Thurrock Museum

05/01/2023

Marking the 70th anniversary of the '53 floods. Essex Fire Museum Thurrock

12/12/2022

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas from the Museum offices! ☃️❄

09/12/2022

Travel back in time to Christmas 1942. This FREE exhibition will be on until Thursday 5th January. Ground floor, Thameside Theatre Thurrock Thurrock Libraries Thameside Theatre

05/12/2022

We are having a Christmas open day on Sunday 18th December. If you would like to come along, please contact us via: [email protected] and tell us the number in your party and the time you would like to arrive. We are open from 10.00am to 3.00pm.
There will be Christmas trails, arts and crafts and lots to do for all the family. We have also been informed by Greenland HQ that Santa will be dropping in to meet everyone. 🌲🌲🎄

05/12/2022

Our first celebrity signature in our visitor's book! Russell Brand

02/12/2022

It's Christmas 2022!🎄 But what was Christmas like in 1942? Find out at the next volunteers' exhibition!

13/11/2022

We were so pleased to welcome Audrey and her son Colin to the Museum to look at our display. Audrey is the cousin of James (Jim) Bond who is featured on the poster for the display. Audrey was able to tell us about Jim's life and death - he was the first person who worked for the Council to be killed in WW2. Thank you Audrey and Colin.

11/11/2022

The volunteers pay tribute to the people of Thurrock who gave their lives for our freedom

04/11/2022

The volunteers' Armistice display is now up!
We were so pleased to be contacted by a couple of relatives of James Bond who is the man featured in the exhibition poster. They were able to give more information about James' life and death. Notably that he was the first Thurrock Council worker casualty of WW2. You can find out more about him by visiting the exhibition. Thank you to James' relatives for coming forward Thurrock

02/11/2022

The next exhibition by the Museum volunteers will mark Armistice and will be available to see for free from Saturday the 5th to 10am on Friday the 18th November

17/09/2022

Today we're at High House for their Heritage Open Day. The theme this year is 'Inventions' and we're displaying some prehistoric inventions. You can have a go at weaving your own mini mat and help us decide which was the most important prehistoric invention!

16/09/2022

Thank you to our volunteers for putting together this wonderful display of the Queen's life in pictures. You can see it as you come in to the Thameside Foyer.

09/09/2022

Our thoughts are with the Royal family at this sad time.

The end of an era, an unprecedented reign and a remarkable life. Rest in peace Your Majesty.

Image: The Queen receives flowers from local resident Colin Wade on her visit to Thurrock in the early 1980's. Image credit: Thurrrock Gazette & Colin Wade

06/09/2022

The next in the series of WW2 exhibitions is here! Upcoming exhibitions are also listed below.

03/09/2022

Essex Gardens Trust successfully bid for funding from the Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme to research sites of historic and local interest in Thurrock. The culmination of this is an inventory of these sites, useful to Thurrock planning authorities when making decisions which may affect the sites described, or their setting. The inventory has uncovered some fascinating stories and the current pandemic has given us a strong recognition of the pleasure and the healing power, both physical and mental, of open spaces and their importance in today’s society.
https://www.landofthefanns.org/unforgettable-landscapes-of-thurrock/

The Gardens Trust Thurrock Thurrock Museum Thurrock Local History Society National Lottery Heritage Fund Belhus Park Golf Course Orsett Hall Hotel Barnards Farm

03/09/2022

We're at the Orsett show! Come and find us in the heritage Zone marquee

16/08/2022

Essex Gardens Trust successfully bid for funding from the Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme to research sites of historic and local interest in Thurrock. The culmination of this is an inventory of these sites, useful to Thurrock planning authorities when making decisions which may affect the sites described, or their setting. The inventory has uncovered some fascinating stories and the current pandemic has given us a strong recognition of the pleasure and the healing power, both physical and mental, of open spaces and their importance in today’s society.
https://www.landofthefanns.org/unforgettable-landscapes-of-thurrock/

The Gardens Trust Thurrock Thurrock Museum Thurrock Local History Society National Lottery Heritage Fund Belhus Park Golf Course Orsett Hall Hotel Barnards Farm

03/08/2022

Thurrock Carers Service Carers Coffee Mornings have now changed venue.

If you are caring for someone pop along to Grays Park Cafe tomorrow at 10am to find out how they can support you.

29/07/2022

Someone's enjoying the new museum activity!

28/07/2022

We've got a little something to keep the kids and grandkids entertained this summer - and it's free! This activity can be found on the first floor of the Thameside Complex just outside the Museum entrance. Thameside Theatre Thurrock

22/07/2022

The latest in the series of WW2 exhibitions is up! Here 'till the 11am on 19 August

15/07/2022

This time next week the latest volunteer exhibition will be up!

07/07/2022

We all know about High House in Purfleet-on-Thames but did you know there was once a Low House? Eagle-eyed inventory staff member Kevin Diver spotted it in this map from the 1920s. The House was demolished in the '30s.

25/06/2022

We're at the Port of Tilbury open day today with our Windrush display. Hope to see you there!

16/06/2022

The Museum will be closed from Midday this Saturday (the 18th June) and will reopen on Monday at 9am. We apologise for any inconvenience.
The Jubilee display in the gallery will still be open to view.

14/06/2022

Thurrock Council on Twitter

Our Jubilee display is still up! Come and take a look

“The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations may feel like a distant memory but you can visit 's exhibition until 24 June. Volunteers Odette, Diane (pictured) and Pam put together the special exhibition. 👑 https://t.co/2HkzwQmba3 ”

09/06/2022

Here's what we found during our inventorying today. These are just some of the fascinating items from one box. Sadly we have no information about who they belonged to and when. More research will need to be done on this at a later date.
I particularly like this porcelain doll and the tiny leather gloves. Oh, and the fabric book! 😍

30/05/2022

Our Jubilee exhibition is all set up on the ground floor of the Thameside building. It'll be available to see until the 24 of June

19/05/2022

I'm glad the students enjoyed the workshop 😊

14/05/2022

Excellent news! See you there!

29/04/2022

Our 3 new created with funding from . Charting the Stone Age to Iron Age using real artefacts from the Museum! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped and to Jo Gillam for professional development support.

16/04/2022

In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service.

We will be celebrating with an exhibition, photographs and memorabilia

If you have your own photos of The Queen you would like to share for the Jubilee please contact [email protected]

Thurrock Museum Volunteers

10/04/2022

Timeline photos

As promised, we've opened up our mystery box!

You can see now that the odd shape of the box is because it was perfectly designed to fit Thomas Barrett-Lennard's grant of arms, including the two attached seals.

For anyone that didn’t find the relevant blog post, here’s where you can learn more about Thomas and why this particular document was so important to him: http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/favourite-ero-documents-grant-of-arms-to-thomas-barrett-leonard-formerly-thomas-thomas/

08/04/2022

Open Day 23rd April, 10-4. Come and join us and see lots more memories just like these!

30/03/2022

A busy day today at the Museum! Putting together our new school loans boxes and researching online resources, continuing our collections inventory and some Gazette investigations! Phew!

22/03/2022

We are looking for YOUR images for our Platinum Jubilee exhibition. Do you have a snap of the Queen in Thurrock or elsewhere? Get in touch: [email protected] or call 01375413965

20/03/2022

Cricket Fans! The latest find in our inventory of the Museum's collections. This certificate from 1931 has been signed by THE Jack Hobbs. Nicknamed 'The Master', he is seen by some to be one of the greatest batsmen.

17/03/2022

Let there be light! Thanks to Sean Crisp from the Theatre Tech team, the Museum's lighting has been vastly improved! It's hard to show this with photos so why not come and take a look for yourself? 😉