MUSEUM STUDY VISIT

Friday 7th May 2010

10.30 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Bucks County Museum

Resource Centre at Halton,

Aylesbury, Bucks.  HP22 5PN

Including a tour of the Resource Centre

Ticket: £10.00

Members ONLY.   To include Tea/Coffee

The museum in Aylesbury has a small lacemaking section as a permanent exhibition, most of which is comprised of lacemaking equipment.  The majority of the lace they have in their collection is kept at the Museum Resource Centre at Halton, 5 miles south west of Aylesbury.  The centre is an old school, and set aside is a room for study purposes.  Laces include Bucks, Beds plus some foreign examples 17th – 19th Century Flemish, Russian, Italian, Irish and Austrian, also a box of samples with details of prices and makers names.

Maximum of 12 members.  To secure a place on this study visit please write to the society PO Box enclosing the full amount.  If this proves to be an over-subscribed event, we will look to repeat.