Royston & District
Museum & Art Gallery

5 Lower King Street, Royston, Hertfordshire  SG8 5AL

 
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LINKS
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Click to visit Royston Town Council

Royston Town Council Official Website
Gives a brief history of Royston, together with details of Council meetings and agendas. Also  information about  Staff, Councillors, town events, town-twinning, etc.

Click to visit Royston Cave

Royston Cave
Details of the unique Royston Cave, which is a man-made, beehive-shaped cavern with a series of carvings in the chalk.  It is thought to have been connected with the Knights Templar and can be visited at weekends during the summer months.

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Royston First
Information about business matters in the town - plans for the extension and improvement  of the town centre and its amenities.    


Museums in Hertfordshire
Provides an index of all museums in Hertfordshire, with useful links to related websites.


Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery
Displays include a reconstructed Victorian chemist's shop, a costume gallery and a garden of  medicinal plants. Temporary exhibitions and events held regularly.

Letchworth Museum


Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery
Includes displays of Natural History and  Archaeology, particularly of the Iron Age and Roman periods. The Fine Art collection concentrates on local artists, notably William Ratcliffe.

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Royston and District Local History Society
A non profit-making society whose objectives are to record and preserve the local history of Royston and the surrounding area and to raise the level of public interest in it;  to contribute to the growth of the museum;  to maintain and preserve the Royston Cave.

The British Association of Friends of Museums
A national organisation dedicated to helping museum Friends and Volunteers

The Royston CrowThe Royston Crow
The town newspaper for Royston since 1855, back copies of which may be accessed at the Royston Museum and the local library.

The 91st Bomb Group
This site is dedicated to the Americans who were based at Bassingbourn during World War II and contains many individual accounts of life at Bassingbourn and Royston during the early 1940s.  The building which now houses the Royston and District Museum was originally the Congregational Church Schoolroom but during the war was taken over to be the American Air Force social club.
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The Royston Arts Festival
The Royston Arts Festival is a four=day arts festival celebrating the town's finest artists, writers, musicians  and actors.  It is run by the people of Royston, Hertfordshire, over a single weekend in September.                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Bows and Arrows
Ken Robins of Bows and Arrows is a fully qualified archery coach and will organise tuition sessions both for individuals and groups.  He has a full-size field archery course 10 miles from Ipswich but can also supply a mobile archery service in Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

                                                                                                             

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E2BN Gallery
The E2BN Gallery is a growing collection of image, audio and video resources covering a range of topics relevant to the curriculum.  Its purpose is to provide a free repository of high quality materials copyright cleared for use in teaching and learning.

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Tel: 01 799 530 534     Fax: 07 092 392 759

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Other Websites

Hedgerow Publishing Limited
Ancient Craft

  

Publishers of customised stationery and small gifts of good quality
A website based on the interests and achievements of  James Dilley, Young Archaeologist of the Year in 2007.

   

Tel:  01763 242587        Email the Museum Curator