Home   

THE BALDOCK SOCIETY

About Us and Membership About Baldock and Gallery Town Monitoring Form Planning and Representations
Events Documents Local Groups Contact Us
 

Local Groups: Baldock Museum & Local History Society

 
< back to local groups
 
  Baldock Museum is based at Baldock Town Hall:

Hitchin Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, SG7 6AX

Opening times:
Wednesday 11.00am-1.30pm;
Sundays 2.00pm-4.00pm;

 
Groups may visit at other times by appointment. Admission costs 25p for adults.
 

There is a permanent display on the history of the town from Roman times to the present.

The museum has a number of local history books, booklets and transcripts of the displays on sale.
 

The Baldock Museum & Local History Society (BMLHS) researches, records, presents and promotes the history of Baldock and its locality and collects and displays items of local historical interest.

Membership of the BMLHS costs £3 for individuals and £5 for families.
Members have free entry to the talks and to the museum and receive two newsletters a year.


The BMLHS also organises talks on topics of local interest. 2008's programme is as follows:

Thursday 24th January “Norton: from Anglo Saxon times to the Dissolution of St Albans Abbey”
(The early history of our neighbouring village)
A talk by Deborah Giles

Thursday 27th March “Keeping the Peace, Law and Disorder in Medieval Baldock”
(Part 6 of the history of Baldock series)
A talk by Brendan King

Thursday 22nd May “Baldock’s Brewers 1750 - 1853”
(New research on the town’s brewing industry)
A talk by Jane Tunesi

Thursday 24th July “Local Archaeological Discoveries through Metal Detecting”
A talk by Dave Mance and Clive Leader

Thursday 24th September
AGM and Quiz Evening

Thursday 27th November “Archaeology of the Baldock Brewery Site”
A talk by David Hillelson


All talks start at 8.00pm and take place at Baldock Community Centre, Simpson Drive, SG7 6DH. All are welcome, non-members £1.00.


For more information, contact Brendan King (Chairman):
Oak House
22 Whitehorse Street
Baldock
Herts
SG7 6QQ

Phone: 01462 892640

 
< back to local groups
 

This page last updated on 16/03/2008 19:12

 
All Material Copyright © 2005-2008 Baldock Society All Rights Reserved unless otherwise stated click here to contact us