Some remarkable women…

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Tickets are selling fast for our next Winter Talk.  Last night’s talk on Thornbury and the Railway was a sell-out with 90 people attending and many last-minute applicants disappointed.

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Gentlemen – how about some sock darning?

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In June 1900, you could have entered a Gentlemen’s Sock Darning Competition – and won three shillings as first prize.  For the ‘Ladies’, there was a competition to drive in nails – with equal prize money!   Women judged the men and men judged the women.

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Hear the train a comin’

 

 

Thornbury Railway news item

Remember when the railway came to Thornbury?  Or maybe you find it hard to imagine that Thornbury ever had a railway station, a station master on his bicycle, and  a regular train service?

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Fire! Fire!

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A change of plan here at the museum.  We’d intended to open the new year with an exhibition on ‘Hatches, Matches and Dispatches’. 

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Bringing babies into the world

We’ve just had a donation which will bring back memories for lots of Thornbury families.

We’ve been given Nurse Cotton’s midwife’s bag.  Edith Cotton was the District Nurse for Thornbury from 1947 to 1978 and during that time is said to have delivered around 1,800 local babies!  

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Goodbye to our Roman courtyard garden

There’s still some colour in our small courtyard garden but this year will see the end of the garden’s Roman theme. Rosie, our ‘Head Gardener’, has plans for a different theme next year. 

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We’ve Acquired a ‘Death Penny’

With the help of the Friends of the Museum, we’ve just been able to buy a ‘Death Penny’ relating to a locally born man who died in the First World War. It’s a large object, as wide as a man’s hand.  

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