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Description: | The main part of Bexley Museums' collection is made up of about 50,000 historical items from the Bexley area. This includes groups covering the home, industry, public services, farming,commercial life and clothing.
Local industries represented include textile printing and instrument making in 19th and 20th century Crayford, and 20th centuyr industries iof Erith, Belvedere anbd Foots Cray especially toy and cable manufacture, and the production of borax, vegetable oil and plywood, and electronics, all industries which have declined dramatically in the later 20th century. A large collection of about 60 sewing machines includes some made by Vickers at Crayford. Domestic items from the early 20th centuryand the 1930s are well represented, as are items reklating to civilian life during World War 2, icnluding air raid shelters and part of the PLUTO pipleine made at Erith. Agricultural collections include a farm waggon. Much rural life material came to the museum in the 1970s from the Bexley Traditional Crafts Society. The clothing collection comprises several hundred items, mainly chilrden's and women's clothing and accessories of the 19th and 20th centuries but also including civic robes from the pre 1965 local authorities and a court presentation dress.There are also fashion plates and illustrations. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Bexley Heritage Trust
Hall Place, Bourne Road, Bexley Kent Great Britain (UK),
DA5 1PQ | FAX: | 01322 522921 | Telephone: | 01322 526574 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5157 | Go to resource |
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