Lyn and Exmoor Museum

A charming small museum with collections of agricultural and domestic tools from Lynton and Exmoor. Also maritime, railway, and natural history.

Unique pictures of the Lynmouth Flood, and a Victorian dolls’ house. Housed in Lynton’s oldest surviving domestic dwelling, it even includes its own ghost!

Leominster Museum

EXPLORE HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP!

Leominster and its surrounding villages has a fascinating history.

Leominster Museum tells the story of Leominster and its people from pre Roman times to the present day. The collection comprises artefacts, pictures, photographs, postcards and documents, including an important collection of paintings and drawings by famous Leominster Victorian artist John Scarlett Davis.  The museum archive is available for research purposes, and the museum has education as the core of its activities.

The museum has full disabled access to the ground floor, except that the toilet facilities are not currently wheelchair-accessible. Information on exhibits in the west gallery is available on the ground floor; from 2017 the south gallery is closed to the public, so as to create more storage and curatorial working space.

Trowbridge Museum

Trowbridge Museum tells the story of the town and the West of England woollen cloth trade. Through fascinating objects and unique Textile related machinery wonderful images learn how the town developed from Saxon times to the present day as well as discover how the woollen cloth trade came to dominate the town and the surrounding area.

Changing exhibitions throughout the year focus on different aspects of the town’s story, biennial Cloth Road and WEFT exhibitions as well as smaller shows by partners such as the U3A and Trowbridge Camera Club.

We have a thriving Learning and Outreach service for children and adults and a regular programme of art, craft and history workshops. If you are undertaking some local history or family research then give us call or if you just want to see our incredibly rare Spinning Jenny just pop along – we are open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am.

We would like to thank Trowbridge Camera Club for many of the images used on this website.

Brixham Heritage Museum

Lydiard House

Lydiard Park is a beautiful historic estate on the western edge of Swindon, with the Palladian House, Church and Walled Garden, set in 260 acres of parkland. The children’s play area, Cafe & Tea Rooms, events and education programmes make Lydiard Park a great destination for a family day out.

Lawrence House Museum

Lawrence House, Launceston, is a fine Georgian house built in 1753, located in a street which John Betjeman described as ‘having the most perfect collection of 18th Century townhouses in Cornwall’. It is owned by the National Trust and leased to Launceston Town Council, who use it to house the town museum, and as a civic centre.

For those less mobile, there are albums of our first floor and basement exhibits which you can enjoy in Room 5 on the ground floor so that you won’t miss a thing.

Admission is free but donations, which support the work of the museum, would be appreciated. Disabled access to the ground floor only ( 6 rooms ).

SS Great Britain

Brunel’s SS Great Britain is one of the most important historic ships in the world. When she was launched in 1843 she was called ‘the greatest experiment since the Creation’.

By combining size, power and innovative technology, Brunel created a ship that changed history. His vision for the SS Great Britain made her the great-great-grandmother for all modern ships.

Reading Museum

Reading Museum has provided award-winning opportunities for learning, inspiration and enjoyment since 1883. From our earliest days we collected archaeology, art, natural history, and ethnography, and objects relating to Reading. Today we focus on collecting linked with Reading, its people and environment.

Our school loans service started in 1911 and has offered opportunities for people to handle real artefacts ever since. Innovative engagement with collections through learning, community and volunteering is integral to our DNA.

Lostwithiel Museum

Lostwithiel Museum

 The museum is housed in a Georgian building on Fore Street. It was originally the Corn Exchange and  has also been a school-room, a butchers, then a magistrate’s court and the town jail. Nowadays the building houses the Guildhall, which is used for meetings of Lostwithiel Town Council, above the museum.
The museum was founded in 1972 and  it is now is now a fully accredited museum and a registered charity, which is run entirely by volunteers.

Bristolʼs Blaise Castle House Museum

Friends of Blaise

Welcome to the Friends of Blaise website, our website is currently under construction, which means currently some pages/content is unavalible, but please bare with us and they will be added shortly.

Message from Chairman

For those who don’t already know, we are a volunteer community group who work with Bristol City Council to conserve, improve and promote this wonderful Estate.

As we progress through 2018, we face falling Council Park budgets, making the job of maintaining the fabric of Blaise even harder than it was last year.

This will clearly be our biggest challenge and to meet it we will need to put more emphasis into mobilising volunteer support, deciding on our top priorities and implementing these with the funding we have at our disposal.

We must also ensure that our voices are heard by the Council as they implement their austerity budget plans.

But we cannot do this without the help of the local community and in particular, the Friends of Blaise and your suggestions and support are now needed more than ever.

However the current situation that the Council now finds itself is leading to a closer more cooperative relationship with them for our volunteer work and funding contributions, and this has got to be a good thing for us in the longer term.