Museum Makers Choice – Marjorie Duff
In the collection are eleven diaries that belonged to Marjorie Duff, who was born in 1908 and died in 1995. Her father was Cyprian Thomas Rust, Vicar of Frodingham. She lived with her father, mother, sister and brother in Frodingham Vicarage, the building which North Lincolnshire Museum now occupies.
Marjorie’s diaries cover the period 1926 to 1936. The first entry is for Friday 1 January 1926. Marjorie records that she went to a ball in Lincoln and enjoyed “a jolly good supper, including champagne.”
We have lots of information about Marjorie’s life, both from the diaries and other sources such as photographs and the newspaper articles about her wedding in 1934. However, there are lots of gaps, including days in the later diaries after her wedding which were left blank.
In this film Museum Maker Sam Lidell, takes a closer look at the diaries of Marjorie Duff and shares the art he has created in response to the blanks in Marjorie’s story. Sam has been researching the diaries as a volunteer on the National Heritage Lottery Fund project Documenting Northern Lincolnshire’s History.
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