Ingatestone Museum Trust is a registered charity which has been established to oversee the management and day to day running of Ingatestone Museum .
The Ingatestone Museum Trust and Greater Anglia have signed the lease for the Gatekeeper's cottage and interior renovations will soon be start.
This is very much a local. community museum. Our dual aims are to preserve one of the few Gatekeeper's cottages left in England and to open a local, accessible museum. We intend to have displays showing the development of Ingatestone and Fryerning from the original stones onward! This will include the particular importance of the stagecoach and railway to our area.
We are working in liaison with local organizations to develop an oral/visual record/data base of living here in bygone times.
As part of our community links we would hope to have changing displays linking to local school curricula, for example displays showing evacuee memories and photos of the villages during the Second World War when this is studied locally.
It is hoped local organizations/societies may wish to have changing art and photographic displays within the museum. Many thanks to all the local organizations and residents for their help and input into this project.
Thank you to the Mayor of Brentwood, Cllr Gareth Barrett, for his great interest in the project. Trustees met him at the museum display at the Ingatestone Summer Show. The museum display showed the progress made so far and encouraged support for the project by donations, volunteering etc. Many thanks to The Arts Society, Brentwood District, for their kind donation. This will be used to purchase art /photo display rails in the entry room to showcase local school and club works.
The Trust is also very grateful to Essex Heritage Trust for its grant which will be used to purchase display cabinets and materials in the museum. This support is very much appreciated.
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parish photos with permission of ingatestone & fryerning archaeological & historical association
black and white rail photographs Reproduced with permission of the Great Eastern Railway Society. www.gersociety.org.uk
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