Collection: Thorney Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection history (Collection development policy)

  Thorney Heritage Museum (then known as Thorney Heritage Centre) was opened in 1987 by the Thorney Society. It is housed in a Victorian house, part of the Tankyard buildings, in what was the industrial centre of the nineteenth century Thorney estate. Family materials, especially photographs, were donated by many people from the mid-1980s. The Cave family have made a particular contribution. Special models were made for the Museum in the 1980s and early 1990s, and contemporary collecting of materials was also instituted then.

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2018

  Licence: CC BY-NC

• Collection overview (Collection development policy)

  The existing collection largely consists of original photographs and reproductions of photographs, along with other documentary and archive material, such as maps and local commercial ephemera. There are a range of items associated with Thorney’s agricultural history, such as tools, and some items recovered from the local area such as coins and tokens. The collection is currently being expanded through donations from local people, and through the development of documentation of the contemporary village (particularly the FocUS 2000 collection of photographs). Around 75% of the accessioned items are photographs or copies of photographs. There are also a selection of books, a few archaeological items and a small amount of textile material. Administrative records from the twentieth century have been donated, as has material relating to the First and Second World Wars.

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2018

  Licence: CC BY-NC