Welcome to the story of Dereham's Past
Bishop Bonner's Cottage Museum has now closed for the 2014 season and will be reopening 9th May 2015.
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.
Interested in history? Local, family, archaeology - whatever! We need more volunteers to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage. 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.
Interested in history? Local, family, archaeology - whatever! We need more volunteers to help us preserve and interpret the town's heritage. 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.
Happy New Year to you all - and a huge thank you to all our museum visitors, volunteers and supporters we could not do it without you.
World War One Exhibition for Museum in 2015
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? Next year 2015 we will be looking at the 100th anniversary of the Bombing of Dereham by a Zeppelin on 8th September 1915. 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? Next year 2015 we will be looking at the 100th anniversary of the Bombing of Dereham by a Zeppelin on 8th September 1915. 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
Our Next Event
Wednesday February 11th 2015 at 7.30
Dereham Antiquarian Society AGM
At Trinity Methodist Church Hall,
Theatre Street,
Dereham, NR19 2EP
at 7.30pm
"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.
