Castles in the Sea
One of the larger items in our collections is a name board from a ship, HMS Oakham Castle. HMS Oakham Castle was built by A. & J. Inglis in Glasgow. …
George Hibbitt Ploughing Cup
This beautiful Queen Anne style Britannia silver cup with cover was made by Robert Timbrell and Joseph Bell in London 1709. So why do we have it here in Rutland …
Time Gentlemen Please!!
One of the many economic casualties of the pandemic has been the threatened closure of local pubs. Life for landlords and landladies has been particularly uncertain. Many have coped by …
Pulp Faction
We have a couple of items in our Collections made of a now largely forgotten material called Thetford Pulp Ware. The Patent Pulp Manufacturing Co was founded in 1879. They …
Going Up in the World
Recent work in our Collections revealed a small, but interesting, collection of pattens. This is a word which is probably unfamiliar to many people, as pattens are not in common …
Picture This
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is a well known phrase, reportedly first used by Frederick R. Barnard, in Printer’s Ink (December, 1921), commenting that an image can explain …
The Tip of the Iceberg?
All Museums have a store of objects which are not on display to the public at any given time. Generally the larger the Museum the smaller the percentage actually on …
Meet Cherry
Cherry was donated to the Museum in 1989 by Helen Laurance in memory of her husband David. A treasured family possession, Cherry was well loved and used with mane and …