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Frome Heritage Museum 2019 Open Day Who’s Who FROME HERITAGE MUSEUM President & Vice-chair of Trustees Hilary Daniel Chair, Board of Trustees Bob Cuzner Chair, Management Committee Barry Edwards 2019 OPEN DAY Treasurer & Company Secretary Brian Marshall Chair, Artefacts Trust Emma Robinson Monday 15 July Archive Library Lead Diana Ingram Exhibitions & Displays Lead Sheila Gore IT Systems Lead Adam Foster-Jones Business & Community Lead Steve Macarthur Museum Secretary Stephanie Stevens Please visit us again We are open between 10am and 2pm from Tuesday to Saturday each week from mid-March to mid-November. Welcome! We are also open on the first Sunday of the month to co-incide with Our Open Day is your opportunity to freely wander into a Frome Independent Market. world depicting Frome’s heritage, its characters, its industries and businesses, and its relationship with places Families and children will find the Museum friendly and welcoming, well beyond Somerset. while researchers and students will find the Museum convenient and supportive. An appointment is recommended for research into specific You will also be able to meet Volunteers and talk about the or detailed subjects. achievements and plans of the Museum. Our telephone number is: 01373 454611; and our e-mail address is: Entry is free. [email protected]. Doors open between 10:00am and 03:00pm. Donations are of course very welcome because we are a community museum without any There is more information about our Museum on our website at: regular funding from local or central government. A donations box is https://fromemuseum.wordpress.com/. close to the entrance. We are at 1 North Parade, Frome BA11 1AT The Museum is located in the centre of the ancient Somerset town of Frome. Buses from Bath, Westbury, Trowbridge, Chippenham and London stop in the Town centre and trains are available from Frome Station to the South Coast and London. Council car parks are sited to the rear of the Museum and others are a few minutes walking distance. Published by Frome Heritage Museum. 2019 (V-04) What can we show you today? We even have an internationally recognised Library The Heritage Museum shows off its collections, library and archives in We have an extensive library of ancient and contemporary books, a finely preserved Victorian building which was once famous as the maps, documents and artworks. An ancient town like Frome has Frome Scientific & Literary Institute. inspired many researchers, academics, authors and artists to record their ideas, knowledge and impressions of the area. It is fascinating to see the timeline beginning in AD685 of Frome’s history depicted in the first (main) gallery. In the same gallery are Have you seen the Frome Museum Catalogue? examples of the metal castings of Singers, the printing of Butler & The Museum has many thousands of items on display and in storage Tanner, the uniforms of local regiments, the geological samples of and we must keep a careful record of them all. Over the last three local terrain, and the bones of extinct wild animals that roamed the years a dedicated team at the Museum has been compiling a area. computerised catalogue which now contains some 17,000 records. Old Shops and Businesses Come Back to Life Ask one of our Stewards or Trustees if you would like to know what In our lower gallery you will find displays of some long-established items or information the Museum holds on a particular subject that Frome shops and businesses. A view into the window of Norman interests you. They will introduce you to our catalogue specialists who Maggs the Chemist will reveal coloured medicines, mysterious will demonstrate how to use the catalogue. powders and curious measuring devices from a bygone age. The catalogue will be made available on the internet later this year, so Looking over the counter of Garston’s Veterinary Surgery will show please watch our website (www.frome-heritage-museum.org) for more the equipment and treatments that were used to protect and heal local news about this project. pets and farm animals, not to mention exotic creatures that lived in the nearby Wild Life Park at Longleat. Do you know all about your own family history? Our extensive collection of historic reference material and access to 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of J. W. Singer, one of genealogical data means we can help you build your family tree. Ask Frome’s most celebrated sons. a Steward or Trustee to meet our genealogy specialist. John Webb Singer, born in 1819, Can we show you everything today? turned to the manufacture and We are fortunate in having some specialist collections, such as casting of mostly bronze products vintage clothing and footwear, local craftsman’s tools, Victorian and and the construction of statues. His Edwardian local newspapers, and many ancient maps. Unfortunately, company, at its height, commanded a these need careful handling and so we recommend that visitors make workforce of over 700, produced an appointment to view such items. monumental pieces including Boadicea on the Thames Would you like to help us? Embankment, the Rhodes Memorial Our Heritage Museum is run solely by volunteers. Please ask for Boadicea and her Daughters, cast at lions and the figure of Justice atop details from one of our volunteers in reception or one of our Trustees. Singer’s Foundry and sited on the Thames Embankment the Old Bailey. The Museum is in the care of an unpaid Board, who have a responsibility, not only to maintain the existing collections, library and This major heritage project, which is being led by Rook Lane Arts in archives, but also to seek out new artefacts and samples to Frome, is presenting Frome Heritage Museum’s extensive collection comprehensively reflect the rich heritage of Frome and the of photographs, archived information, artefacts and publications. surrounding area. .
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