A warm welcome to all our members, volunteers and supporters
Come and see the story of Dereham's Past
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum will be open again from 6th May to the 30th September 2017 with new displays on
'Hobbies of Dereham' .
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.
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Our Next Event
12th July 2017 - 7.30pm
The Pre-History of Dereham
Speaker: Claire Bradshaw from Norfolk Historic Environment Service, Gressenhall.
At Trinity Methodist Church Hall,
Theatre Street, Dereham,
NR19 2EP
Admission £1 for members of
Dereham Antiquarian Society
and £3 for non-members, including
refreshments
12th July 2017 - 7.30pm
The Pre-History of Dereham
Speaker: Claire Bradshaw from Norfolk Historic Environment Service, Gressenhall.
At Trinity Methodist Church Hall,
Theatre Street, Dereham,
NR19 2EP
Admission £1 for members of
Dereham Antiquarian Society
and £3 for non-members, including
refreshments
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.
