Blandford Town Museum

Upcoming events at Blandford Town Museum

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Blandford Heritage Walk

Discover some of the history of our unique Georgian town with town guides from the Blandford Civic Society. Heritage walks tell the story of the town up to the Georgian rebuilding of the town centre. Meet at the flood wall in the Marsh & Ham car park behind Morrisons. The Walk starts at 11 am and lasts approximately two hours. There is no charge, but donations are welcome! There’s no need to book, but for more details contact Nicci Brown (details below). For more information about the activities of the Civic Society, please visit their Group page.

Sun 12 Apr11:00Blandford Town Museum

via Blandford Town Museum

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Friday Talk: The history and craft of Rushwork on the River Stour

In this illustrated talk, Anna Lewington will give an overview of the history of rush cutting and rushwork as practised historically on the River Stour in the vicinity of Marnhull. She will also describe the project ‘RushWorks’ she set up in 2006 in order to try and keep the local knowledge and practise of working with rushes alive, an activity still continued today with an annual rush harvest and workshops run from her home in Sturminster Newton. Anna is an ethnobotanist and writer who has been researching and writing about importance of plants to people for many years. Her interest developed as an undergraduate student and led to her study of Amerindian languages and culture at St Andrews university, and her thesis on the importance of the root crop manioc to the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. She is the author of two editions of ‘Plants For People’, a comprehensive study of the ways in which products from plants support our daily lives, first written at the invitation of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and subsequently described as ‘a complete inspiration to the Eden Project’.

Fri 24 Apr19:30Blandford Town Museum

via Blandford Town Museum

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Blandford Perimeter Walk

Discover some of the history of our unique Georgian town with town guides from the Blandford Civic Society. Perimeter walks show how Blandford has developed since it was rebuilt following the Great Fire. The Walk starts at 11 am and lasts approximately two hours. There is no charge, but donations are welcome! There’s no need to book, but for more details contact Nicci Brown (details below). For more information about the activities of the Civic Society, please visit their Group page.

Sun 26 Apr11:00Blandford Town Museum

via Blandford Town Museum

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