Maidenhead Heritage Centre

Maidenhead Heritage Centre
18 Park Street
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1SL
England

Website

www.maidenheadheritage.org.uk

E-mail

info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk

Telephone

01628 780555

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Maidenhead Heritage Centre is where local history comes alive - from the stone age to the age of aviation and computers. Our exhibitions celebrate the past and help our visitors understand how and why Maidenhead and the surrounding villages developed.

We are also Maidenhead's community memory bank, collecting and preserving artefacts, photographs, documents and tape recordings which all illustrate our local history. We have an excellent reference library and our shop sells a range of local books and heritage gifts.

We have a large collection of material relating to Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and are happy to answer enquiries about ATA

Venue Type:

Museum, Archive, Science centre, Transport heritage site

Opening hours

Tues - Sat 10.00-16.00
2nd Sun of each month, 10.00-12.30 (Farmers' Market Day)

Closed: Sun Mon
Sun Mon Tues during exhibition changeover
Christmas & New Year

Admission charges

Free

Collection details

Maidenhead Heritage Centre 20th Anniversary

9 April — 18 May 2013 *on now

The current exhibition shows how far the Heritage Centre has come in 20 years. It charts the journey from Bridge Avenue in 1993 to the present day in Park Street. The above picture contains many items from the last 20 years. Including mugs, books and even a Christmas Pudding - guess how old that is!

Suitable for

Admission

Free

The Cookham Collection

22 May — 13 July 2013

Our collection of objects from Cookham includes pottery from Odney, cartoon films from Moor Hall, a wonderful model of Cookham Mill in the 19th century, an original cartoon of village characters who were regulars at the Bell and the Dragon and an archive relating to Dr Robert Shepard, the village doctor in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Suitable for

Admission

Free

Maidenhead and the Motor Industry

16 July — 21 September 2013

2013 sees the 100th anniversary of the first motor cars made in Maidenhead, called the GWK. The same factory later made Marendaz Specials and the Burney Streamliner, one of which was sold to Edward Prince of Wales.