A letter
to
the
Editor By Dr Peter
is
too
:; •ew photographs
: expect
of
•-
it
Museum of wishing
try
confine
leaflet oration Avoncrott •
a
would
site
on
otherwise
:·tion
ed
from
roducing Quite shop,
There
the
stood as
is
in
the
chainmakers,
Avoncroft -raising
y_e
began been
at
about
You might
of
the
the
museum·,
be interested
Museum, and also
basic
its
existance
rebuilt
in
a number
on account
of
1967,
of
consists
old
neglect
buildings and disuse,
and so on.
"trade
mark"
now on the
building,
road
of
the
museum.
museum site,
it
is
The windmill working
was
most -·ays,
one time
inn
named "The String
farm
room,
of Horses",
lecture
room,
and had to be taken
improvements. buildings, is
nearby.
There
and others
the
merchants
are
also
are
in
house, several
workshops,
projects
from
near
-one of
and the
a
the
pipe-line.
15th.century, industrial
and a rack
of
last
which
once
exhibits,
saw, all
reconstruction
make way tor
to be demolished charity,
workers, sponsors
· became involved
three
years
:o
gave
me the
trouble,
the
to
registered
part-time finding
include
Tel ford,
the
Museum is
workers,
heart
plan
to posterity
building
completed
"Pre-tab"
ntary
which have
and nail-makers
( removed
century
here
fully
such equiped
order.
Recently
,
of
Bromsgrove,
ice-house
is
it
flour.
frame
and in working
not,
Summer Exhibition)
information
essentials.
has a site
the
and,
the
a group
timber
in case
now provides admin. offices, exhibition museum. It used to stand in Shrewsbury,
down to make way tor
Another
bare
new projects,
16th.century
tor
the
there
become
ground
so called,
etc.,
to
have been lost
has
a large
and still
just
(A&H Group
pages and pages of
Buildings, which
dereliction,
stone
but
exhibits
the exhibits.
to make way tor
e windmill -esc
"PROOF" ?l the
which
some of
Museum of
17 acre
--:c
:e
you with
my remarks
(enclosed),
about
(tor
some of
ARPS.Evesham.Worcs.
Buildings.
to bore
to
late,
G.H.Polli.tt
and for
ago.
an
18th.century and a 20th.
in Birmingham. and
the
of
the motorway),
efforts
therefore of
relies
its
heavily
Committee
in
on fund-
projects. Premature
time
retirement
from medical
to once more study
seriously
practice
my life
long
y - photography. The Museum had just lost a staff member who had been doing -,e o otography, and my otter of taking this over was accepted. : ..,a..,e found it most interesting, and much more varied than I ever expected. :: ~as increased my knowledge of a number of subjects, not the least being that • o o ography ! Not only are photographs required for records, but also for ::,-ogress
:~a, a ~ere
report ich
ont'
5,
newsletters,
.... ould
special details, ecessary,
expectand
brochures, old
stages
buildings of
explanatory in
reconstruction,
situ,
"boards". stages illustrating
of
And the
also
special cont:
all
dismantling skills
on pp21
