Sudbury Heritage Centre and Museum, Sudbury, Suffolk. Free Admission
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Accessibility
"Accessible for wheelchairs and visitors with limited mobility"
Brief description
"Moments after you step through the door you realise that you are in an unusual space. Moored high on your left is an airship, a two-metre long model of the German Zeppelin that raided Sudbury in WWI. Below is a bomb dropped that night in 1916 and recovered from the river.
Follow curved panels and display cases to your left that offer windows on the town’s past from the Iron Age to the 21st Century and you can even meet Simon of Sudbury face to face. He was once one of the most powerful men in England, as the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. When he had to put up the tax he was victimised and beheaded in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.
The giant screen of the Local History Booth allows you to explore many aspects of Sudbury history in more depth. Here is the story of Catesby, the Peasants’ Revolt, our police and fire services and much more.
Read the stories of the many sacrifices made by Sudbury people during the two World Wars, with lists of the 300 who laid down their lives, taken from the town’s War Memorial. Also also the experiences of the 3000 young Americans who were stationed here at the USAAF base towards the end of WWII.
Star exhibit is a painting by Steven Binks of a crippled American Flying Fortress bomber zooming out of a birds’ eye view of Sudburyduring WW2. Next to it you’ll discover the Local History Booth. This is a virtual storybook of many aspects of the town’s history for you to browse on a large, user-friendly touch screen.
Passing through the doorway you can explore more of Sudbury’s long history. There are three more screens, two with permanent displays of images exploring Edwardian Sudbury and religious life in the town. The third is of Sudbury Photo Archive that gives access to more than 1,300 historic images of the town and its people, some captured in the 1850s when photography was in its infancy.
And two more on-screen presentations where you can learn about Sudbury’s Religious Dissenters or discover the History of Sudbury’s many Sports Clubs"
Address
Town Hall, Sudbury CO10 2EA
+ Sudbury Heritage Centre
Town Hall, Sudbury CO10 2EA
Phone
Website
https://sudburyheritagecentre.co.uk/
Directions
Opening Times
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Location
Nearest Venues
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*Distances are calculated in a straight line from the current venue, please allow extra time/distance based on available paths or roads.