WELCOME TO INGATESTONE MUSEUM Gatekeeper's Cottage Station Lane
Charity No. 1193922
Patron Lord Petre
visit INGATESTONE mUSEUM
Do/did you go to school in Ingatestone? Come and see our new exhibition about education in the parish. What did they study in the 1900s? Where was the original Infants' School? Find out about the history of the Parish from the Romans on. Follow the trail of Ruffles the Railway Cat. Come and see our new photographic display by Ingatestone & District Camera Club. Free entry - although donations are always welcome!
OPEN
Friday 20th March 10-12
Saturday 21st March 10-12
Friday 20th March 10-12
Saturday 21st March 10-12
Groups are very welcome, please email to arrange a day and time to visit;
PARKING NCP charging car park , ticket machine by the station.
Photo: Education Display
Visiting the Museum
Inside the Museum:
Entrance Room
The entrance room, originally the kitchen, is the welcome point, with a video showing how life has changed in the parish, based on the work of the late David Abrey. There are research materials, books and scanned documents for anyone interested in finding out more about the area. Come and see the changing display of local art and photographic works and a permanent display of how our museum came about.
Main Room
The main room was the living room. Discover local artefacts from the Romans on the history of the Cottage and how we used to live. See the changing display board here, presently showing education in the parish -from the first school in the 1830s to the first Infants, Junior Boys' and Girls' schools to the Infant and Juniors today. Follow the road from the Secondary Modern School to the Anglo European.
Back Room
The back room was the bedroom. Here find the scene around the fireplace of life in the late 1950s -when the cottage was last inhabited. The rail diorama -beautifully produced by the Mid Essex Model Railway Club- also shows Ingatestone Station as it would have been in the late 50s. Find out here about the importance of the stagecoach and see the display of our postal heritage, from the days of The Spread Eagle Posting House in the 1870s..
DISPLAYS- STILL SEARCHING FOR:
Cartwheel, 1950s wireless , old pastry brushes for dig trays, information on schools in the parish
Photo: Ingatestone & District Camera Club Display
'Welcome' Volunteers and Trustee Vacancies for the Museum
Trustee Vacancy.
Ingatestone Museum is volunteer run and operated and many volunteers have helped us along our journey. We are very much a team and we have worked together to restore the cottage and create the community museum.
Now the Museum is up and running we are looking for two more trustees to help. Trustees can focus on areas of interest , such as:
- the day to day running of the museum,
- maintaining and extending the displays
- restoring and maintaining the building,
- keeping the accounts
'Welcome' Volunteers
Can you spare 2 hours a month to welcome visitors? Show them the museum? There are always 2 volunteers at a museum opening and full training is given
If you would be interested in either of these roles, or would like any further details, please email imt.secretary1@gmail.com
Photo: Volunteers on display unit assembly day.
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