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Quiz Night
Friday 22 April
7.00pm – 9.00pm
Braintree District Museum is once again running its extremely popular Quiz Night on Friday 22 April 2016.
This fun filled early evening event has always been incredibly popular and is sure to be a sell out.
Andy Beatty of the Lions Club, Braintree and the U3A will be our quiz master and his effervescent and popular personality will be sure to make the evening a thoroughly enjoyable one.
Andy will be encouraging the grey matter to kick into gear with rounds such as A Right Royal Round to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday along with our popular history round which we would expect museum staff and volunteers to excel at! Come and pit your wits against other quizzers and raise money for the museum in the process. There will be Prizes for the winning team and also for the losing team (doughnuts being the losing prize of choice in the past!)
The evening will include cheese and biscuits and there will be a pay bar.
£5 per person ticket and they can be purchased from the museum gift shop or by calling 01376 325266. Tickets are limited and early booking is recommended.
About Braintree Museum
Braintree District Museum conserves and celebrates the history of Braintree and its surrounding areas, focusing on the District’s industrial and cultural achievements and its many notable personalities. The Museum’s main galleries chart the history of the town from the prehistoric era up to the 21st century, focusing on Braintree’s archaeology, industry and craftsmanship. Exhibits include arteifacts discovered in the local area, a dedicated area for Crittall Windows and exhibits that focus on the importance of both the Courtauld and Warner textile firms. For more information visit braintreemuseum.co.uk and follow us @museumbraintree on Twitter and on Facebook.
Braintree District Museum’s 2016 Spring Talk
Program
The museum is pleased to announce its program of talks for the start of 2016, with a mixture of lunchtime and afternoon offerings.
On Wednesday 27 January 2016 at 1pm the museum’s Education and Exhibitions Curator Jennifer Rowland will be starting off the season with a lunchtime talk on Braintree District and Essex’s role in the Magna Carta story. Did you know that four of the twenty-five key Magna Carta barons came from Essex, that there was one Essex baron, Hugh de Burgh of Rayleigh Castle, that remained loyal to King John, or that the whole of Essex was royal forest in 1215? Find out more in this talk, especially the role of local baron Robert de Vere of
Hedingham Castle. The talk will also
Late 12th Century garnet ring from explore what Braintree was like at the
Kelvedon on display in the Museum’s th
Magna Carta exhibition beginning of the 13 Century. Afterwards visitors are welcome to join the Curator for a free guided tour round the Magna Carta anniversary exhibition.
The former joinery company of Ripper’s
Ltd., Sible Hedingham, is the focus for
February. On Thursday 25 February at 2pm
Adrian Corder-Birch, President of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, will speak on the history of the company. This will be followed by our first reunion event for past employees of Ripper’s Ltd. and all
Items from the Museum’s Ripper
Collection
associated companies including Bowater Ripper Limited; Sarek Joinery Limited;
Crosby Sarek Limited; Norcross Limited; Premdor Crosby Limited; JSR Joinery Limited and C. R. Timber Limited. Other interested parties are also welcome to join us.
On Thursday 10 March we welcome Dr. David Rundle of the University of Essex to speak on the history of food. In a globalised economy where the supermarket can provide us with foodstuffs whatever the season and whatever their country of origin, we are liable to forget both how local food cultures can be and, equally, how longstanding the global transfer of food has been. Focusing on the 17th Century, discover more about what the English were really eating and the history of some of the
17th Century Delftware imported from foods we eat today. The talk starts at 1pm China on display in the Museum and is part of our Body Science program.
On Tuesday 19 April at 2pm Valerie and Jeff Wise will be exploring the history and development of windmills, their many uses, how they work, how to mill grain and the dangers for millers. The speakers have gained hands-on experience through volunteering at Heckington Mill in Lincolnshire, and will also cover Bocking,
Stock, Finchingfield, Thaxted and other
Braintree mills. To add to the experience,
BRNTM 2012.1.19 attendees will get the chance to try some
bread made with flour milled at the 13th Century Abbey Mill in Coggeshall.
Tickets for each talk are £3 and include light refreshments. To book a place on any of the talks, or for more information, please call the museum on 01376 328868 or email info@braintreemuseum.co.uk . Community transport is also available for all of our talks. For more information please call 01376 557883.
