Museum Discussion Group – My Military Ancestors
Wednesday 2nd April, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 2nd April at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Jonathan Falconer will be leading the session on researching your military ancestors.
These Museum Discussion Group sessions are FREE to members. You don’t...
Read MoreMuseum Discussion Group: Researching Bradford’s Buildings – Fieldwork and History
Wednesday 12th March, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 12th March at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Pam Slocombe will be leading the session on Bradford’s buildings.
Please note that the March session will be on the second Wednesday of the month (12th...
Read MoreMuseum Discussion Group CHANGE: Field Name Research in the Bradford Hundred
Wednesday 5th February, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
Due to unforeseen circumstances we have a change of topic and speaker for our Discussion Group meeting on Wednesday 5th February, which will now be:
Wednesday 5th February 7:30pm, Library Meeting Room Field Name Research in the Bradford Hundred led by Rob Arkell
Rob has kindly agreed to step in at...
Read MoreExhibition: St Laurence School Year 7 Roman Villas
Wednesday 18th December – Saturday 4th January, in the Library Meeting Room
The exhibition will be open during Library hours on the following days: 18th -21st, 23rd, 27th -28th , and 30th December, and 2nd-4th January.
Once again, Bradford on Avon Museum is co-operating with St Laurence School to produce a short display of models of...
Read MoreMuseum Discussion Group: Ancient Landscapes – The Results
Wednesday 4th December, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The next meeting of the Museum Discussion Group will be held on Wednesday 4th December at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room, where Roy Canham will be discussing the results of our Heritage Lottery funded ‘Ancient Landscapes of the Bradford Hundred‘ project.
Wine and mince...
Read MoreExhibition – A Land Through Time
Saturday 23rd November – Monday 2nd December, Bradford on Avon Library Meeting Room, during Library / Museum opening hours
N.B. This exhibition will now be opening at 12pm on Saturday 23rd November.
Over the course of the past year we have studied and recorded traces of the prehistoric, Romano-British , and medieval landscape over an area...
Read MoreMuseum Discussion Group – An Introduction to Geophysics
Wednesday 6th November, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
Our next Museum Discussion Group session is on “An Introduction to Geophysics” and will be led by Sophie Hawke.
These Museum Discussion Group sessions are FREE to members. You don’t need to book or attend all the sessions – just turn up.
Future...
Read MoreMuseum Discussion Group – Documents Relating to the Manor of Bradford
Wednesday 2nd October, 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room
The second of our Museum Discussion Group sessions is on “Documents Relating to the Manor of Bradford” and will be led by Ivor Slocombe. These Museum Discussion Group sessions are FREE to members. Please note that non-members can attend one session before being asked to join. If...
Read MoreNEW – Museum Discussion Group
From September, we are starting up a new Museum group for Members. The Discussion Group will be held on the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm in the Library Meeting Room. These informal sessions are FREE to Members and will cover a broad range of topics, with a different speaker introducing the theme each month.
Here are the topics for the first four months:
Wednesday...
Read MoreMillennium Embroidery at Fringe Festival
The Museum’s Bradford on Avon Millennium Embroidery will be displayed as part of the Bradford Fringe Festival. The twelve panels depict episodes in each of the centuries between the two Millennium Years of 1001 and 2001 and were sewn by hand by Bradford people, based on paintings by the late Jeanne Walpole. It can be seen for the period of 1st to...
Read MoreExhibition: 1950s Shops
Bradford on Avon’s Market Street in the early 1950s (Neil Mattingley, freshford.com) Daily dairy deliveries in Bradford on Avon (P45238: Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre) Click on the photos above to view larger versions
Monday 29th July to Saturday 31st August at the Fat Fowl.
The...
Read MoreMuseum Trip to Dorset
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New date for your diary – Saturday 14th September 2013.
The June outing for members of the Museum Society has been postponed, and will now be taking place on 14th September instead.
We will visit the Priest’s House Museum in Wimborne Minster, a...
Read MoreBradford on Avon Museum Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Conference
Saturday 6th July, 2-5pm at the Lecture Theatre, St Laurence School, Bradford on Avon
The following presentations will be given:
Digging up Bradford on Avon – problems and possibilities: Roy Canham. Wild West frontier town – Bradford in the politics of Wessex and Mercia: Martyn Whittock. Troubled times – Edward, Ethelred and... Read MorePublic Talk: Ancient Landscapes of the Bradford Hundred
Wednesday 24th April, 7:30pm at Bradford on Avon Library
A public talk by Roy Canham, former County Archaeologist for Wiltshire, and leader of the Museum’s exciting new project ‘Ancient Landscapes of the Bradford Hundred’.
Tickets are £2.00 and can be purchased on the door.
Find out more about the project by reading...
Read MoreExhibition: A Life on Wheels
EXHIBITION NOW RELOCATED TO ST LAURENCE SCHOOL FOYER UNTIL 8th FEBRUARY
Following the recent death of Alex Moulton, the inventor and developer of the Moulton bicycle, Bradford on Avon Museum has mounted a display about his life.
It draws on the material from the exhibition that was jointly staged by the Museum, Preservation Trust and Town...
Read MoreTALK: The Saxon Church in Bradford on Avon
Tuesday 15th January, 7:30pm at Holy Trinity Church
If you already have a ticket for the November talk which was cancelled due to the flooding, then your ticket is STILL VALID for the new date, so please do come along! Please note the change of venue.
David Hinton, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton is the author...
Read MoreEXHIBITION: The Saxon Church in Bradford on Avon
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Monday 12th – Friday 30th November, Bradford on Avon Library Foyer
The Museum will be running an exhibition in the Library Foyer to accompany the talk by renowned archaeologist Professor David Hinton (Thursday 22nd November at the United Reformed Church, St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on...
Read MoreExhibition: The Future of the Past
Friday 20th – Monday 30th April, Library Meeting Room
Bradford on Avon Museum represents a large area known historically as the Bradford Hundred, and this area still has huge untapped potential in terms of its history and archaeology, and in terms of the many local people who have investigated its past and have knowledge to share.
However, the current...
Read MoreExhibition: Jubilee!
Monday 28th May – Sunday 17th June, Library Foyer
We are currently planning an exhibition featuring photographs, illustrations and newspaper articles from previous jubilees. If you have any jubilee-related photographs that we could copy for the museum, please contact Roy Canham (Museum Trustee) at roycanham@btinternet.com or on 07807...
Read MoreExhibition: 21st birthday
Saturday 3rd October – Friday 28th October 2011, Library Meeting Room
Bradford on Avon Museum celebrates its 21st birthday this year. To mark the occasion, an exhibition has been mounted in the Museum and in the Library Meeting Room (upstairs at Bradford on Avon Library).
Following contributions from the public at the Saturday Market in Westbury Gardens...
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