Millennium 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...
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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...
Read More‘Trench!’
As part of Bradford on Avon’s ‘Trench!’ exhibition, the museum hosted a superb World War I activity day in May at the library meeting room. Steve Williams, a WWI expert and his son, Gareth, gave talks throughout the day, dressed as WWI soldiers, with the aid of a mock up trench, willing volunteers and weapons including a Vickers gun. We had a steady flow of over 120 visitors- both...
Read MoreMuseum stall at the ‘Saturday Market’
The Museum will be at the Saturday Market in Westbury Gardens, Bradford on Avon from 10am – 4pm on Saturday 2nd July.
We will be displaying excerpts from our most successful exhibitions and asking you to help us recall events that have happened over the past 21 years within the Bradford Hundred as a lead up to the Museum’s 21st birthday this September.
Read MoreExhibition: WWI trench warfare
Saturday 28th May, 10am – 4pm
Following on from our talk on WWI archaeology (26th May), and the exhibition of St Laurence School students WWI trench models (6th – 27th May), we are delighted to announce that Steve Williams, an expert on WWI trench warfare will be giving an exhibition and presentations on Saturday 28th May.
Steve will give two talks, at 10.30am and...
Read MoreExhibition: St Laurence School students’ models of WWI trenches
Friday 6th May – Friday 27th May, Bradford on Avon Library Meeting Room
For two years we have exhibited the model Roman villas produced by St Laurence School students and we were excited to learn that, as part of curriculum activity, the school has a project focused on WWI in which models of trenches are also built.
We are planning to exhibit a selection of the trenches in...
Read MoreTalk: “From Wollongong to Wiltshire to Wallonia: Archaeology of the Great War”
Thursday 26th May, 7:30pm
Richard Osgood, MoD Archaeologist and ex-student of St Laurence School, will be talking about the archaeology of WWI. The talk will include a discussion on what a soldier of the Great War took into battle – all demonstrated through archaeology.
Tickets are available from 1st May 2011 at the Museum, Tourist Information Centre and Ex Libris...
Read MoreMuseum Society AGM
The Annual General Meeting of Bradford on Avon Museum Society will be held on Wednesday 6th April 2011 at 7.30pm in the Library Meeting Room.
All members are invited to attend and there will be refreshments and a chance to socialise after the business of the meeting has finished.
Read MoreSt Laurence School model Roman villas
For a second year the Museum is co-operating with St Laurence School to produce a short display of models of Roman villas. They have been made by the school’s Year 7 History Skills Project pupils, inspired by the villa that lies under the school playing field.
The exhibition is in the exhibition room next to the Museum. It is open during Library hours and runs until 6th...
Read MoreBradford at War
‘Names in Stone – the Great War 1914-18
by Jonathan Falconer
Location: Bradford on Avon Library Time: 7-30pm Date: Thursday 30th September 2010
EXHIBITION Bradford on Avon Library 27th September – 8th October...
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Finds identification on Saturday, 2 October, 10-4pm.
Kate Hinds, Finds Liaison Officer (Portable Antiquities Scheme) and other experts will be on hand to identify any archaeological finds you may have made whilst digging your garden or out walking. There will be a prize for the most unusual find brought in!
Date: Saturday, 2 October 2010 Time:...
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