Wotton Heritage Centre

Wotton Heritage Centre The official page of Wotton Under Edge's Heritage Centre.

Thanks to Clare Allen for these additional pictures of the procession for Wotton Pride.
15/06/2025

Thanks to Clare Allen for these additional pictures of the procession for Wotton Pride.

A special day with Wotton Pride, a fun procession, great entertainment on a happy summers' day. Well done to all those i...
14/06/2025

A special day with Wotton Pride, a fun procession, great entertainment on a happy summers' day. Well done to all those involved in putting it together...in particular Becky and all the sponsors.

The Old Town Meeting House around 1900
08/06/2025

The Old Town Meeting House around 1900

Evidence that the Historical Society started 80 years ago with a letter of how to start a society from South Australia. ...
06/06/2025

Evidence that the Historical Society started 80 years ago with a letter of how to start a society from South Australia. The late John Grimes was present at that meeting with other notable members.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!On Saturday 14th June there is a special Pride Day Town Hall Tea supported by The Keepers - Wotton Area...
05/06/2025

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
On Saturday 14th June there is a special Pride Day Town Hall Tea supported by The Keepers - Wotton Area Community Hub.

On Sunday 15th June, we are looking for a group to run a Town Hall Tea as we have been let down at the last minute and need a substitute. If you are interested, please contact Janet at the Heritage Centre on [email protected].

The picture is of a budding Town Crier George Carpenter in the early 1970s.

Picture taken after 1920..... Remembrance Day perhaps?
05/06/2025

Picture taken after 1920..... Remembrance Day perhaps?

Our thanks to Karl Monks and the Cotswolds Metal Detecting Community for their very kind donation of £50 which will be i...
01/06/2025

Our thanks to Karl Monks and the Cotswolds Metal Detecting Community for their very kind donation of £50 which will be invested in a stand for our interactive PC display coming soon.
Karl started detecting nearly three years ago and has since established the Cotswold Metal Detecting Community (CMDC) which has more than 130 members.

On Friday 23rd May 2025, we held a well-attended Annual General Meeting. The committee of Trustees was re-elected which ...
25/05/2025

On Friday 23rd May 2025, we held a well-attended Annual General Meeting. The committee of Trustees was re-elected which welcomed two new co-opted members. We celebrated 80 years as a Historical Society and were treated to a talk by Mark Woolfrey on our Tolsey Clock and its restoration. Did you know there has been a clock on the Tolsey building since around 1850 and it was first located in the pergola on the top? No photo sadly but here are more recent pictures.

Discovering our local history can be part of volunteering here in the Heritage Centre. Visitors are enthralled by our collection and the town we live in. Please give some thought to joining us and taking the Heritage Centre forward into the future.

Today we had the pleasure of showing British School Years 1 and 2 students around the Heritage Centre. They were fascina...
14/05/2025

Today we had the pleasure of showing British School Years 1 and 2 students around the Heritage Centre. They were fascinated by the Victorian History of their own school and its first Headmaster Sir Isaac Pitman who has a display of his own in the Museum. They were well behaved and curious which is always a delight in a museum environment. We hope they will come back with their families sometime soon.

Sir Isaac Pitman was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1894. He was a resident in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, for three years where he started his own school. In 1839 he moved to Bath where he also opened a small school.
https://www.wottonheritage.com/issac-pitman-3-years-in-wotton-e68

Perry & Dawes Almshouses in Church Street in the early 1900's
14/05/2025

Perry & Dawes Almshouses in Church Street in the early 1900's

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The Chipping
Wotton-Under-Edge
GL127AD

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Monday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Saturday 10:30am - 3:30pm

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