Royston Museum
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We celebrate the wonderful history of Royston, Herts, connecting people and places, past and present. Why not come & discover over 2000 years of history with us?
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This programme cover is for the Shaftesbury House Christmas Concert in 1974. Shaftesbury House’s buildings housed the Royston Home for Little Girls in 1908, which later became a home for boys, before closing in 1952. The building no longer survives.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This programme cover is for the Shaftesbury House Christmas Concert in 1974. Shaftesbury House’s buildings housed the Royston Home for Little Girls in 1908, which later became a home for boys, before closing in 1952. The building no longer survives.
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🎄 The Museum is now closed for Christmas. 🎄
Our team are having a well-deserved rest with their families over the next couple of weeks, and will be back in January. The Museum will re-open to visitors in mid-February - we can't wait to welcome you back then.
Our team are having a well-deserved rest with their families over the next couple of weeks, and will be back in January. The Museum will re-open to visitors in mid-February - we can't wait to welcome you back then.
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🎄 The Museum is now closed for Christmas. 🎄
Our team are having a well-deserved rest with their families over the next couple of weeks, and will be back in January. The Museum will re-open to visitors in mid-February - we can't wait to welcome you back then.
Our team are having a well-deserved rest with their families over the next couple of weeks, and will be back in January. The Museum will re-open to visitors in mid-February - we can't wait to welcome you back then.
Oh no they didn’t! This photograph captures a lively Royston pantomime from the 1970s - full of costumes, colour, and festive fun. Do you recognise anyone?
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December 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Oh no they didn’t! This photograph captures a lively Royston pantomime from the 1970s - full of costumes, colour, and festive fun. Do you recognise anyone?
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
🎄We've had so much fun with our young festive printers today! 🎄
Everyone designed and made their own printing blocks before using them to print Christmas cards on the press.
Everyone designed and made their own printing blocks before using them to print Christmas cards on the press.
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🎄We've had so much fun with our young festive printers today! 🎄
Everyone designed and made their own printing blocks before using them to print Christmas cards on the press.
Everyone designed and made their own printing blocks before using them to print Christmas cards on the press.
These tiny festive treasures are 8 leather-bound calendars (1891–1898) each decorated with gilded designs & lettering. Inside you'll find information about holidays, moon phases, the births/deaths of notable persons, and more key dates.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
These tiny festive treasures are 8 leather-bound calendars (1891–1898) each decorated with gilded designs & lettering. Inside you'll find information about holidays, moon phases, the births/deaths of notable persons, and more key dates.
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
Everyday cures included peppermint essence and bicarbonate of soda, whilst substances such as laudanum and carbolic oil reflected the shift away from traditional herbal remedies.
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Everyday cures included peppermint essence and bicarbonate of soda, whilst substances such as laudanum and carbolic oil reflected the shift away from traditional herbal remedies.
Fran's #MuseumAdvent pick is our Victorian medicine chest. During winter, a well-stocked chest was important, helping families treat colds, coughs, and seasonal ailments at home. Doctors were too expensive or inaccessible for many, so these were a staple in Victorian homes.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fran's #MuseumAdvent pick is our Victorian medicine chest. During winter, a well-stocked chest was important, helping families treat colds, coughs, and seasonal ailments at home. Doctors were too expensive or inaccessible for many, so these were a staple in Victorian homes.
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#24DaysOfCollections
Want to be one of our Friends.... with benefits?
Join the Friends of Royston Museum, recieve some fantastic benefits, and get that warm fuzzy feeling for supporting our Museum. 🥰
If you join today and you'll get until December 2026 for the price of 12 months.
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Join the Friends of Royston Museum, recieve some fantastic benefits, and get that warm fuzzy feeling for supporting our Museum. 🥰
If you join today and you'll get until December 2026 for the price of 12 months.
💻 buff.ly/tK1uGDl
December 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Want to be one of our Friends.... with benefits?
Join the Friends of Royston Museum, recieve some fantastic benefits, and get that warm fuzzy feeling for supporting our Museum. 🥰
If you join today and you'll get until December 2026 for the price of 12 months.
💻 buff.ly/tK1uGDl
Join the Friends of Royston Museum, recieve some fantastic benefits, and get that warm fuzzy feeling for supporting our Museum. 🥰
If you join today and you'll get until December 2026 for the price of 12 months.
💻 buff.ly/tK1uGDl
This glass lantern slide by local photographer Frank Hinkins shows the Parish Church and Frog Hall in the early 1900s. Frog Hall was demolished in the 1950s.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This glass lantern slide by local photographer Frank Hinkins shows the Parish Church and Frog Hall in the early 1900s. Frog Hall was demolished in the 1950s.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
Forget Santa’s schedule—this is the real Christmas countdown! A vintage cooking timetable to keep your veggies and meats in line. Because nothing says festive like perfectly timed sprouts!
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Forget Santa’s schedule—this is the real Christmas countdown! A vintage cooking timetable to keep your veggies and meats in line. Because nothing says festive like perfectly timed sprouts!
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
Posted on Christmas Eve in 1904 and delivered on Christmas Day—what a service! Don’t forget, today’s the last day for 2nd class post if you want your cards to arrive before Christmas.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Posted on Christmas Eve in 1904 and delivered on Christmas Day—what a service! Don’t forget, today’s the last day for 2nd class post if you want your cards to arrive before Christmas.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
An embroidered WWI Christmas card featuring mistletoe, a timeless festive symbol, alongside British and French flags. A delicate design carrying wishes of peace during wartime.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
An embroidered WWI Christmas card featuring mistletoe, a timeless festive symbol, alongside British and French flags. A delicate design carrying wishes of peace during wartime.
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
✨ Some exciting changes are coming to the Museum! ✨
The Museum will be closed from Monday 22 December until mid-February, when we'll be back with a new look and new air source heat pumps.
👉🏻 Our last open day to the public is this Saturday
👉🏻 Our kid's festive printing workshops are this Sunday
The Museum will be closed from Monday 22 December until mid-February, when we'll be back with a new look and new air source heat pumps.
👉🏻 Our last open day to the public is this Saturday
👉🏻 Our kid's festive printing workshops are this Sunday
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
✨ Some exciting changes are coming to the Museum! ✨
The Museum will be closed from Monday 22 December until mid-February, when we'll be back with a new look and new air source heat pumps.
👉🏻 Our last open day to the public is this Saturday
👉🏻 Our kid's festive printing workshops are this Sunday
The Museum will be closed from Monday 22 December until mid-February, when we'll be back with a new look and new air source heat pumps.
👉🏻 Our last open day to the public is this Saturday
👉🏻 Our kid's festive printing workshops are this Sunday
Rhian’s pick for today is this stunning 1948 Singer 201K sewing machine. Beautiful and built to last, it’s easy to see why these classics are now sought-after decorative pieces. She wouldn’t mind finding one under the tree!
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Rhian’s pick for today is this stunning 1948 Singer 201K sewing machine. Beautiful and built to last, it’s easy to see why these classics are now sought-after decorative pieces. She wouldn’t mind finding one under the tree!
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
🎄Join us for our festive printing press demo day today! 🎄
Drop in anytime before 4pm and have a go at printing your own Christmas cards or gift tags on the Victorian printing press which once printed the Royston Crow newspaper.
£2 per set of 2 Christmas cards or 4 gift tags.
Drop in anytime before 4pm and have a go at printing your own Christmas cards or gift tags on the Victorian printing press which once printed the Royston Crow newspaper.
£2 per set of 2 Christmas cards or 4 gift tags.
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🎄Join us for our festive printing press demo day today! 🎄
Drop in anytime before 4pm and have a go at printing your own Christmas cards or gift tags on the Victorian printing press which once printed the Royston Crow newspaper.
£2 per set of 2 Christmas cards or 4 gift tags.
Drop in anytime before 4pm and have a go at printing your own Christmas cards or gift tags on the Victorian printing press which once printed the Royston Crow newspaper.
£2 per set of 2 Christmas cards or 4 gift tags.
This photograph of a nativity play is part of the Museum's photographic archive, but we don't know anything about it. Let us know if you recognise anyone!
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December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This photograph of a nativity play is part of the Museum's photographic archive, but we don't know anything about it. Let us know if you recognise anyone!
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
A Christmas card from 1912 featuring Miss Beale and Miss Leete with Joseph Leete in the Sunken Garden at The Warren. Festive greetings from over a century ago!
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December 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A Christmas card from 1912 featuring Miss Beale and Miss Leete with Joseph Leete in the Sunken Garden at The Warren. Festive greetings from over a century ago!
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
Oh, lovely!
We have a pair of 1950s knitted swimming trunks in the collection that one of our volunteers found the pattern for and knitted us a replica pair.
We have a pair of 1950s knitted swimming trunks in the collection that one of our volunteers found the pattern for and knitted us a replica pair.
December 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Oh, lovely!
We have a pair of 1950s knitted swimming trunks in the collection that one of our volunteers found the pattern for and knitted us a replica pair.
We have a pair of 1950s knitted swimming trunks in the collection that one of our volunteers found the pattern for and knitted us a replica pair.
🎄✨ Festive Printing Press Day!✨🎄
Pop down to the Museum between 10am and 4pm on Sunday for a chance to print your own Christmas cards and gift tags on our Victorian Printing Press!
📅 Full details on our website: buff.ly/yygS5lS
Pop down to the Museum between 10am and 4pm on Sunday for a chance to print your own Christmas cards and gift tags on our Victorian Printing Press!
📅 Full details on our website: buff.ly/yygS5lS
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎄✨ Festive Printing Press Day!✨🎄
Pop down to the Museum between 10am and 4pm on Sunday for a chance to print your own Christmas cards and gift tags on our Victorian Printing Press!
📅 Full details on our website: buff.ly/yygS5lS
Pop down to the Museum between 10am and 4pm on Sunday for a chance to print your own Christmas cards and gift tags on our Victorian Printing Press!
📅 Full details on our website: buff.ly/yygS5lS
A vintage knitting pattern for a hat and gloves—essential for braving frosty days in style. Before thermal wear, wool was the go-to for keeping warm through long winters.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A vintage knitting pattern for a hat and gloves—essential for braving frosty days in style. Before thermal wear, wool was the go-to for keeping warm through long winters.
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
Today's #MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections is this watercolour painting of a snowy King James’s Palace. It was painted as a Christmas card design for the Friends of Royston Museum by Freda Wright.
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today's #MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections is this watercolour painting of a snowy King James’s Palace. It was painted as a Christmas card design for the Friends of Royston Museum by Freda Wright.
We have another brilliant guest article on our website for you to enjoy! 🥳
In our latest piece, our friends at @roystoncave.bsky.social explore its discovery in August 1742, along with the subsequent investigations and the fascinating theories about its purpose and origins.
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In our latest piece, our friends at @roystoncave.bsky.social explore its discovery in August 1742, along with the subsequent investigations and the fascinating theories about its purpose and origins.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We have another brilliant guest article on our website for you to enjoy! 🥳
In our latest piece, our friends at @roystoncave.bsky.social explore its discovery in August 1742, along with the subsequent investigations and the fascinating theories about its purpose and origins.
👉 buff.ly/9i3uFrq
In our latest piece, our friends at @roystoncave.bsky.social explore its discovery in August 1742, along with the subsequent investigations and the fascinating theories about its purpose and origins.
👉 buff.ly/9i3uFrq
Emma’s pick today is a Woolworths Christmas magazine from 2008 - the last before Royston's store closed in January 2009. Browsing toys and gifts feels like a trip back in time, though Emma remembers circling her wish list in the Argos catalogue instead!
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December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Emma’s pick today is a Woolworths Christmas magazine from 2008 - the last before Royston's store closed in January 2009. Browsing toys and gifts feels like a trip back in time, though Emma remembers circling her wish list in the Argos catalogue instead!
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections
⚽ 150 Years Strong – The Story of Royston Town FC ⚽
Celebrate a century and a half of The Crows, from humble beginnings to the heart of the local community today. Discover rare memorabilia, historic photographs, and stories that have shaped one of Hertfordshire’s oldest football clubs.
Celebrate a century and a half of The Crows, from humble beginnings to the heart of the local community today. Discover rare memorabilia, historic photographs, and stories that have shaped one of Hertfordshire’s oldest football clubs.
December 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
⚽ 150 Years Strong – The Story of Royston Town FC ⚽
Celebrate a century and a half of The Crows, from humble beginnings to the heart of the local community today. Discover rare memorabilia, historic photographs, and stories that have shaped one of Hertfordshire’s oldest football clubs.
Celebrate a century and a half of The Crows, from humble beginnings to the heart of the local community today. Discover rare memorabilia, historic photographs, and stories that have shaped one of Hertfordshire’s oldest football clubs.
Bayko was the first plastic construction toy, produced from 1933-1967. Museum Trustee, Phil, remembers being given this Bayko set when he was a boy in the 1950s. His collection grew thanks to several birthday and Chrismas presents.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Bayko was the first plastic construction toy, produced from 1933-1967. Museum Trustee, Phil, remembers being given this Bayko set when he was a boy in the 1950s. His collection grew thanks to several birthday and Chrismas presents.
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#MuseumAdvent #24DaysOfCollections