Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, 1897
What’s on
St Neots Museum, in partnership with Mystery in History, are proud to present the second season of Jailbreak, set in the Victorian cells of the Old Police Station, more commonly known these days as St Neots Museum. Our first season in Spring this year saw 574 people locked in our cells and we now return with a brand new challenge involving different skills and challenges. We have two types of tickets: £80 for larger teams (between 5 and 8 people) and £60 for smaller teams (4 people or less).
Our Winter craft and gift fair is back for another year selling a range of creative products from local makers, craftsman and artists. Join us in our exhibition space at the museum to browse ceramics, prints, paintings, posters, cards and many other gifts for Christmas and birthdays.
Join us in half-term to make a scary or friendly monster yarn picture to take home. £3.50 per child.
The Big Draw Festival is the world’s biggest celebration of drawing and October will see hundreds of events across the globe. Join us at St Neots Museum for our own one-day event and let loose, embrace happy accidents, discover and most importantly have fun with those HB pencils.
Join us for fun, history activities for young children, explore the museum and take home a messy art creation too. £3.50 per child – drop in event.
Commemorating the end of the First World War with displays of memorabilia, poetry readings and readings of local letters home, with a pop-up cafe, full programme on our website.
Looking for that last minute present? Enjoy a glass of wine with a mince pie and nibbles and discover the unique gifts for sale in our Christmas shop.
Meet Father Christmas at the St Neots lights-switch-on event on the Market Square. So add a little extra bit of magic to the festive season for little ones (and the young at heart). A wrapped gift and card from Father Christmas for every child.
£4 per child
Join us for fun, history activities for young children, explore the museum and take home a messy art creation too. £3.50 per child – drop in event.
Father Christmas will be making some special stop-offs at St Neots Museum during the festive season. So add a little extra bit of magic to the festive season for little ones (and the young at heart). A wrapped gift and card from Father Christmas for every child.
£4 per child
Father Christmas will be making some special stop-offs at St Neots Museum during the festive season. So add a little extra bit of magic to the festive season for little ones (and the young at heart). A wrapped gift and card from Father Christmas for every child.
£4 per child
Father Christmas will be making some special stop-offs at St Neots Museum during the festive season. So add a little extra bit of magic to the festive season for little ones (and the young at heart). A wrapped gift and card from Father Christmas for every child.
£4 per child
In the week ending 18th October 1918 the front cover of the St Neots Advertiser contained an advert for war savings certificates - revealing that the Hindu symbol of prosperity and good luck had not yet gained a more sinister meaning. The paper continued to report ‘News of our Soldiers and Sailors’ and a small selection is shown here. News of local men being held as Prisoners of War (POW) were beginning to appear and Private F. Stanley Emery was reported as not missing but infact a POW in Germany. On 20th September the paper had carried a long article about providing food parcels to local men. A parcel costing 15s (75p) was sent each week with an extra 7/6d (37p) provided for bread, parcels and bread were distributed through a central system agreed by all parties, but returning POW were soon reporting that parcels and the bread ration did not always arrive. To give an idea of the value of money in 1918, Bedfordshire police constables were to be paid 40 shillings (£2.00) per week.
The photograph shows St Mary's Street, Eynesbury around 1910.
St Neots Museum monthly pub walk is on tomorrow night, Thursday 18th October, discover the old pubs and inns of St Neots and their stories. Tickets £6.00 per person, meet at the Museum at 7.30pm, no need to book just come along.
In the St Neots Advertiser of 11th October 1918, further deaths of local men were announced. After four years of war people were trying to come to terms with the immense loss of life during the Great War, and the local paper started heading its 'News from our Soldiers and Sailors' with poems, the one here may seem relevant to 1918 but was actually written by the poet William Collins, 1721 - 1759. The local photograph, from around 1910, shows Eynesbury Green looking south to Little Barford - today towards Tesco's. next week more news from the local paper 100 years ago.