Welcome to the story of Dereham's Past
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum is open from 7th May to the 1st October 2016 with new displays.
Discover more about Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum of local history - and the group of volunteers who run it from the Dereham Antiquarian Society.
Archaeological terms explained: Antiquarian - Someone who studies the past as a hobby rather than as a profession.
Would you like to help us keep the museum open? We urgently need more volunteers and committee members to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage, if you are interested please email mus@suewhite.demon.co.uk .
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.
Archaeological terms explained: Antiquarian - Someone who studies the past as a hobby rather than as a profession.
Would you like to help us keep the museum open? We urgently need more volunteers and committee members to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage, if you are interested please email mus@suewhite.demon.co.uk .
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.
Our Next Event
Wednesday September 14th 2016
Gressenhall: The Paupers Palace
Speaker: Stephen Pope
Come and find out about life in the workhouse at Gressenhall.
Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Theatre Street, Dereham, NR19 2EP at 7.30pm
Wednesday September 14th 2016
Gressenhall: The Paupers Palace
Speaker: Stephen Pope
Come and find out about life in the workhouse at Gressenhall.
Trinity Methodist Church Hall, Theatre Street, Dereham, NR19 2EP at 7.30pm
World War One Exhibition for Museum
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 your family have any stories, information or images about that fateful day please let us know, we would love to include them in our museum displays. Please contact Sue Walker White at sue@suewhite.demon.co.uk
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 your family have any stories, information or images about that fateful day please let us know, we would love to include them in our museum displays. Please contact Sue Walker White at sue@suewhite.demon.co.uk
"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.
