This beautiful map of the county of Essex is 300 years old! It's currently on display in our Towns Through Time exhibition. It was drawn by Herman Moll (b.1654-d.1732). #map #essex

Another great photo on display in our Towns Through Time exhibition. Church Street in the early 1960s showing the Waltham Abbey Club. The Waltham Abbey Club was originally built as a Baptist Chapel. These buildings were later demolished. #FlashbackFriday

Join us on Saturday 4th of May to make Anglo-Saxon helmets for our Holy Cross Arts and Crafts activity. £3 per child. No need to book, just drop in between 10am–4pm. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. #WalthamAbbey #FamilyFun #AngloSaxon #Museum #Holycross

140 years ago, Loughton’s Lopping Hall was officially opened.
On display is this rather lovely poster advertising celebrations taking place over three days, including promenades and displays through rooms and ‘a marvellous mechanical nightingale’ that sings. #Loughton

We have a large collection of costume worn or made in the district. This beautiful pink late 1960s evening dress, by Frank Usher is currently on display. The Frank Usher brand created stylish designs that were ready to wear and affordable. #FrankUsher #fashion #1960s

#FlashbackFriday ! Here’s a lovely old photo of the old almshouses, Coppice Row in Theydon Bois, taken in the 1920s. They are now private individual cottages. #FlashbackFriday #TheydonBois #almshouses

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#familydaysout #easter2024 #heritagesite #essexevents

This is one of many watercolour sketches by James Paul Andre the Younger, painted in the 1830s. He was a London based artist, active between the years 1823 and 1867. This colourful watercolour is of Pudding Lane in Chigwell. #Chigwell #watercolour

Flashback Friday! This is one of 50 images of Loughton taken by @LoughtonCameraClub for their 50th anniversary. Its Blue Watch having lunch at Loughton Fire Station, 20th May 1995. #flashbackfriday #loughton #loughton fireservice #fireservice

Did you know? The museum has a large collection relating to the Met Police service in Waltham Abbey and the local area (known as J Division). This cell door is one of many items from Waltham Abbey Police Station on Sun Street, which closed in 2011. #policestation #walthamabbey

Flashback Friday! This is one of many photographs which feature in our new ‘Towns Through Time’ exhibition in the museum. Come and see us! Gracie and Marjorie Curtis stand outside the King’s Head public house, in Chigwell, around 1905-1910. #FlashbackFriday #Chigwell #old pubs

Who remembers Pynes Stores Pynes was a familiar store on the High Street in Epping for many years. What are your memories of this shop? #Epping #Shopping #Pynes

How hospitals have changed! This photo from the 1950s, shows patients in a ward at Honey Lane Hospital in Waltham Abbey. The hospital was demolished in 1988 to make way for a care home. #Waltham Abbey #hospital

Ten of Spradbery's posters have been conserved with the aid of a grant from the AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Scheme. This bonus art work, made by Spradbery as part of his art training, was uncovered behind one of the posters in the process too!
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Have you visited our latest exhibition of photographs of towns in the district yet? This old photograph of the Kings Head in Ongar, in 1896 is one of the many images you can see. #Ongar #pubs

Flashback Friday! Another lovely photo from our latest exhibition ‘Towns Through Time’ showing Epping’s Empire Cinema, for King George V’s Silver Jubilee, 1935. It closed in 1954 and was converted into a shop premises. Do you remember when it was Tesco’s? #Epping #oldcinema

Flashback Friday! Our latest exhibition ‘Towns Through Time’ features some lovely photographs of towns in the district. Here’s one of Sun Street, Waltham Abbey in the early 1960s. What are your memories of the town back then? #Waltham Abbey #FlashbackFriday

A seasonal scene in Essex for you today from our extensive collection of paintings. This oil on canvas is by East Anglian artist Ann Valerie Gower (1918-2004). Isn’t it lovely? #Essex #Snow #Art

Who remembers Safeway? This photograph was taken by Tony Reeves and is part of a collection of photographs of the town taken in 1995 to celebrate 50 years of Loughton Camera Club.
We’d love to know who these store assistants are. Can you help? #Loughton #shopping

Another #FlashbackFriday photo for you! This is one of 50 photos taken in 1995 to celebrate 50 years of @LoughtonCameraClub. It shows John Stuchfield in his butcher’s shop at 168 High Road. Photograph by Tony Reeves. #Loughton