Discussion Group: Conserving historic buildings in a changing world – 1887 to the present day
Wednesday 6th April, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Colin Johns will describe how attitudes in favour of protecting buildings have evolved over the last 100 + years and how this led in the UK to the introduction of the listing process, and later to the designation of conservation areas.
Discussion Group covers a wide range of...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: The Romans in the Bradford Hundred
Wednesday 2nd March, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Roy Canham and Sophie Hawke will discuss what we know of the Romans in the Bradford on Avon and the local area.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: Medieval Bradford south of the river
Wednesday 2nd December, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, we have not one speaker, but four! Roy Canham, Pam Slocombe, Ivor Slocombe and Gareth Slater will discuss Medieval Bradford south of the river.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: Little Chalfield – the other Chalfield Manor
Wednesday 4th November, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Rob Arkell will talk about the history of the manor as well as his archaeological findings.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce
Wednesday 7th October, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
We are very lucky to have Nancy R Wilson, who is visiting from the United States, to talk to us about the life of the pioneer female aviator, Mildred Mary Petre (1895-1990), better known by her married name of the Honourable Mrs Victor...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: 1766 – Revolution to Evolution, Francis Yerbury’s new cloth
Wednesday 2nd September, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Roy Berrett will tell the story of Bradford on Avon’s Yerbury Cloth.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: The Making of the Millennium Embroidery
Wednesday 1st July, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Gill Winfield will tell the story of the making of the Millennium Embroidery.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: Saxon Bath: a healthy place to live?
Wednesday 3rd June, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
In this session, Laura Mountford will lead us through the process of interpretation of human remains to answer the question ‘Saxon Bath: a healthy place to live?‘.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: Trowbridge: a most unlikely County Town
Wednesday 1st April, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
This session, led by Ivor Slocombe, will tell the story of Trowbridge and how it came to be the county town of Wiltshire.
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...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: The Castles of the Norman Conquest
Wednesday 4th March, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
This session, led by Brian Davison, will focus on the castles of the Norman Conquest – in particular what the Normans were up to in Normandy in the ten years or so before the Conquest and in the ten years or so after 1066. A very narrow span of years, but a lot happened in those years!
Brian is a former...
Read MoreLecture: The Buildings of Bradford
Wednesday 18th March, 7:30pm, St Margaret’s Hall
Architectural historian Julian Orbach, who recently moved to live in Bradford on Avon, is revising the Pevsner Architectural Guides, and is currently working on the Wiltshire volume. He has kindly agreed to give a talk for the museum on the buildings of...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: A History of the Church Bells of Bradford on Avon
Wednesday 4th February, 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room
Our first Discussion Group session of 2015 is on the church bells of Bradford on Avon and is led by two authorities on the subject: Anne Willis and David Godwin, who are both local bell ringers.
Discussion Group covers a wide range of subjects, and if you haven’t been along to a session...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: A review of this year’s Community Digs
Wednesday 5th November, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 3rd December at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Roy Canham will be examining the results of both Community Digs (April and August) and considering future action.
These Museum Discussion Group sessions are FREE to...
Read MoreLidar exhibition moves to Chippenham
. The Museum’s exhibition about the Ancient Landscapes of Bradford project is now on display at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.
The exhibition “A land through time” was held at Bradford on Avon Museum in November last year. Now it can be seen as a temporary exhibition in the entrance foyer of...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: The Cradle of English Geology
Wednesday 5th November, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 5th November at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where our Honorary Curator, and former Geology Curator at Bristol City Museum, Roger Clark, will be leading the session.
These Museum Discussion Group sessions are FREE to...
Read MoreDiscussion Group: Roots, Routes
Sue Maude: Modern Artist, Ancient Landscape, a personal view
Wednesday 1st October, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 1st October at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Sue Maude will be leading the...
Read MoreBeau Street Hoard Roadshow
Saturday 18th October 10:30 am – 3:00 pm, at Bradford on Avon Museum
Come and discover the Beau Street Hoard, a unique find of 17,577 silver Roman coins uncovered by archaeologists in Beau Street, Bath.
Learn about the Hoard and its discovery
Handle coins from the...
Read MoreThe Community Dig
Monday 11th – Sunday 24th August, Hen Field and Victory Field
The defensive bank showing both side of field boundary wall (click the image to see a larger version)
We are off again! Our dig in April produced a surprising result. A slight bank on the edge of the paddock east of the tithe barn...
Read MoreExhibition: Bradford At War, 1914-18
Monday 4th – Monday 25th August, in the Library Meeting Room
Bradford on Avon Museum’s exhibition commemorating the First World War, will be focused on the themes: The Eve of War, The Front, The Home Front, and Twin Towns.
The exhibition will include photographs and WWI objects, as well as...
Read MoreThe Museum’s Millennium Embroidery on show in Bath & Bradford
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Bradford on Avon Museum’s Millennium Embroidery is going to be on display at the Friends Meeting House in York Street, Bath from 2nd until 16th August, Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 4pm.
It will join there some of the panels of the famous Quaker Tapestry, other panels of which will be displayed in Bath Abbey for...
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