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Stockwood Discovery Centre, formerly known as Stockwood Craft Museum, is one of two free admission museums situated in Luton (the other is Wardown Park Museum). The museums in Luton are a part of a charitable trust, Luton Culture. The discovery centre displays collections of local social history, archaeology, geology and rural crafts.
The collection was donated to the Luton Museum Service in 1991 (now Stockwood Discovery Centre part of Luton Culture) and has examples of horse-drawn road vehicles and carriages used in Britain dating from Roman times up until the 1930s. The collection has examples of vehicles used by tradesmen and ordinary people as well as luxury vehicles and ...
Stockwood Discovery Centre: Luton: Multiple: Includes the Mossman Collection of carriages, geology, archaeology, social history and rural crafts Stondon Motor Museum: Lower Stondon: Transport: website, automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, airplanes, replica of the HM Bark Endeavour of explorer James Cook, tanks Tempsford Village Museum ...
Stockwood Park is a large municipal park near Junction 10 of the M1. Located in the park is Stockwood Discovery Centre, a free museum that houses Luton local social history, archaeology and geology. The collection of rural crafts and trades held at Stockwood Discovery Centre was amassed by Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe, who was a notable local ...
Wardown Park Museum and just part of its extensive grounds. Robert How built the first property within the park, called Bramingham Shott, which is the current home to the museum. [1] In the early 1870s the estate was taken over by local solicitor, Frank Chapman-Scargill, he rebuilt much of the earlier house in 1879 for a total cost of £10,000.
In the late 12th century, a hospital was built on the Stockwood Estate in Farley Hill. This old hospital was partly renovated and extended to house a museum that holds the Mossman Collection, a large collection of horsedrawn carriages and other vehicles, along with locally found artifacts, a historical garden and a craft center.
The Coastal Discovery Museum is located on the grounds of Hilton Head’s historic Honey Horn, 70 Honey Horn Drive, one mile over the bridge onto the island. It is open seven days a week and ...
Stockwood Park is a large urban park in Luton, Bedfordshire, in the Farley Hill estate. With period formal gardens , leading crafts museums, Stockwood Park Rugby Club and extensive golfing facilities, it is about 100 hectares in area.