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The Cater Museum houses many artifacts of Billericay and contains a lot of local information. The 18th to 19th century red brick building is tiled and has dormer windows, one of which depicts the war time practice of applying tape to reduce flying...
Bocking Windmill is a post mill with a 2-storey roundhouse, built in 1721 and moved to its present site in 1829. It ceased working at the outbreak of the First World War and was renovated externally in the 1980s and internally in the 1990s. Most m...
At Braintree Museum the story of the Braintree District and its diverse industrial and cultural history unfolds. The main galleries examine the development of the area from prehistory to the twenty-first century, focusing upon the textile and manu...
Great Bardfield Cottage Museum is a 19th century village lock-up and recently renovated 16th century charity cottage housing agricultural and domestic artefacts from 19th and 20th centuries, plus rural crafts such as straw-plaiting and corn-dollies. ...
Cressing Temple takes its unusual name from the medieval monks of the Knights Templar who founded the two vast 13th century timber barns, which form the centrepiece of this delightful rural estate. The Tudor Walled Garden is inspired by an age wh...
Our aim is to make the past come to life at Brentwood Museum with an exciting collection of everyday objects from previous generations. Even the Museum itself is part of Brentwood's history. It is housed in a quaint little 19th century cemetery lodge...
The Burnham on Crouch and District Museum is situated on the Quay at the junction with Coronation Road. It is devoted to the History of Burnham on Crouch & the Dengie Hundred area. The Museum consists of two floors and a mezzanine, with exhib...
Mangapps Railway Museum is a privately owned working railway and museum established on a farm at Burnham on Crouch, Essex. It features a ¾ mile standard gauge passenger carrying line, with restored stations, signal boxes and ancillary equipment rem...
Housed in the historic former Canvey & District bus Depot built in 1934 and vacated by Eastern National in 1978, the Castle Point Transport Museum is home to over thirty old and rare buses and coaches alongside vintage commercials,military and emerg...
Canvey Island was drained and embanked by the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden in the 17th century. Numerous Dutch workers and their families settled here and they built rather unusual octagonal cottages of which two still survive. One cottage,...
Chelmsford Museum tells the story of the county town from the Ice Age to the present, including new displays on the more recent history, and festivals and music. There are additional displays on natural history, art, glass and pottery, as well as ...
The Museum's collection consists of objects, paper documents and photographs relating to the history of the force from 1840 to the present day. Why does Essex Police have a Museum? We are very fortunate to have a Police Museum which is open to th...
The East Essex Aviation Society and Museum has been housed in the historic Martello Tower at Point Clear since it’s first opening to visitors in 1986. The Tower is one of the first Napoleonic Forts built in 1806 on the East Coast to repel any poss...
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....
Brightlingsea Museum has collections that represent collections of objects, photographs and pictures illustrative of the social and economic history of the town and its immediate surroundings over the past 700 years, in particular its Cinque Port con...
Follow in the footsteps of Roman soldiers, Norman invaders, the Witchfinder General and the devastation of Queen Boudica. Explore over 2000 years of some of the most important events in British history in this magnificent Castle! There is so much to ...
Feering and Kelvedon Local History Museum displays are open to the public in one large room and two smaller ones, in the old British School at Kelvedon. Documentary archives are kept in controlled conditions in a fourth room; subject to proof of iden...
Hollytrees Museum displays three centuries of fascinating toys, costume and decorative arts displayed in an attractive Georgian town house from 1718. Parkland children's play area, shop, sensory garden. An important part of Colchester's rich hist...
The Mersea Island Museum is an independent museum established in 1976 and occupying purpose-built premises in the centre of West Mersea, just to the east of the Parish Church. The traditional local activities of fishing, oystering, wild fowling a...
The National History Museum lets you get a fascinating chance to get closer to nature. Find out about wildlife habitats, biodiversity and climate change. Did you know that there was an earthquake in Colchester in 1884? Or that mammoths and hippo...
Thorrington Tide Mill is a picturesque, medium-sized, timber-framed, tide-driven watermill, dated 1831, in the ownwership of Essex County Council. This has a breast-shot waterwheel and 3 pairs of millstones. It is one of only a handful of tide mil...
Tiptree Tearooms, Museum and Jam Shop was started over 50 years ago, John Wilkin began collecting the paraphernalia of preserve making and Essex village life. The museum is jam packed giving an insight into developing technologies and a glimpse of...
Visit Castle House and you will find the largest single collection of Munnings' works, fittingly displayed in the home he was so proud to own. In the gentle tranquil beauty of the English country garden stands Munning's studio, left much as it was...
North Weald Airfield was the famous Battle of Britain fighter base - RAF North Weald - near to the Essex town of Epping and easily accessible from London. The airfield is still very active, and on most summer week-ends visitors may see some of the ve...
The Thurrock Museum and Heritage Services displays archaeology, social, agricultural, industrial and maritime history of the Thurrock area....
The Museum of Harlow is located in the picturesque former Mark Hall stable block and kitchen gardens The Museum of Harlow offers a unique opportunity for visitors to discover the rich history of the town they see around them. The Museum uses objec...
The Harwich Lifeboat museum houses the old Clacton offshore lifeboat the "Valentine Wyndham-Quin", which is a 37ft Oakley class of lifeboat. She was stationed at the Clacton Lifeboat station between 1968 -1984 and completed many honorable services. ...
The Harwich Maritime Museum which superb nautical displays are housed in a decommissioned lighthouse with excellent views over the harbour and its unending shipping movements. The lighthouse that previously occupied this site was painted by John C...
Maldon and District Agricultural Museum features a large collection of vintage farm machinery, domestic bygones, wirelesses, photographs and clocks. ...
Maldon Museum, the "Musuem in The Park" exhibits items directly related to the District, whether they are domestic, industrial, natural or manufactured, discovered locally or collected from afar. The Maldon Museum is housed in an Edwardian buildin...
The Museum of Power is housed in a former Pumping Station and newly refurbished, the museum contains a fascinating collection which ranges from a working overhead machine shop to a petrol powered iron. The jewel in our crown is the 'Lilleshall' tripl...
Manningtree and District Local History Museum has a large collection of items relating principally to the town of Manningtree and the villages of Lawford and Mistley and the River Stour. Other items relate to ‘BX Plastics’ Brantham and Cattawade ...
The Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre is housed within Magazine No.5 of what was once the Royal Magazine for Gunpowder situated on the banks of the River Thames. Constructed in 1759, the five magazines and Proof House were used to test, store ...
The Rayleigh Windmill Museum was built in about 1809 and is a Grade II listed building. The first floor of the Windmill houses an Accredited Museum, particular emphasis is placed on the collection of photos, archives, wartime, domestic, farming a...
Saffron Walden Museum opened in 1835. With wide-ranging collections, from moccasins and mummy cases to mammoth tusks and Wallace the lion, it still contains much to "stand awhile and admire". This award-winning, "friendly, family-size museum" is ...
Walton On The Naze Maritime Museum is a 120-year-old former lifeboat house, carefully restored with exhibitions of local interest particularly maritime, urban, geological and seaside and development. Currently restoring a 100-year-old Norfolk and ...
Battlesbridge Antiques Centre comprises over 80 dealers housed in a variety of old buildings and courtyards. Also housed in the Battlesbridge Antiques Centre is a vintage motorcycle museum....
Dorothy L Sayers Centre houses a collection of over 400 volumes of her novels, essays, plays, poetry and religious writing together with biographies, critical and other allied works and publications of the Dorothy L Sayers Society, including the volu...
The Central Museum has displays of local history, geology and wildlife. Upstairs, Southend Planetarium allows visitors to sit back and enjoy a 40-minute tour of the universe presented by a guide. The Museum organises many events and exhibition...
Southchurch Hall museum is housed in the half-timbered medieval manor house, which dates to the early 14th century. The Museum is laid out in a series of period rooms and is an ideal setting for discovering what life was like in medieval, Tudor, S...
Prittlewell Priory Museum is a stunning building which tells the story of it's former residents. From the Cluniac Monks in the 13th Century to the Victorian Family, the Scrattons, the last to live in this wonderful home. ...
The Museum will bring back fond memories for some and will be a brand new experience for younger generations. Climb aboard an original 1949 train and remember days gone by. We have pictorial displays, working penny slot machines, an original Toastr...
Alan Goldsmith, owner and curator of the toy museum, was born during WWII, during a time in British history when so many sacrifices were made for the war effort in every walk of day to day life; toys were one of these sacrifices. Alan’s passion ...
Epping Forest District Museum tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in south Essex from the earliest inhabitants to the present. Based in the historic Waltham Abbey, in a building dating back to 1520, the Museum offers something...
The Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey is an important heritage site with a remarkable true story. The charity which runs the attraction is committed to conserving and sharing the fascinating 300 year history with future generations. This ver...
Throughout the twentieth century, some of the world's fastest and most revolutionary motorboats were designed and built in Britain. The best of these extraordinary machines are preserved at the Museum.
You can trace the history of these fascinatin...
The East Anglian Railway Museum, based just outside Colchester, Essex, is a Working Museum dedicated to preserving the history of railways in the Eastern Counties. Open every day between 10am and 4:30pm (or Dusk if earlier), on certain days specia...
Walton Hall Museum is an impressive 17th century restored Essex Barn. Displays include, farming implements, automobile memorabilia, artefacts from both world wars, childrens toys, Victorian nursery including many perambulators, radios and much mo...
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