Welcome to all our members, volunteers and supporters
Come and discover the story of Dereham's Past
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum is now closed until May.
We plan to open on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays
from Saturday 4 May to Saturday 28 September
Normal opening times:
1.30pm to 4pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays
11am to 2pm on Fridays
but please check the Museum Opening Times link
for details of any days or times when we may be closed
Admission £2 adults
Children under 16 free with a paying adult.
Find out 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 to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage, if you are interested please email
ken-hawkins@tiscali.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 to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage, if you are interested please email
ken-hawkins@tiscali.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 talk is on
Wednesday 10 April 2019
The library at Blickling - history and future
Speaker: Bunty Gotts
The library at Blickling is the most significant of all 140 libraries held by the National Trust. Bunty Gotts will tell us about the new exhibition of sixteenth and seventeenth century books, opening in May 2019, and some of the most important books held at Blickling. Bunty will also explain what is being done to protect the library which is under threat from both structural problems and pest infestation.
Trinity Methodist Church Hall,
Theatre Street, Dereham,
NR19 2EP
at 7.30pm
Admission is £1 for members of Dereham Antiquarian Society and £3 for non-members. Refreshments are included. Visitors are always welcome, with the fee payable on the door.
"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.
