Earls Colne Heritage Museum at The Quaker Meeting House: Pop-up and walking tour.

For the Heritage Open Days festival, Earls Colne Heritage Museum has teamed up again with the historic Quaker Meeting House in Burrows Road, Earls Colne. Come and find us in their grounds, and discover more about the Museum, the locality and prominent families of Earls Colne of the past with our pop-up display.

Local historian and lifetime village resident, John Stedman, will take us back through time with a tour of Foundry Lane, where Hunts Atlas Works built the first houses for its workers in 1872. The walk will start and finish at the Friends Meeting House. The Meeting House has been on the same site in Earls Colne since 1674, the present building being built about 1733 and is the oldest meeting house in the area still in use. Although built for and remaining in Quaker use, the building is also a community resource. It makes a positive contribution to the local conservation area, and as such is appreciated by local people and visitors who may not be users of the building.

The building and burial ground embody Quaker values.
Burrows Road, once known as Meeting House Lane, is now a residential road just off the High Street.
The walking tour of Foundry Lane will take approx. 60 minutes. Tour starts 1200. Audio equipment supplied.

Refreshments will be available at the Quaker Meeting House.

Timings

Saturday 12 September:

Open 1000-1600 Walking tour: 1200 noon

Location & directions

The Meeting House, 8 Burrows Road, Earls Colne, Colchester, Essex, CO6 2RZ

Directions:

Burrows Road is just off the north side of the High Street near The Lion PH.

Contact on day:

Lesley Berner

Telephone number:

+447912975848

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking not required

Accessibility details

Uneven pavements with dropped kerbs. Parked cars. Cross main Road at zebra crossing.

Additional information

Audio equipment available for walking tour. The nearby Earls Colne Heritage Museum, One Reubens Walk, CO6 2SZ, housed in a Hunts Atlas Works Grade II Listed Water Tower (built 1895), will be open 12.-2pm. Free entry.

Max number of people:

25

Estimated duration:

1 hour(s)

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