Open Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10.00am - 12.30pm
Collections Description
Rothwell is a typical market-town with connections back to the Domesday Book and Anciet Charter for fair and market granted by King John. The collections consist mainly items donated from localresidents which reflect the town's agricultural, industrial, social and cultural past.
A display showing the tools and working practices of the past boot and shoe trade in the town and another of ironstone quarrying with steam engines carrying the ore to furnaces in Kettering and Corby.
Artefacts and pictures of William Ball works relating to his famous award winning plough and other agricultural implements
Permanent Exhibitions
Rothwell from The Bronze Age to the 20th Century -
we are working towards a display covering the rear and side walls
showing the evolution of the settlements on this site [ground floor]
Rothwell’s Boot and Shoe
Industry – Taylors
factory – Last and Making Room – finishing Dept and Shoe
Room [first floor]
The Buswells - starting from 1850
- years of change at 14-16 Bridge Street - Buswell family archive
[first floor]
Rothwell School Photographs are now downstairs
in a folderwith Family History in Local Resources.
Agriculture
Archaeology
Archives
Coins and Medals
Costume and Textiles
Local Industries
Social History
Toys and Hobbies
Wartime Memorabilia
Family History Research
Local events such as "Rowell Fair"
Other displays reflect the East Midlands Region as a gateway to Rockingham Forest.
14—16 Bridge Street, Rothwell, Northants, NN14 6JW
PHONE: 01536 711550
Email: manager@rothwellheritage.org.uk
