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
The Foster Collection
Accounts dated 1871-83. Requests for supplies to William Foster from a variety of local businesses for timber and coal. Originally part of the estate…
Featured Exhibit
Archaeology on the Coastal Plain
This exhibition, curated by Ann Davies, showcased some of the work undertaken in recent years by Chichester & District Archaeology...
Recently Added Items
Bottle, medicine
Glass bottle with cut vertical lines up and down its rear surface presumably to render handling easier. Label on the front 'WRIGHT'S COAL TAR…
Box, for voting
Wooden box, possibly mahogany with a hinged lid. 20.5 cm wide by 15.5 cm tall by 15 cm depth. Used as a voting box by the Independent Order of…
Writers in Whites. How a group of literary cricketers changed English culture.
Book, hardback, in white with an orange dust cover. Published by Fairfield Books in 2026. 296 p., ill. photographs colour and b/w. 24 cm x 16.5…
Memorial Plaque
To commemorate the loss of someone killed in action serving with British and Empire forces during the First World War and intended to be a tangible…
Free French Camp, images
Memory stick with 'GOLD DU MEDOC HOTEL AND SPA' sticker. Contains 53 monochrome images of activities in the Second World War Camp off Adderbury…
Poster advertising the play "Give Me Yesterday"
Green ink on off white paper, now folded 380 mm x 500 mm. Slightly torn on upper right hand side. Old sellotape marks top right, left and centre and…
The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health
Grey dust cover the front one of which is loose. 135 mm x 215 mm. Hole punched through entire body., 31 p.
Report of the Medical Health Officer
For the Urban District of Havant and Waterloo. Recounts the general health of the area in terms of disease, infection and includes a report by the…
The History of Wildfowling
Book, with dust cover, 288 p., ill monochrome. 145 mm x 223 mm. Condition: good.
Local history PDF files
On red memory stick. Contains 13 pdfs and 2 files relating to Emsworth & district local history.
EMS10 - Emsworth War Memorial WW1
EMS 1 - Some…