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Opening Times: (Beginning April to end October)
Every Sunday 2:15pm - 4:45pm
Bank Holiday Mondays 2:15pm - 4:45pm
Other times by
appointment with Curator for groups (four or more).
A donation to the museum
is requested for such openings.
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E mail:
coggeshallmuseum@btinternet.com |
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By Post |
Coggeshall
Museum, The Village Hall, Stoneham Street, Coggeshall, CO6 1UH |
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Contact for volunteer curator: |
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Tel. +44 (0)1376 563003 |
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Please note this is not at the museum |
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The museum is located next to the Village Hall and adjoins
Coggeshall's free car park. There is one disabled parking space
outside the museum and others just a few yards away in the car park.
The museum is 'wheelchair friendly'. Guide dogs welcome and there is
a hitching ring outside for other dogs.
The public toilets are located at the Village Hall - please ask for
the key to the wheelchair access toilet.
On this site we aim to
give our on-line visitors a glimpse of what we have on show. Instead of just a
collection of pictures of items in the museum, the site has been divided into 'topics' and the pages
include a bit of the story associated with that topic, hopefully showing
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COGGESHALL ROLL OF HONOUR |
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year a book commemorating the men of Coggeshall who gave their lives
in the two World Wars has been compiled by volunteers at the museum.
The book is on display in the museum and has now been included on
the website in the Family Research page. Click on the poppies to
take you to that section |
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FOR
FAMILY RESEARCHERS
Burial records for the 'Old Burial Ground' - Register of Graves for
Coggeshall Cemetery, Baptist records, Wesleyan Methodist baptisms,
Congregational Church baptisms, Transcript of Marriages 1754 - 1851,
Transcript of
Burials in St Peter's churchyard 1811 - 1856. All
in PDF form on the Family research page.
Newly opened records room in museum. See the picture on Family
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New!
Church kneelers for the Diamond
Jubilee - pictures on the Weaving page |
CAN YOU
IDENTIFY THIS OBJECT and
help us solve the mystery
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Come
and see our dolls house - a model of the former 'Goodies' shop in East
Street |
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| How It All
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Coggeshall Museum opened in 1990 in an annex to St. Peter's Hall (now the Village Hall) in Stoneham Street. The
hall itself was formerly one of Coggeshall's breweries but since the 1920s has
been a focus for many of Coggeshall's community activities. During the Second
World War the hall provided a place to relax for the many servicemen of all
nationalities who were stationed at the airfields that surrounded this small
Essex town. The museum was established in what had been the kitchen which
provided meals for the nearby primary school with the aim to preserve Coggeshall's historic past
and to carry on recording today's events for generations to come. It was set up
by enthusiastic band of volunteers who do all the maintenance and the
setting of the exhibits.
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Volunteer staff
Derek Brindley and Malcolm Ratcliffe paint the exterior of the
museum |
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Stan Haines, Doug
Judd and Brian Tebbutt discuss an exhibit for the new season |
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Museum fundraising
stall on Market Day |
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The memorabilia on show has been
loaned or donated by local people and some of the exhibits change from year to year,
different themes taking precedence, so there is always something new to see. The
museum is run entirely by volunteers and there is no set admission charge, but
donations are always very welcome to help offset running costs and improve the
standard of the exhibitions. It is hoped that visitors to the museum, whether
from Coggeshall itself or from further afield, will find something of interest
in their look at Coggeshall's past and, above all, will enjoy their visit and
come and see us again.
A free town walk leaflet is available in the museum as well as a variety
of other leaflets about the visitor attractions in the surrounding area.
There are cafes, restaurants and pubs in Coggeshall as well as
attractive areas to picnic.
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To learn a bit of the history,
take an on-line walk around Coggeshall. Just click on the Footprints
icon and step back into Coggeshall's past.
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Some of our visitors |
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Anglia TV technical
crew get ready for recording while presenter Brian McEnery studies the displays |
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The new season and
Coggeshall folk come to see the new exhibits |
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Some members of Waltham Abbey
Historical Society on a pre-arranged group visit
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(Picture
courtesy of Lawrence Greenall, WAHS) |
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