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A Brightlingsea Town Guide
Brightlingsea Museum
The Museum is open as follows:
Saturday 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Sunday and Mondays 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Last entry 45 minutes before closing.
A Celebration of Brightlingsea's past and present.
Brightlingsea Museum opens for the 2003 season on
Saturday 19 April following a winter when most of the displays have been renewed.
A major display gives an insight into how the people of Brightlingsea lived in Roman
times. From the evidence of central heating, glass in windows, decorated walls and the
wide range of of kitchen and tableware found locally it would seem local residents enjoyed
comfortable living.
Examples of all of these items are on display, taken from the Brightlingsea Museum
collection with the addition of important items from Colchester Museum. From Colchester
are pots dredged from the sea by Brightlingsea fishermen, and the very expensive food
mixer with a lion's head decoration which so impressed Dr Dicken in his 'History of
Brightlingsea' (1913 and 1939).
Other new displays include the shipbuilding and the oyster industry, the restoration of
the skillinger 'Pioneer', the Brightlingsea One Design, the Churches Together and shopping
in Brightlingsea 100 years ago. We are also pleased to include displays from two of the
towns most active organisations, Brightlingsea in Bloom and the Carnival Association.
All of this and our permanent exhibitions about our connections with the Cinque Ports and
the days of railway in Brightlingsea.
We also have a wide selection of videos of different events in the town, some of them
going back some while - are you in them?
Organisations and groups are most welcome to arrange private visits, when light
refreshments can be made available. Please contact Margaret Stone 01206 303286.
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