3-600: The Cater Museum is a small local museum in Billericay , Essex county, England . The museum was established by Alice May Cater, in honour of her late husband William Alexander Cater, a local antiquarian . It was opened to the public on 7 May 1960. The museum is a registered charity and is located at 74 High Street, Billericay . It lies within a Grade II listed , 18th-century, red-brick-fronted building. The museum stores numerous local artefacts over three floors, including information on local families and buildings. Amongst
6-580: The artefacts are: reports of the Zeppelin that was downed in the area during World War I ; the remains of a two-headed lamb born in the area; and the door of the house once owned by Christopher Martin , who was a passenger aboard the Mayflower . In 2002, a Victorian kitchen garden was opened at the rear of the museum where a number of Elizabethan herbs were planted. In 2008, the museum received £41,000 of National Lottery funding to carry out renovation of
9-464: The rear of the building to restore it to its original 18th-century character. While this renovation was being carried out, a number of artefacts were discovered in the garden, some dating from around the 1860s. Items included Victorian pipes, ginger beer jars and medicine bottles; many of these were added to the museum's collection. This article relating to a museum in the United Kingdom
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