Life in Beckworth » Den Hawkchurch http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth Bringing you the (almost) everyday comings and goings of the residents of Beckworth, a typical English market town. Informing you about their lives through the mediums of words, images, an interactive map and stereophonic sound recordings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 We Need Your Banana Stories http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/den-hawkchurch/we-need-your-banana-stories/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/den-hawkchurch/we-need-your-banana-stories/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:57:38 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=2217 Continue reading →]]> Good afternoon. Beckworth’s Famous Banana Museum will be 150 years old next March and we are planning to celebrate with an exhibition (to be opened by three-times-a-day banana fan Sir Alex Ferguson) featuring working-class people’s banana anecdotes. They can be happy, sad, harrowing, deeply-distressing, or even tragic experiences, as long as they are probably true and happened to you (or someone you vaguely know). Maybe you were on the Titanic eating a banana when it sank, survived a plane crash by living off bananas for 18 long months (like Robinson Crusoe famously did in that novel Huckleberry Finn) or perhaps attended a funeral dressed in a banana costume. If you have a life changing disfigurement involving our beloved bent yellow fruit then please let us know and you could be featured in the exhibition. Anyone who does will get a day’s free bananas! So we look forward to seeing your narratives. Thanks Den Hawkchurch. Archivist. Beckworth Banana Museum

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(Above) Banana’s similar to the one’s on show at the Banana Museum
(Size and quantity may vary)

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