202020 Slough – online exhibition
In partnership with Slough Libraries and Culture Service and supported by Arts Council England, 202020 is an ambitious and wide-reaching project that is collection, engagement and artist led. Creatively & culturally diverse Slough artists are selecting 20 widely differing items from our Collection, to engage with participant residents to co-create responses to the item.
202020 Slough is involving artists from the town working with residents and community groups to co-create artwork inspired by our Collection. Find out more about the collection items, the process and the resulting artwork by clicking the images in this online exhibition.
Lydia Simmons Mayoral Robe
About the object Slough made history by electing the country's first black female mayor in 1984 and Slough Museum hold her Mayoral Robe in our collection. Lydia Simmons was born in Monserrat, a tiny island in the West Indies. Her cousin, Beresford Alleyne was at one...
Made in Slough Radios
About the object Slough Museum hold several radios in our collection and a selection of these were used as inspiration for 202020 Slough. These acquisitions are in part due to the number of Slough manufacturers of radios on Slough Trading Estate over the years. This...
The Adelphi Slough cinema tickets
About the object Built for and opened as an independent cinema by a company named Slough Playhouse Ltd, The Adelphi opened in February 1930. Designed by noted cinema architect Eric Norman Bailey from nearby Maidenhead, there was a large stage, a Christie 3Manual/8Rank...
Diya lamps
About the object The Diwali lamp is also known as the diya. Diya is the Sanskrit word for lamp. Diya lamps are often used in Hindu worship, but are widely recognised during the Diwali festival, the festival of lights celebrated every year in autumn on the brightest...
Women’s Land Army Uniform
About the object The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was created in 1917 to help farmers cope with the shortage of male labour as a result of the First World War. It was brought back into action for the Second World War, at first as voluntary service and then as a form of...
Victoria Golden Jubilee Arch Slough Train Station
About the object There are photographs of three Slough Golden Jubilee Arches in Slough Museum Collection, and it appears there were similar Arches constructed in other towns. This photograph is from 1887 and shows the Victoria Golden Jubilee Arch which was located...
Victorian decorative fireplace tile
About the object The tile is from the fireplace of Observatory House – the only object in Slough Museum’s Collection from the interior of this now demolished building, once on the corner of Windsor Road/Herschel Street in Slough. Slough Museum acquired it into the...
St Paul’s Brownie Pack c1961
About the object We know very little about this Brownie photograph (1985.025.051), apart from a note on the reverse which indicates this Pack were based at St Paul’s Church on the Stoke Road in Slough during the early 1960s. It looks as though they are standing around...