16-560: Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings is an open-air museum of rescued buildings which have been relocated to its site in Stoke Heath , a district of Bromsgrove , Worcestershire, England. Founded in 1963 and opened in 1967, the museum was conceived following the dismantling of a 15th-century timber-framed house in Bromsgrove in 1962 to provide a location for its reconstruction. It became England's first open-air museum and, after
32-504: A building at the museum which was built to incorporate the preserved timber roof of Guesten Hall, originally built next to Worcester Cathedral for entertaining the Prior's guests. The New Guesten Hall is also used by outside parties for concerts, conferences, exhibitions and meetings. The museum's Victorian church, originally built in 1891 at Bringsty Common , Herefordshire, was opened and re-dedicated in 1996 and services are held there during
48-504: A mobile TXE 2), a manual switchboard and early automatic systems. The collection shows the complete history of telephone kiosks in the UK from 1912 to the 1990s together with demonstrations of how telephone calls were routed and connected before the advent of digital technology. The museum has a wide and varied events programme that changes every year. Events are largely family-focussed, with some events aimed at an older adult audience. Because of
64-552: A small objects collection which support the large objects collection. Some of these are displayed in the buildings, whilst the rest are kept in the museum store. The museum also contains the UK's National telephone kiosk Collection. This is the largest collection of telephone kiosks in the country and is part of the Connected Earth heritage project. There are also three fully working analogue telephone exchanges (one of them
80-885: The Science Museum , the University of Salford , the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals . Partners will receive funding from BT for 10 years to help with hosting and management. Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station was a previous partner. Each partner focused on a different aspect of telecommunications history. Five partners – Amberley, Avoncroft, Goonhilly, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and National Museum of Scotland – have hosted dedicated Connected Earth galleries, while others incorporate Connected Earth artefacts into their existing galleries. Together
96-781: The St Fagans National Museum of History in Wales, the second in the United Kingdom. This building is known as the medieval 'Town House' today, though it has been known by other names in the past, including the 'Bromsgrove House' and the 'Merchant's House'. It now houses a collection of domestic, industrial, agricultural and other forms of historic building, the majority dismantled and re-erected. The museum's collection comprises more than 30 buildings and structures which have been relocated from their original sites under threat of demolition, being rebuilt and restored at
112-461: The 1980s. These developments hold many of the commuters that have made Bromsgrove into a dormitory town ; it is within commuting distance of both Birmingham and Worcester . Stoke Heath features Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings . This Worcestershire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Connected Earth Connected Earth was a UK network of organizations, primarily museums, that preserve
128-558: The Bayleaf house and Market Guildhall at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester. Gunolt always kept to the original style of the buildings and when the original format was unknown he would put a simple plain unembellished section. An example of this is a plain oak block stairway (demonstrated in the town house). The buildings include industrial buildings (for example the chain shop), residential / domestic buildings (for example
144-549: The Connected Earth partners aimed to tell the history of communications in the UK and from the UK to overseas. Through Connected Earth, artefacts as diverse as Hughes printing telegraph , electrophone table, the tuning coil from Rugby Radio Station , telephone kiosks , the first transatlantic telegraph cable , are preserved and accessible for visitors. Partners continue to collect contemporary communications artefacts and work with other organisations to ensure that
160-651: The Midlands and a little further beyond. The town house, windmill and granary were dismantled, restored and fully reconstructed by Gunolt Daniel Greiner (born 1915 in Jugenheim) and his son Francis Benedict Joseph Greiner. These were the only buildings restored by him in Avoncroft. They then also dismantled, restored and fully reconstructed other 15th century buildings at various open-air museums in England, for example
176-521: The family focus, events are largely centred on bank holiday weekends and school holidays. Events often have historical themes and feature re-enactors from various time periods, including Wars of the Roses, Victorian, and 1940s. Stoke Heath, Worcestershire Stoke Heath is an area in the south of Bromsgrove , Worcestershire , England. Originally a small village near Bromsgrove, it has been absorbed into Bromsgrove by new housing developments since
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#1732787081124192-440: The history of telecommunications in the UK. Heritage artifacts are physically sent to Connected Earth partners and other institutions as appropriate, and are brought together again online through virtual galleries, searchable catalogues and educational resources at its website. Connected Earth was founded by BT in 2001 and grew from its commitment to the UK's telecommunications heritage. By working with institutional partners
208-565: The museum's open season. The church is also licensed for wedding blessings. The other exhibits, which span over 700 years of history, include a perry mill from Redditch , a toll house from Little Malvern , a fibreglass spire from Smethwick , an earth closet , a cruck -frame barn and a counting house . The buildings and structures at the museum were all moved there to save them from demolition they would have faced in their previous locations, either through wilful destruction or neglect. Together, they represent over 700 years of history from
224-626: The museum. This includes a fully functioning windmill and a post WW2 prefab house as used in many towns and cities after the Second World War to provide quick affordable replacements for houses destroyed by bombing. The Arcon V prefabricated house was originally constructed on Moat Lane in Yardley , Birmingham and was transported to the museum in 1981. Weddings and receptions are frequently held in The New Guesten Hall,
240-482: The network aimed to ensure that the UK's telecommunications heritage should be both accessible and assured for future generations . The Connected Earth partners were Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre , Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings , Bawdsey Radar , BT Archives , Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station , Milton Keynes Museum , Museum of London , Museum of Science and Industry Manchester (MoSI) , Porthcurno Telegraph Museum , National Museums of Scotland ,
256-469: The prefab and toll house), religious buildings (such as the church), agricultural buildings (such as the windmill, barn and stable), buildings for entertainment (such as the cockpit) and others that don't fit these categories (such as the cell block, earth closet and ice house). Some of the buildings are furnished internally to present a view of life in a particular era in that building. Others are empty, or contain other display materials. The museum also has
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