Emsworth Museum holds over 10,000 items and the details of many of these items can be searched for on this site. More than 2000 photographs can be viewed of which more than 1100 are high resolution scans of our photograph collection. There are also many audio recordings and videos in our collection.
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Featured Item
Postcard, monochrome.
Depicting the front of E.A. Stevens Greengrocer and General Stores of North Street, Emsworth showing two ladies in the entrance one of whom is Mrs Ada…
Featured Collection
Research Archive
Collection of Texts mostly held in the Archive
Room including People Archive, Streets and Trade Directories
Featured Exhibit
PG Wodehouse
Not only did PG Wodehouse live in Emsworth and number of the characters in his books are associated with the...
Recently Added Items
Print: 'Assembling a Bearing'
Digital fibre print, monochrome. 45 cm x 59 cm. Framed. This was taken at the British Timken plant in Daventry in 1957. Two workers lower the outer…
Photograph of North Street cottages, site of Emsworth Poor House/Workhouse.
Monochrome, 10 cm x 7.5 cm. Shows Arthur Tier, Builder & Decorator next door, c.1950
Prayer Book.
PRAYERS for the Poor to use in Private. Eighth edition. 13 cm height, 6.5 cm width. In poor condition. Ten pages loosely and crudely stitched…
Emsworth Sailing School
History of the Emsworth Sailing School from its inception by Crab Searl in 1958 to 1988
Jeeves: Man and Myth
Percy Jeeves was a professional cricketer whom Wodehouse saw play in 1913 and he then immortalised the name in his Jeeves and Wooster stories.
Wodehouse and Cricket
Wodehouse's love of cricket found an outlet both as a player and a writer of cricket-themed stories
Our Neighbour Downstairs
Work of the Emsworth fire station team located on the ground floor of the Museum building
