Bradford on Avon Museum Publications

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Bradford on Avon Museum publishes a series of booklets about subjects that relate to the heritage of the Town and the Hundred of Bradford and to the Museum’s collection. The list grows steadily and new titles appear frequently.
Copies are available from the Museum, from the Library, Ex Libris Bookshop and from the Tourist Information Centre.
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The first in the Museum’s series of booklets is, appropriately, about the chemist shop, the preservation of which provided the stimulus for founding the Museum.

“The Christopher Pharmacy”, by Ivor Slocombe and Roger Clark, outlines the history of the chemist shop and gives information about some of its contents and how the shop functioned.

£2.00

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Our second booklet- “Lost Pubs of Bradford on Avon, a walker’s guide” by Roger Clark, the Honorary Curator- is a guided trail around the town looking at the many places where pints are no longer pulled. It is illustrated with old and new colour photographs and a map.

£2.50

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Bradford on Avon printers and town directories is the work of Roger Jones, who as the publisher Ex Libris Press has himself had plenty of experience of the printing industry. He gives a history of some of Bradford’s printers, illustrated by examples of their work, drawn from some of the town directories they produced.

£2.50

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The booklet Abbey Mill gives a history, illustrated with many photographs, both historic and full-colour new ones, of the the factories that made up Abbey and Church Street Mills through their three careers as woollen mills, rubber factories and residential flats. The author, David Gazard, is a resident of the complex.

£2.50

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The next booklet is about Bradford’s Saxon Church. It has been written by David Hinton, who is Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University and is the author of several books on the medieval period. He carried out an excavation at the church which established that there had been a room beneath the site of the southern porticus. He describes the building in detail and discusses its age and purpose.

The booklet is beautifully illustrated, including some of the drawings that were made by the Scottish architect James Irvine in the 1860s, before the building was restored.

£2.50

 

A booklet about The Hall, an ancient mansion in Bradford, is yet another Museum publication, which has been produced in a slightly larger format with Ex Libris Press. It gives a detailed history of the house and its owners, with beautiful illustrations.

£3.00

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The Museum’s very first publication, before the current series, was a booklet about our Millennium Embroidery Project. It gives background information and an illustration and description of each of the 12 panels that were based on paintings by the late Jeanne Walpole.

£3.00

A series of postcards based on some of the Millennium Embroidery panels has almost sold out.

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The Museum has close associations with two substantial books about the casualties from Bradford and surrounding villages in the two World Wars of the 20th century. “Names in Stone” 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 by local historian Jonathon Falconer are full of biographical detail and are on sale in the Museum, which has already received a donation from profits on sales.