Welcome to the story of Dereham's Past
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum reopens on 10th May 2014.
Discover more about Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum of local history and archaeology - and the group of volunteers who run it from the Dereham Antiquarian Society.
Interested in history? Local, family, archaeology - whatever! Please come and join us, membership of the Society is open to all.
For further information, please choose from the menu on the left-hand side, or above if you are using a mobile phone.
World War One
Help us commemorate the centenary of World War One over the next four years. Have you any Dereham related photos, letters, postcards or mementoes that we could record for display in the museum, and to include in the DAS town archive for generations to come? If so please contact us on
bbcmuseum@outlook.com or up load a digital copy with description here on contact us
May 10th is our WW1 Centenary free family open day at the museum - from 10am to 4pm
Experience the sights & sounds of 1914. See a working 100 year old
Motor Cycle. Live music & wind-up gramophone with original WW1 records. View life at the time in 3D on a stereo viewer & photo-cards of the time. Children can help decorate the cottage with paper chains.
The exhibition includes stories of Dereham families shared with the
museum to mark the centenary of the Great War.
If you want to share your family’s WW1 story please come along.
Interested in history? Local, family, archaeology - whatever! Please come and join us, membership of the Society is open to all.
For further information, please choose from the menu on the left-hand side, or above if you are using a mobile phone.
World War One
Help us commemorate the centenary of World War One over the next four years. Have you any Dereham related photos, letters, postcards or mementoes that we could record for display in the museum, and to include in the DAS town archive for generations to come? If so please contact us on
bbcmuseum@outlook.com or up load a digital copy with description here on contact us
May 10th is our WW1 Centenary free family open day at the museum - from 10am to 4pm
Experience the sights & sounds of 1914. See a working 100 year old
Motor Cycle. Live music & wind-up gramophone with original WW1 records. View life at the time in 3D on a stereo viewer & photo-cards of the time. Children can help decorate the cottage with paper chains.
The exhibition includes stories of Dereham families shared with the
museum to mark the centenary of the Great War.
If you want to share your family’s WW1 story please come along.
"Pretty, quiet Dereham, thou pattern of an English town".
Quotation from Lavengro by George Borrow, one of Dereham's famous sons, born in 1803.
Quotation from Lavengro by George Borrow, one of Dereham's famous sons, born in 1803.
Our Next Event: Wed. April 23rd 2014
Annual Cowper Evening at Church House, Church St, Dereham 7.30pm
with the Rev. Jonathan Boston
An evening celebrating the life and work of the poet William Cowper (1731 to 1800). One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Cowper died in the spring of 1800. He is buried St. Nicholas Church, East Dereham.
Annual Cowper Evening at Church House, Church St, Dereham 7.30pm
with the Rev. Jonathan Boston
An evening celebrating the life and work of the poet William Cowper (1731 to 1800). One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Cowper died in the spring of 1800. He is buried St. Nicholas Church, East Dereham.
