colleagues to gain knowledge and insight which they can bring back and apply to their role.

    Interested? You can apply by filling out an application form and sending it to Lucy Bennett, Head of Human Resource Development. Find out more on the Intranet at Documents/Useful Contacts & Support/HR/Training & Development/Secondments.

  • Change in payslip system

    We have been advised by our external payroll provider, CK Chartered Accountants that they are gradually transferring their clients to a new e-payslip portal.

    The new portal is designed to enhance security, ensure compliance with GDPR and be more user-friendly. Other CK clients have been using the portal for several months and the Museum is now required to start using the new portal.

    This will affect all staff – those of you who currently receive e-payslips and those who have paper payslips. With the new portal there is no longer the facility for CK to provide paper payslips. (There is an option in the portal to allow staff to print their own individual payslips for those that want to keep a paper copy).

    All staff members will need to provide an email address to receive an email invitation to access the portal. (For individuals who already receive an e-payslip through the existing system, that email address will be used for the new portal).

    You will also get a user guide to assist you in the registration process and you will be able to set your own memorable username and password.

    Access to your payroll data will be through the internet, via desktop, tablet and smartphone devices with the ability to download and save as required.

    More information will be provided to staff through their team managers over the next couple of weeks.

  • Access the BCLM intranet from anywhere!

    Access the BCLM intranet from anywhere!

    From now on you can keep up to date with what’s going at the Museum wherever you are and whenever you want to.

    To access the intranet just go to http://pmm.d88.mywebsitetransfer.com in your internet browser and enter the password fishandchips

    N.B. If you’re on the museum network there is no password prompt.

  • BCLM: Forging Ahead – Woodside Library Call Out

    We’ll be launching our public call-out for memories of Woodside Library – one of the largest translocation projects within BCLM: Forging Ahead – on Wednesday 19 September. Do you have any personal stories or a family connection with the Library? Did you borrow there, study there, or dance there? If you do have anything you would like to share to help our interpretation of the library, please pop in and see the Collections team in the Rolfe Street offices.

     

    A bit about Woodside Library

    The library was opened in 1894 to serve the south west part of Dudley. The land for the library and Woodside Park were donated by the Earl of Dudley, who also offered help with the funds to build the library out of the takings from his fetes at Dudley Castle. As such the library, and the adjacent police-houses and fire station, were constructed with a covenant limiting it to public use only. The opening ceremony for this, and Netherton library, built at the same time, was on 24th July 1894. The Earl and Countess of Dudley, along with many local dignitaries, processed from Dudley Central Library, to Netherton, to Woodside. The building featured a Reading Room and Lending Library on the ground floor, and a Recreation Room and Retiring Room upstairs, and was intended for the benefit of the working people of the Woodside area. At the beginning, the library was “closed stack” – visitors had to request books from the librarian – but converted to open access in 1934.

    After World War Two, libraries began to modernise and Dudley libraries were at the forefront – they increased their book stocks by 15,000 a year, included paperbacks for the first time and gramophone records, mostly classical music and language learning tools. The upstairs rooms were used for a variety of clubs and societies, and dances hosted by local compere Horace Robinson. The building was refurbished in the early 1970s and operated until 2008.

    Why Woodside Library?

    The building is currently in very poor condition and because of the covenant, has proved very difficult to repurpose. We are therefore proud to be able to salvage this beautiful building and give it a new lease of life. Woodside Library also enables us to continue stories of education and children’s lives, social life and the role of local authorities in everyday life in the Black Country. It will complement some of the other buildings by showing civic life in the post-war period, and provide an architecturally impressive sight in the midst of the new development.

  • Filming Assistants wanted

    We’re looking to increase our pool of Casual Filming Assistants. The positions will cover periods of filming at the Museum on a ad hoc basis.

    If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, please submit a cover letter detailing why you would like to be a Filming Assistant and why you are right for this role.

    The full job description can be found on the Vacancies page of the intranet.

    Cover letters should be submitted to HR by hand or by emailing [email protected] by the closing date of Fri 7 September at 5pm. 

    Interviews will take place the 2nd or 3rd week of September

  • Change in staff rostering system

    As a result of the implementation of GDPR legislation the owners of WhentoWork, the Museum’s staff rostering system, have decided to withdraw WhentoWork from the European market. This means we will not be able to use it after 30 September 2018.

    Since we were informed of the withdrawal of WhentoWork we have been working hard to find a suitable replacement which meets our needs. After trialling a number of products, the preferred system of the user group was a product called Planday and this is the system that will be implemented.

    The staffing rosters for September and October will be generated on both WhentoWork and Planday. They will be accessible on WhentoWork up to 30 September. Staff will be given access to Planday during September and pop-in training sessions will be put on for staff during week commencing 24 September.  Planday is accessible both via the web and a downloadable application for mobile phones. More information will be provided to staff through team managers over the next few weeks.

  • BCLM: Forging Ahead – Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre

    To coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the NHS, we’ll be launching our public call-out for memories of Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre tomorrow (18th July). Do you have any personal stories or family connection with the Centre? Were you taken as a child and dosed with cod liver oil? If you do have anything you would like to share to help in our re-creation of the shop, please pop in and see the Collections team in the Rolfe Street offices.

    A bit about Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre

    This centre was opened in 1928 to serve the Penn Fields area of Wolverhampton. It was designed as somewhere for new and expectant mothers to meet, learn about their and their babies’ health, and have their children fed, weighed and vaccinated. Twenty years later, the Centre became part of the new National Health Service. Visitors to Lea Road in the 1950s and 1960s would have found a busy environment, overseen by staff and volunteers. The main hall was a waiting room, but doubled up as a venue for ante-natal and “mothercraft” classes, baby clothes sales, and as a social gathering for new mothers – always with a fresh cup of tea in hand. Worried new mums could receive advice on anything from birthing anaesthetics to family planning – though this was strictly for married women only. Babies were weighed and checked regularly, and vaccinated against a range of diseases. Outbreaks of measles, smallpox and polio still occurred from time to time, and diphtheria was a particular Black Country problem: at points during the 1950s, for example, Coseley was responsible for a third of all cases nationally! Most memorably, the centres also distributed welfare foods: vitamins, bottles of thick, sticky orange juice, tins of National Dried Milk, and the hated cod liver oil.

    Why Lea Road?

    We are rebuilding this centre to tell the story of the birth of the NHS; the influx in junior doctors from countries such as India and Pakistan during the 50s & 60s; the lives of young women and children in this period; and also to help in our understanding of public health in the present day.

  • BCLM: Forging Ahead – E. Minett

    We’ll be launching our public call-out for memories of Wednesbury-based E. Minett ladies’ clothes shop and haberdashery next week (commencing 18th June).

    Do you have any personal stories about the place to shop for Wednesbury’s most fashionable ladies in the 1950s? Did you, your family or friends go there to keep up with the latest trends in the 50s? Did you or anyone you know work there? If you do have anything you would like to share to help in our re-creation of the shop, please pop in and see the Collections team in the Rolfe Street offices.

    A bit about E. Minett

    Founded by Edith Dabbs Minett in the 1920s, E. Minett was known as the place to go for the best dressed ladies of Wednesbury.  Edith started the business in the 1920s in the front room of the family home in Pound Road before opening the shop at 83 Walsall Street.

    Minett’s was a family-run business. Edith’s husband, William, managed the shop’s accounts around the time of the birth of their daughter, Brenda. Brenda started working at the shop as a young girl, earning three pence a week by dusting boxes and assisting with other day-to-day tasks. She started working at Minett’s full-time when she left school and took over with her husband, John Greenhough, and ran the business until it ceased trading in 2006.

    Clothes for the shop were bought on mail order from trade catalogues or from trips to wholesalers in Birmingham.  Brenda prided herself on buying garments in advance for particular customers she had in mind and whom she knew would buy the item as soon as they saw what she had chosen for them.

    The shop operated a ‘20 Week Club’ which allowed customers to pay a 10% deposit for items, reserve them and pay the remainder over a twenty-week period.  The increasing use of this type of credit in the 1950s was popular with British customers, as it made expensive items accessible and contributed to the post-war boom.

    Why E. Minett?

    We will be recreating the shop from 83 Walsall Street, which will be set in the late 1950s, to tell  the story of the post-war revolution in female fashion as well as the changing role of women in society and the 50s economic boom when people ‘never had it so good’.

     

  • Join in the fun at the next staff & volunteer Social – Tue 19 June, Folkes Park @ 5.30pm

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    We are looking for a volunteer to help with demonstrating activities to schools and general visitors at our sister Museum, The Locksmith’s House in Willenhall.