Exhibition: 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...
Read MoreFound something fascinating?
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:...
Read MoreMoulton exhibition April 2010
Alex Moulton has fond memories of his time as a student in Cambridge. One of the loudest is removing the silencer and riding his motorbike up and down a passageway in the university engineering department. Friends were helping him tune and test the bike for speed trials at Syston in 1938.
He had bought the machine – a Scott TT Replica built in 1931 – from...
Read MorePhotographing the Treasures of Wiltshire
Bradford on Avon Museum has just hosted a travelling exhibition from Wiltshire Council’s Museums Service.
In an award-winning collaboration between the Council, Swindon New College and museums around Wiltshire, including Bradford, photography students had week-long placements in the museums. The idea was that the students would get experience in recording a wide variety of objects...
Read MoreMarcos exhibition April 2010
Marcos cars were built by a skilled team at Greenland Mills from 1962 to 1969, moving then to premises at Westbury. The co-founder and company director Jem Marsh celebrates his 80th birthday in April.
Read MoreRoman villas exhibition Dec 2009
St Laurence School Year 7 History Skills Project
Over the Christmas break 2009/2010 we arranged for students from St Laurence School to display their models of Roman Villas in the Library exhibition room. This is a project carried out each year by Year 7 students and followed on from the Museum’s exhibition about Roman Bradford. They had about 2 weeks to create their model, having...
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Iron age event activities July 2009
Many Bradford families enjoyed meeting Matt Russell, Iron Age enthusiast, who brought his weapons, clothing and artefacts along to Bradford Museum to give us a taste of life in the iron age. Shield making, pottery and purse sewing were some of the activities on offer.
Woad tattoos were popular as was Matt’s demonstration of replica weapons from the...
Read MoreRoman Event June 2009
Something for the young…
The events held in 2009 have given the Museum an opportunity to reach out to the younger members of our town. We have been forging links with local schools and working with teachers and students. None of this work would be affordable without the generous support of the local Lewellyn Palmer Trust.
After the toddlers ‘Welly Walk’, Fitzmaurice...
Read MoreThe River runs through it March 2009
Co-operation between Louise Weissel of the Welly walkers and Gill Winfield of the Museum Event group brought very young children into the museum to create a collage of the River Avon which runs through their town. This followed a walk along the riverside to the country park, where a picnic was enjoyed by mums and...
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