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The list below details just some of the items on display at the museum. New displays for 2010 - Working loom - Map Room and study area - Extended display of school photographs and material about The Henry Box School (which is 350 years old this year) - Selection of locally hand made toys - See here for 2010 exhibition schedule Local industries and businesses - Blanket making - Glove making - Brewing - Bartlett's Builders (who operated from what is now the Museum building) Special displays - A selection of items from the Hickman Toy Collection - Reconstruction of a 1950's kitchen - Reconstruction of a Victorian schoolroom Life in Witney - Schools including many old photographs of pupils; Reconstruction of a Victorian schoolroom - Crime and punishment: the old town stocks - Places of worship - Shops and shopping Local buildings - Tithe map of Witney (1839) and Hailey (1840) and apportionments so you can find out who lived in each building - Many photographs of old buildings Witney District through the ages - Prehistoric times - selection of fossils - Romans - archaeological finds from within the district, including Northleigh Roman Villa - Saxons - follow the boundary of the AD 969 charter of Witney ... discover where Occa's slippery place was - Mediaeval - the Bishops' Palace and Minster Lovell Hall - Victorian - the industrial revolution, the coming of the railway War Time Witney - Witney aerodrome and de Havillands - Military History - The Home Front |
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