- Wikidata identifier:
- Q85830479
- Instance of:
- local museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1474
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q85830479/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Archaeology
Evidence of human settlement and activity from the Palaeolithic through to the present day. Significant excavation archives are: The Town Mead Hoard (Iron Age); Abridge Villa (Roman); Nazeing Hoard (Saxon) and Waltham Abbey Church (Medieval and Post-Medieval.
Fine and Decorative Art
Police uniforms, wedding dresses and christening robes are well represented in the costume collection. In addition, there is a small collection of fashion accessories, including fans and jewellery. The small textile collection includes samplers, banners and lace. The collections include a wide variety of visual and applied art- paintings, prints, sketchbooks, sculpture and ceramics. Either the artist or the subject matter has a connection with the historic county of Essex. Significant collections of work by Walter Spradbery and Haydn Mackey.;Small collection of ethnography from Asia and Africa, collected by the Buxton Family of Warlies in Waltham Abbey.
Photography
The museum holds a collection of approximately 5,000 photographs of the district, including the Francis Frith Collection and the Waltham Abbey Historical Society Collection.
Archives
The Police Archives contains photographs as well as documents. The most significant item in the museum archive collection is the Waltham Abbey Bible from c.1200. The museum holds an extensive archive of local newspapers covering most of the 20th century, a comprehensive set of maps of the area, including the 1897 and 1923 series of Ordnance Survey maps, and printed ephemera such as letter heads and property details, from the 19th and 20th centuries. There is an extensive archive relating to local policing from 1800 to 2001. “The Police Archives held by Epping Forest District Museum includes material from the Waltham Abbey Police Historical Collection and the Waltham Abbey Historical Society. Together they document the story of policing from 1800-2001. The collections include a large photographic and documentary archive covering the Metropolitan Police from 1820 -2000. Areas covered include Abridge, Bethnal Green, Chadwell Heath, Cheshunt, Chigwell, Claybury, Chingford, Dalston, Enfield, Epping, Hackney, Leyton, Leytonstone, Loughton, Nazeing, Waltham Abbey, Walthamstow, Wanstead and Woodford.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC