After a break of several years, due principally to the pandemic, the annual Treasure Hunt will return on Wednesday 21st June 2023, starting around 7.00pm. Teams of 1-4 pedestrians will follow a route round Emsworth, guided by written instructions. There will be a number of questions to be answered on the way. The winning team...
Photographs from the Museum collection and also from Bernie Gudge's own albums show the effects of the 1963 long cold winter that started on New Year's Eve in 1962 and lasted until the following March with rivers, ponds and the harbour frozen. Also on display will be pictures of the devastation and damage caused by...
Rope making was a thriving industry in Emsworth for more than 200 years. Christopher Day is recorded as having a rope making business here in 1714. The manufacture of cordage was a profitable concern in the days of wooden ships and sail but sadly no industrial rope making exists in the town today. The industry...
Exhibition “Past and Present Visual Marks” by Elizabeth Saunders / Visual Marks Textile Group
An exhibition charting the life and works of Percy F. Westerman, one of Britain’s most prolific writers of children’s adventure books is coming to Emsworth Museum. The exhibition, which opens on September 2nd, 2023, includes books and ephemera from the Westerman Yarns Collection, belonging to Nigel Gossop who has been collecting and researching the books...
Presented by Alison Habens and Matt Wingett Writers and researchers, Alison Habens and Matt Wingett, claim to have discovered an extraordinary fact: three famous literary figures of the 19th Century, H.G.Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling met each other in the early 1880s, in the Old Drapery Bazaar, Hide's Emporium, on King's Road in Southsea....
Her Honour Judge Sarah Munro KC. In 2016, Judge Sarah Munro became a Senior Circuit Judge at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) trying serious cases frequently involving murder trials. Judge Munro will talk about her career as a lawyer for the last forty years and her work at the Old Bailey. HHJ Sarah...
Presented by Dr. Ben Timmis Although we take modern medical technology for granted, the CT Scanner, invented by an Englishman, is a truly extraordinary machine, that has had a huge impact on the practice of medicine as we know it today, ever since it was introduced in the 1980s. This talk will explain the origins...
Presented by Sarah Stanfield Lewis Carroll was a paradigm shifter in Victorian Children’s literature, who excited the imaginations of his young readers, and none more so than one Pelham Greville Wodehouse. Unexpected links between the two authors began to emerge on close examination of their lives and literary output. Sarah Stanfield Sarah was born on...
by Colin Brotherston The first exhibition in the David Rudkin Room for 2024 describes the local nature reserve and haven for wildlife near Emsworth town centre. Brook Meadow is located between the River Ems in the west and Lumley Road in the east and many of the plants, insects, birds and animals that can be...
The Life of Ken Wood and his Involvement in the Kenwood Company Kenneth Maynard Wood (1916-97) joined the Merchant Navy at 14, traveling the world and learning the importance of teamwork, which set him up for a successful business life. Ken's interest in electrical engineering eventually led him into manufacturing domestic appliances. In 1947, Ken Wood and his business...
Nic Cowper is an artist, speaker and teacher working around the south coast. A natural painter, he is self-taught, and has used almost every known medium. However, watercolour is the one that really delivers. Come and find out why.