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Love Lancaster Judges' Lodgings FRIENDS OF LANCASTER JUDGES LODGINGS: Lancaster’s oldest town house- 3 stories in 1 building

26/05/2026

📜250 years next month, the Declaration of Independence was written in the soon to be "United States of America".

🌎At our Judges' Lodgings lecture on Friday 26 June, 12-1pm, find out what the hidden connection is between George Washington, the American flag and a small Lancashire village. Popular speaker Dr Colin Penny is back with a new talk to mark 250 years of the American Declaration of Independence. Uncover another unique Lancashire link across the Atlantic with this talk at Lancaster's oldest Town House.

🎟️Tickets are just £5 and include museum admission and tea or coffee and a biscuit. Spaces are limited so book your place today!

https://www6.apps.lancashire.gov.uk/w/webpage/event-details?eventid=2984401

21/04/2026

🦆World Curlew Day is celebrated today, 21 April to raise awareness and support conservation of curlews worldwide.

🦅The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted a pair of curlews hanging from the Judges' Lodgings Servant's Hall ceiling as part of our historic kitchen display. Thankfully, this is now a thing of the past with curlews now deemed a threatened species, but did you know until the 1940s it was fairly common to find curlews for sale in the butchers? They would have been treated similar to other game or wildfowl and be baked, braised or cooked in pies.

⛏️Archaeological digs at the Judges' Lodgings have revealed bird bones showing that our historic residents would have eaten a wide variety of waterfowl and waders like snipe, godwit and maybe even curlew.

🔭Today, if you'd like to spot curlews, head to nearby Morecambe Bay and its vast mudflats for a glimpse of curlews searching for food at low tide.

🔎See what else you can spot on a visit to the Judges' Lodgings- now open four days a week, Thursdays to Sundays 11AM-4PM

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14/04/2026

'My name is Mr. Wright but you shall call me Sir!'

Our principle guide Gregory, getting in touch with his inner Victorian schoolmaster as part of the Heritage Learning Lancashire team at the Judges' Lodgings today! 👨‍🎓

British Guild of Tourist Guides Lancashire Museums visit Lancashire Lancaster and Morecambe Bay Bay Tourism Association

12/04/2026

👪It's National Siblings Day! We thought we'd scour the Judges' Lodgings artworks for family groups and take a look into the Hulton portraits from our collections.

🎨William, Beatrice and Ann were the three children of Jessop and Mary Hulton. The Hultons were an ancient, well-established family in the area around Bolton and were heavily involved in Lancashire's justice system. William was born in 1717, Ann in 1718 and Beatrice in about 1722. William inherited the lands of Hulton Hall and the estates, whilst Ann and Beatrice married into other families of the gentry, Ann into the Winckley family of Preston and Beatrice into the Lister family of Gisburn(e). These paintings were probably done in the 1740s. If you look closely at the paintings of Beatrice (in blue) and Ann (in white) you will see they are the same body, just mirrored and with a different face and clothing.

💻To explore the Judges Lodgings' artworks online, head to: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/venue:judges-lodgings-lancaster-6207

🖼️Or even better, come and visit them yourself! We're now back open four days a week, Thursday to Sunday, 11am-4pm.
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