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Blake Museum Collections

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textiles

archives

Electors Lists

numismatics

Baird Collection

Library

people

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Monmouth

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Irene

Docks

archaeology

Samian

Roman Spaxton

photography

Photographers

art

Oil portraits

Medieval Tiles

Entertainment

1927 Pageant

Brooches

Bridgwater Tapestry

The Museum has acquired items originating from, used in, or having connections with, principally, but not exclusively the Town of Bridgwater and the parishes of the former Rural District [map] comprising: Ashcott, Bawdrip, Bridgwater, Bridgwater Without, Broomfield, Burtle, Cannington, Catcott, Chedzoy, Chilton Polden, Chilton Trinity, Cossington, Durleigh, East Huntspill, Edington, Enmore, Fiddington, Goathurst, Greinton, Lyng, Middlezoy, Moorlinch, Nether Stowey, North Petherton, Othery, Otterhampton, Over Stowey, Pawlett, Puriton, Shapwick, Spaxton, Stawell, Stockland Bristol, Thurloxton, Wembdon, West Huntspill, Westonzoyland, Woolavington and, in the District of West Somerset, Stogursey. The Museum has also collected items relating to Burnham and Highbridge Carnival which relate to Bridgwater Carnival Clubs; many of these items are on loan to The Carnival Centre in the High Street.

• to rescue from loss and destruction the relics of our ancestors;
  
• to collect, conserve and to show relics of history relating (principally but not exclusively) to Bridgwater and its immediate surroundings;
  
• to show visitors that Bridgwater is not indifferent to its own history;
  
• to interest visitors in what has happened in Bridgwater since it was granted its first Royal Charter in the reign of King John;
  
• to give the townspeople of Bridgwater pride in their past;
  
• to reveal that great events have taken place within the town and adjacent areas and set them in the context of the history of England;
  
• to honour the lives of great men and women who have lived or been associated with the town, and, in particular but not exclusively, Robert Blake.