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Issue no 459 March 11th 2017
Sheringham Museum discovers human bone fragment in sealed envelope in forgotten First World War scrapbook kept by former town resident Doris Hewitt Local vets kindly xrayed it to prove authenticity of envelope contents. Sheringham Museum has uncovered a surprise in a forgotten piece of its collection re-discovered during an archive store move project.
Simply listed in the museum collections database as ‘newspaper scrapbooks’ it was overlooked for 25 years. The museum has since found that the ‘scrapbooks’ were in fact five volumes of newspaper cuttings and mementos spanning the full 1914 – 1918 First World War painstakingly collected by Doris Hewitt, Sister
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to Cecil Hewitt a disabled photographer whose glass plate negatives came to light in January 2013 at the museum. This new discovery was donated to the museum long before the Hewitt Glass plate negatives and provides a new piece to the puzzle of this fascinating Edwardian Family who lived in the town during the early 1900s.
The scrapbooks ended up being stored in Sheringham Town Hall attic, which was being used as an overflow of the museum store which was at capacity.
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