Discussion Group: List of Talks for 2019

Bradford on Avon Museum

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to a session yet, do try it out.

The meetings take place on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, and are FREE to members (please remember to bring along your Museum membership card!).  Non-members can attend one session before being asked to join.  If you...

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Discussion Group: The Current Work of the Museum Research Group

Horton House dovecote

Wednesday 6th March, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

This session will be led by Roy Canham who will be giving us an update on the Current Work of the Museum Research Group.  As you may know, Research Group meets on Monday mornings at our premises in Holt, and for the past few years a lot of the...

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Museum AGM 2019

Bradford on Avon Museum

The Museum’s Annual General Meeting for 2019 will take place on Thursday 14th March at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room.  All are welcome.

Links to the Minutes of the 2018 AGM and to the Agenda for the 2019 AGM are given below:

Minutes of the Museum Society AGM 2018 Agenda of the Museum Society AGM...

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Discussion Group: Archives of the Moulton Family of The Hall, Bradford on Avon

Jess Smith and Sarah Howard at The Hall July 2018

Wednesday 6th February, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In our first Discussion Group session of 2019, Claire Skinner, Principal Archivist at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre will be talking about the archives of the Moulton Family following the archive survey undertaken by Claire and other...

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Discussion Group: Local History Question Time

Bradford on Avon Museum

Wednesday 5th December, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

Our December Discussion Group session will be a bit different to the usual format, and a bit special, because we have a panel of four experts ready to answer all of your local history questions!

Our illustrious panel members are:

Roy Canham, former Country Archaeologist for Wiltshire Roger Clark,...

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Discussion Group: Rowley – Bradford’s Lost Medieval Village

Rowley - Bradford's lost medieval village

Wednesday 7th November, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In our next Discussion Group session, Rob Arkell will be taking a look at the history of the village and tithing of Rowley and the possible reasons for its decline which include the Black Death, loss of the church, and the expansion of Farleigh Hungerford Castle’s deer park.  Rob has presented every year...

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Autumn Event 2018: A Night with Phil Harding

Phil Harding

Bradford on Avon Museum invites you to ‘A Night with Phil’.

Join us for q & a night with Phil Harding, archaeologist and Time Team regular. Phil will be answering questions from former Wiltshire County Archaeologist, Roy Canham and our audience on Saturday, 27 October 2018 at...

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Discussion Group: The diaries of Beth Hignell, ‘It makes you spit!’

Wednesday 3rd October, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In our next Discussion Group session, Colin Johns will be talking about the diaries of Beth Hignell, which he has studied.  Elizabeth (Beth) Hignell came to Bradford on Avon in the early 1940’s, a refugee from the bombing in Bristol, and for the rest of her life lived at 7 St Margarets Street. ...

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Discussion Group – St Laurence School and its Roman villa: one step beyond

Mosaic central motif

Wednesday 5th September, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Sophie Hawke will be discussing the discovery of the roman villa site, the School’s involvement and her recent geophysical survey work.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you...

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Exhibition: What we bought in the 1950s and 60s

Bradford on Avon’s Market Street in the early 1950s (P45238: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre)

Wednesday 1st August until Friday 31st August.

Bradford on Avon Museum has gone shopping crazy!  We have another exhibition on shops showing what housewives were buying in the 1950s and 60s.

As an extension to our current shops exhibition – Brylcreem and Broken Biscuits –  in every shop in the town, the Museum is...

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Brylcreem and Broken Biscuits Exhibition

Bradford on Avon’s Market Street in the early 1950s (P45238: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre)

Bradford on Avon Museum’s summer exhibition, Brylcreem and Broken  Biscuits, shows what the shops of Bradford looked like in the 1950s   Saturday 21st July until Sunday 2nd September   1950s Britain was very different from the country we know now.     In Bradford as in every other town people shopped locally and had a huge variety of goods...

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Discussion Group: The History Of Our Station In Pictures

Bradford on Avon Railway Station

Wednesday 4th July, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Peter Mann will be taking us through the history of Bradford on Avon Railway Station in picture, and also telling us about the Footbridge Canopy Project.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you...

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Discussion Group: Bradford’s Shops in the 1950s

Bradford on Avon’s Market Street in the early 1950s (P45238: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre)

Wednesday 6th June, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Stephanie Laslett, author of “Brylcreem and Broken Biscuits”, will be leading the discussion about Bradford on Avon’s shops in the 1950s.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you...

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Discussion Group: The Saxons in Wiltshire

Collingbourne Ducis skeleton

Wednesday 2nd May, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Roy Canham, former County Archaeologist for Wiltshire and leader of the Museum’s Research Group, will be leading the discussion about the Saxons in Wiltshire.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and...

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Discussion Group: Industrial & Provident – Bradford on Avon Co-op Society

Co-op

Wednesday 4th April, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Roger Clark, our Hon. Curator, will be talking about the Bradford on Avon Industrial & Provident Society Ltd. – i.e. Bradford’s Co-op society.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to...

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Millennium Embroidery on display

Millennium Embroidery

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Bradford on Avon Museum’s Millennium Embroidery will be on show in the Library Gallery/Meeting Room from Wednesday 28th March to Saturday 28th April during Library opening hours and on Sundays and Easter Monday 2-4pm when the Museum is open. Admission is free.

The Embroidery...

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Discussion Group: Bradford’s Turnpike Roads, Tollhouses and Milestones

Westwood turnpike

Wednesday 7th March, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room

In this Discussion Group session, Ivor Slocombe will be talking about Bradford’s Turnpike Roads, Tollhouses and Milestones.  Please do join us to find out more!

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to a session yet, do...

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Discussion Group – What’s in your garden?

Budbury Excavation 2010

Wednesday 7th February,  7:30pm, Library Meeting Room

In the first Discussion Group session of 2018, Jane Mann, aided by Gill Winfield and Roger Clark, will be discussing the sorts of things you might find in your garden…and we don’t mean flowers!  If you live in or around Bradford on Avon,...

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Discussion Group – List of Talks for 2018

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Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to a session yet, do try it out.

The meetings take place on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, and are FREE to members (please remember to bring along your new, blue membership card!).  Non-members can attend one session before being asked to join.  If...

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Discussion Group: Solsbury Hill Geophysics and Archaeology Survey

Little Solsbury

Wednesday 6th December,  7:30pm, Library Meeting Room

In December’s Discussion Group, Rick Buettner will be talking about the Solsbury Hill Geophysics and Archaeology Survey which he has been involved in.

Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to a session yet, do try it out.

The meetings take place...

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