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Description: | -The social history collections reflect local life. They include domestic items displayed in reconstructed room settings, washing & laundry equipment, blacksmith's and wheelwright's tools, plumbing and carpentry equipment, education, village shop and an Edwardian revolving summerhouse.;The collections include garage and motoring equipment and the reconstructed cab of a 'Burwell and District bus.;The agricultural collections include hand tools and machinery such as tractors, seed drills, ploughs and wagons, all from the local area. ;The museum collections include memorabilia from both the First and the Second World Wars.;Military uniforms from the Second World War.;Working automatic telephone exchange from the 1950's/60's.;The small archaeology collection includes a reconstruction of Roman pottery kiln from near Huntingdon and an Anglo-Saxon skeleton from Burwell.;The Burwell Photographic Archive contains several hundred images of activities, people, events and buildings from 1900-1999. The museum also shows videos of archive film from East Anglia.;The archive collection includes old maps of Burwell.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Mill Close
Burwell Cambridgeshire United Kingdom | FAX: | 0871 661 5378 | Telephone: | 01638 605544 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6286 | Go to resource |
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