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Royal Visitor at Hereford Waterworks Museum

Royal Visitor at Hereford Waterworks Museum On 3rd October volunteers at the Waterworks Museum were delighted to welcome a very special visitor - His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester. The Duke, accompanied by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, Lady Darnley, spent an hour touring the Museum and chatting with volunteers. The Museum visit was…

Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award On 11 September Alex Rowe, 20, attended an award ceremony at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre where he was announced the winner of the West Midlands Museum Development 2019 Volunteer (Young Person) Award. A final year blacksmithing student at Herefordshire & Ludlow College (Holme Lacy), and the Waterworks Museum’s…

Mayor of Hereford opens new display at Waterworks Museum This year’s annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum (Sunday 28th July) saw the Mayor of Hereford, Councillor Kath Hey, unveil a plaque to inaugurate a new display with an interesting and unexpected connection to Hereford. The 1911 Hindley ‘Alcazar’ steam engine originally pumped saline water…

Over the weekend of 27th/28th April, the Waterworks Museum came alive with the vibrant sound and colour of Hereford’s third Steampunk Festival and some fantastic family entertainment, which kept visitors enthralled all weekend. Throughout the event, visitors (who included the Mayor of Hereford, Cllr. Sue Boulter) were entertained by brilliant acts of juggling, balance, illusion…

Did You Know?

The Museum’s oldest exhibit, a horse drawn fire engine, dates to 1805 and was used on the estate at Stoke Lacey.

To create the Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park a team of 30 volunteers gave over 2,300 hours of their time.

The Waterworks Museum was established over 40 years ago in 1974.

The oldest part of the Museum is 160 year old and dates back to 1856 and the creation of Hereford City’s first municipal water supply.

Volunteers run every aspect of the Museum – we have no paid staff.

The collection includes many important items of our industrial heritage, which but for the intervention of the Museum would have been lost forever.

The Museum’s collection totals over 3,500 items (including books, documents and records relating to the water industry).

The Museum’s display in the Rotherwas Building is the only permanent exhibition dedicated to Hereford in WWII.

In 2000, the Museum was on the listed buildings ‘at risk’ register and at risk of closure.

The main Museum building is one of less than 6% of all listed buildings that is rated as Grade II*.

In 2015, volunteers welcomed over 5,400 visitors to the Museum (a record year).

Our working triple-expansion steam engine, which stands two-floors high, was built in 1895 and continued in use supplying water to Hereford until 1952.

Category Archives: news

Royal Visitor at Hereford Waterworks Museum

Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award

Annual Gala Day

Steampunks In Hereford

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