2023 Photographic Competition
Why not enter our photographic Competition for a chance to win a high spec camera. No complicated rules just submit a photograph you have taken between the 6th March 2023 and the 3rd April 2023 of a building or place that you think best represents Redditch local history. The winning photograph will be decided by the Mayor ...
2023 Easter Egg Hunt
Come and join us on Good Friday, 7th April for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Give-away. We have only 100 eggs to give away so be early to get yours. We are open from 10:00am to 4:00pm
March Museum Window Displays
The new window displays up. Big thanks to Janet Fryer, our Art team leader
Carnival Film Show
This Saturday, 4th March, we are supporting Redditch Carnival, by holding a historic film show of Redditch Carnival’s past. The show is at 24 Walford Walk (opposite Clintons Cards) in the Kingfisher Centre from 10:00am to 5:00pm, Free to come in, just drop in any time and we will be showing films continuously all ...
Donated Domesday Book
Another recent anonymous donation, a numbered, special edition of the Domsday Book featuring Worcestershire. Lovely presentation in a display box with a superb set of bound volumes inside. Obviously available for research but we would like to put on display if we had the room and facilities to protect it.
Even more reasons not to be missed
In addition to the previously broadcast events at the Library on the 31st of January, there will now be a second showing of the 1957 film at 12:30 preceded by another Local History drop in exhibition featuring local groups and individual historians. The event now start at 9:30 so please come along and see more artefacts ...
An event not to be missed
Work cataloguing the artefacts in Redditch Library recently uncovered a colour file of everyday live in Redditch in 1957. When this film was last seen, if at all, is not known. The Redditch Local History Museum were asked to help trace the history of the film and to do that we arranged it to be digitised ...
Access to the Heritage Library collection
The history and heritage of Redditch has been the subject of hundreds of books and documents over the years. We are attempting to collect as many of these documents as possible. The collection with have is housed in a section of the museum which we have entitled “The Anne Braford Heritage Library” in recognition of the ...
Seasons Greetings
The trustees and volunteers at the Redditch Local History museum would like to take this opportunity to thank all the visitors, donors, contributors and supporters who have helped us in 2022 to pursue our mission of saving Redditch history and heritage 2022 saw the first anniversary of opening the museum in November. So as we ...
A Portrait Of Redditch in 1957
As part of their work in the Library Archives, Library volunteers uncovered a 1957 16mm cine film which no one can remember being shown. Working with the Redditch Local History Museum volunteers, this film has no been professionally digitised and for the first time in 65 years it is ready to be shown to Redditch residents. That ...