Bradford & District | Archive | 1998 | October | 28
From the Telegraph & Argus, first published Wednesday 28th Oct 1998.
A heritage museum which specialises in preserving ancient railway carriages has some of the best facilities for disabled people in the country.
The Vintage Carriages Trust, based at Ingrow next to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, has been awarded the Adapt museum award.
Museum staff were presented with an engraved glass commemorative plaque and a cheque for £2,500 at a ceremony.
Judges were impressed by the trust's system for helping people with hearing difficulties, which involves a looped listening facility around the museum.
It also produces a guide book in Braille and an audio tape, and the museum has a wheelchair lift onto a walkway and interpretation boards set at eye-level for wheelchair users.
Curator Jackie Cope said: "We are delighted and proud because we were in competition with museums throughout the country. The money must be spent on financing more facilities and we are considering installing a system to help people with reading difficulties."
Adapt - Access for Disabled people to Arts Premises Today - is a Scottish charity. The judging panel was chaired by Lord Snowdon.
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