Discussion Group: Little Chalfield – the other Chalfield Manor

Bradford on Avon Museum

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...

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Discussion Group: The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce

The Hon. 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 Bruce.

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Discussion 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...

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Discussion Group: The Making of the Millennium Embroidery

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...

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Discussion Group: Saxon Bath: a healthy place to live?

Saxon Bath

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.

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Discussion Group: Trowbridge: a most unlikely County Town

County Hall

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.

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Discussion Group: The Castles of the Norman Conquest

Equestrian statue of William the Conqueror in his birthplace, Falaise

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...

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Lecture: The Buildings of Bradford

The Saxon Church of St Laurence in Bradford, built in around the millennium year 1001.

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...

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Discussion Group: A History of the Church Bells of Bradford on Avon

Holy Trinity Church

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.

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Discussion Group: A review of this year’s Community Digs

Trench 4 - 16th August 2014

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.

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Lidar exhibition moves to Chippenham

Lidar 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...

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Discussion Group: The Cradle of English Geology

A piece of pisolite from old quarries at Avoncliff, Westwood

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.

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Discussion Group: Roots, Routes

Abstract Map of Bradford Hundred by Sue Maude

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 session.

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Beau Street Hoard Roadshow

Beau Street Hoard

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 Hoard

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The Community Dig

The defensive bank showing both sides of field boundary wall

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 turned out to be some kind of defensive...

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Exhibition: Bradford At War, 1914-18

A.H. Baker (seated centre), Fitzmaurice teacher

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 information panels describing...

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The Museum’s Millennium Embroidery on show in Bath & Bradford

The 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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Discussion Group: Anglo-Saxon Bradford on Avon – the beginning of History!

Saxon Church

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

The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 2nd July at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Martyn Whittock will be leading the session, ‘Anglo-Saxon Bradford on Avon – the beginning of History!’

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Discussion Group: Results from the Archaeological Dig near the Tithe Barn

Trench 1

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

The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 4th June at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Roy Canham will be leading the session, reporting on the results of our Community Dig near the Tithe Barn earlier this year, with some additional background on some relevant Wiltshire...

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Exhibition: Peter Maundrell’s Bradford

Abbey Mill by Peter Maundrell

. Bradford on Avon Museum has mounted an exhibition of black and white photographs of subjects taken in and around Bradford from the last three decades of the 20th century.

They are the work of Peter Maundrell, a keen  amateur photographer who was born in Bradford in 1932 and has lived here all his life. He was joint-author, with...

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