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The Cyclists’ Touring Club sign came from the outside wall of the former New Bear Hotel in Silver Street, Bradford. In the late 19th century cycling opened up a new world of travelling for people who could not afford the huge cost of keeping a horse and carriage. The club was founded in 1878 and introduced these big cast iron signs on cycle-friendly inns and hotels from 1884. One is still to be seen in situ next to the Castle Inn. The club, now called CTC, is still going today.

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The Pinckney Cup was presented to the former County Technical School (later Fitzmaurice Grammar School) in 1927 by Captain Erlysman Charles Pinckney, a Justice of the Peace and captain of local volunteer soldiers. It was awarded for boys’ athletics at the school’s annual sports day. It is one of several trophies from the school that are now in the Museum.

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The lead medallion was issued in 1897 when Bradford’s Memorial Baths were opened. The complex included a swimming bath and lasted until the early 1960s; new swimming baths were built a decade later.

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The Museum holds the cups and other trophies of the Bradford on Avon Angling Association. The Kennet & Avon Canal and the River Avon provide plenty of opportunity for fishing. This is the Widbrook Trophy for boys, meaning it was awarded for a competition staged along the stretch of the canal from the Trowbridge Road bridge at Widbrook. It was presented by F. Bence in 1961.

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A certificate that was awarded to Bradford Over-60s Choir in competition at a County-wide music festival. The choir was very successful at these events and the Museum has a trophy cup that was won by it.

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A programme for a performance by the Bradford Excelsior Choir at the Town Hall in 1913. The conductor was E. Holdom, a printer in Silver Street who printed the programme.

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Posters (below) for entertainments connected with the River Carnival that was arranged by the Bradford on Avon Rowing Club.

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The Shandon Trophy was awarded to the winner of the annual Save the Children Fund Gymkhana, which was held between 1976 and 1990 on a field of Upper Bearfield Farm, Bradford. It was presented by the Powers, the family who ran the Shandon Steak House in Market Street, now the Dandy Lion public house.

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Two trophy silver-plated tankards awarded by the Wiltshire Times newspaper to the winners, father and son team of Rowland and Kenneth Uncles, in the Hospital Pairs Bowls Competition in 1933.

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A fixture card for the matches that were played by the Bradford on Avon Juniors Football Club in the season 1913-1914, on the eve of the Great War. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have done very well, with 1 – 1 draws at home as the best results. The card has the name of George Andrews, who was not himself a junior at the time, but his son would have been.

Ticket stubs for the Alexander Cinema which used what is now St Margaret’s Hall from about 1917 until the 1950s. Previously there had been a cinema in the council chamber of the former Town Hall (now the Catholic Church).