Our Historical Society Tour of a Local Village
was on Saturday 24th July visiting East Tytherton. Click on the link for more information.
Visit Purton Historical Society's special website dedicated to the Bicentenary Celebrations for Nevil Maskelyne (1732 - 1811). The 5th Astronomer Royal had Purton connections and was buried in St Mary's Church graveyard.
Short discussions of items in the Museum's Collection.
A new item is added at the beginning of each month.
Bob Lloyd's research on Purton War Memorials and his book
"Village Sons & the Great War"
can be found at
www.purtonwarmemorial.co.uk
Coach Outing
This year's outing is on Saturday 18th June 2011
to Lichfield and the National Memorial Arboretum.
Click on the link for details and a booking form.
Purton Museum has a collection which represents 2,000 years of the village’s history from the Ringsbury Camp Iron Age Hillfort, through Roman and Saxon finds towards the present day.
Letters found up a chimney related to the turnpikes and prize fighting
in the 1820s. They feature in this web exhibition.
19 January 2012: John Clark
"The Massacre of Oradour-Sur-Glane (part 2)"
We meet at 7.30 pm at St Mary's School Hall, Purton
For those who might wish to browse the Museum's Accessions Catalogue this is now available for inspection. I am gradually adding links to images of items in the catalogue. If the Accession No. is underlined ... click on it!
Purton Museum policy documents are now available for you to see. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to access them.
