Colnbrook Museum

11/08/2023

More photos from the recent open days.

09/08/2023

A fire engine built in 1832 took pride of place at Colnbrook History Museum as it threw open its doors as part of the Colne Valley Festival Fortnight (July 22 to August 4).

31/07/2023

The fire engine in action!

31/07/2023

Putting our visitors to good use, they won’t need to go to the gym!

31/07/2023

Colnbrook Museum is open today from 10:00-16:00, serving refreshments in Colnbrook Village Hall.

29/07/2023

Car washing in action. 📹 Matt Copeland thank you.

29/07/2023

We’re open until 16.00 today and offering car washes with old fire tender. Also refreshments in Colnbrook Village Hall.

24/07/2023

Happy visitor from today. We appreciate your feedback.

24/07/2023

Success! We had a visitor today looking for a coroners report for a relative of his. With help from our friends on Colnbrook Village History Page we have managed to locate a copy.

If you need help with research please drop us a message and we will do our best to help.

24/07/2023

If you’ve been to the museum today or have an interest in Colnbrook history please join the Colnbrook Village History Page.

24/07/2023

The fire engine’s out of the shed and we are open!

23/07/2023

Reminder the museum will be open 10:00- 16:00 tomorrow as part of Colne Valley Festival Fortnight.

23/06/2023

05/04/2023

Look what popped up in the app Findmyphone!

30/08/2022

REQUEST FROM THE 'COLNBROOK VILLAGE HISTORY PAGE'

Do you have a load of paperwork, photos or items like this that relate to Colnbrook ?

If you have/had relatives in Colnbrook we would love to see & share your family information. It may not look like much to you but to us it’s gold dust!

If your family are not particularly interested in their family history then please pass it us and we will keep your family memories alive via our history page & museum. Please Contact Dawn Tedder

Huge thanks to Chris Brown for this fantastic lot.

13/04/2022

Members of the Colnbrook Village History group at Museum this morning. Thank you to Brenda for opening up for us. Lovely to see you all.

09/04/2022

🌸Thank you & Review from local group 🌸

Well, what a lovely way to spend a wet Monday morning!
Thank you to you (Peter) and Dave and also to the staff at the coffee morning for hosting some of the members of the Slough u3a Local History group. Everyone seems to have really enjoyed our visit and I am sure we have all learned a lot.
Many thanks for giving up your time to show us around-and thank you too for the booklet that I will enjoy reading and is a useful addition to our group resources.

Slough u3a Local History group

05/04/2022

Son et Lumiere- Video from recent event, this one was projected onto side of museum 25 March 2022

25/03/2022

Projection onto wall of Village Hall of images created by villagers. Artist Wil Lindley created video

13/03/2022

Drawing at church ready for Son et Lumiere event at museum on 25th March

17/01/2022

I’ve been sitting in the museum doing some research for the Colnbrook Village History page and came across these newspaper clippings when the museum was still an idea……

If you would like to do some research into Colnbrook’s history or residents then drop an email to [email protected] to arrange an appointment.

02/12/2021

Museum open for visits on Monday 13th December as part of Village Hall coffee morning. Come and see us!

11/11/2021

Thank you Brian Moriarty for your review. Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you also to Pete Hood for showing him around.

03/11/2021

Please come along and have a coffee at the Village Hall and combine it with a visit.

28/10/2021

If you have some spare time we are always looking for volunteers. All sorts of requirements from gardening to DIY to cleaning to showing people around. You can volunteer on a one off basis if you can’t commit to a regular thing.

We are compiling a register of volunteers who we can call on when we need help so if you are interested please let us know.

You can email [email protected] or message us on Facebook messenger.

Thank you in advance.

28/10/2021

A quick post to recognise and thank Dave & Maureen Bradbury who clean the museum for us regularly. Dave is an ex-fireman who enjoys looking after our fire engine keeping the brass polished. We are very grateful to both of them for volunteering their time.

04/10/2021

Thank you to all those who popped into the museum this morning. Attendees at the Colnbrook Village Hall coffee morning were able to view exhibits at the same time.

If you did visit please take a minute to leave a review. Thank you.

It’s hoped this may be a regular thing so we will keep you updated.

11/09/2021

If you’d like to visit please email us for an appointment [email protected]

25/08/2021

The Summer 2021 Parish Council newsletter is being delivered to local residents. We’re featured on pages 28 & 29 in an article written by Peter Hood.

07/08/2021

If you’ve organised your viewing and had your visit we welcome all feedback. Please leave us a review on this page.

Thanking you in advance.

21/07/2021

Good news everyone. The Museum is now officially open. If you would like to arrange an appointment to visit you can do this through our email [email protected]. Please allow plenty of time as we are a small team who help out around our other commitments.

At the moment we have just a few dedicated volunteers but we can accomodate bookings of up to 8 people.

We look forward to welcoming you.

29/06/2021

06/03/2021

Been out collecting items for display over last few days. Variety of things made of wood, leather, paper and material. Sorry no sneak peeks you will have to come and visit!

Thank you to Gavin Bartlett Albie Blackman Kevin Gorman and Andrew Fisher.

28/02/2021

If you have offered items for display in the museum please contact us to arrange delivery/ collection as exhibits are being organised now. Please don’t wait until the museum is open, planning the space is key.
Thank you

19/02/2021

We are now compiling volunteer lists so please get in touch if you would like to help.

👫👫👫👫VOLUNTEERS WANTED👫👫👫👫

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact us by pushing the blue “send message” button at the top of the page.

We will need assistance with any or all of the following:

* Looking after exhibits and providing information
* Greeting visitors and sharing village knowledge
* Setting up exhibits and displays
* Administrative duties
* Helping arrange school/group visits
* Opening and closing/security of museum
* Cleaning/light gardening

We will provide training to you all, great way to get to know your fellow villagers!

19/02/2021

We’ve had some great items so far but always looking for more! Please don’t wait until we are open as we need to stage the items before then and plan our space.

If you have something that you think might be of interest however small please get in touch. Newspaper cuttings, postcards, books, photos, maps also welcome.

Thank you to all those who have been in touch.

We are now looking for photos, newspaper cuttings, artefacts and stories for the museum. If you can help please contact Peter Hood, chairman on 07979 366092 or email [email protected].

Thank you for your support.