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.
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.
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.
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
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.
