Click on a link below for more info!

 

Our Historical Society  Tour of a Local Village 
will be on Saturday 24th July visiting East Tytherton.   Click on the link for more information.
 

The subject of the Spring 2010 lecture course by Paul Booy
is The Victorians at Home & Abroad and runs from 10 February.
 Click on the link for details.

Exhibit of the Month
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 will be on Saturday 19th June 2010
to Charlcote Park.   

 Click here for details and a booking form.

Outline of Collection
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.
Featured Exhibition
The Phillip Bramble Letters

Letters found up a chimney related to the turnpikes and prize fighting
in the 1820s. They feature in this web exhibition. Bramble Exhibition
OUR NEXT MEETING
is on 20 May.    Victoria Bainbridge will be speaking on The Churches and Chapels of Purton and the Hamlet of Braydon.  
We meet at 7.30 pm at
St Mary's School Upper Hall, College Road
ACCESSIONS REGISTER
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!
POLICY DOCUMENTS
Purton Museum policy documents are now available for you to see. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to access them.

Purton Museum
1 High Street   Purton   Swindon   Wiltshire   SN5 4AA   England

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