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Prestigious Engineering Award Mon 7th May 2018

Prestigious Engineering Award Mon 7th May 2018
Over the past 30 years the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has granted some 115 Engineering Heritage Awards (EHA) to celebrate the essential contribution of mechanical engineering to our past and present.  We believe that the EHA is the most prestigious award that an industrial heritage museum can achieve so it was with great pride…
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Special Events in 2018

Special Events in 2018
The Directors are delighted to publish the calendar of steaming days and special events at the Waterworks Museum in 2018. The Museum will again be open one day week throughout 2018, EVERY TUESDAY between 11am and 4pm. In addition, between Easter and October the Museum will be open with all engines operating ‘in-steam’ on 20…
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Free Education Resource for Key Stage 3

Free Education Resource for Key Stage 3
The University of Worcester, Institute of Education and the Waterworks Museum - Hereford are pleased to announce the availability of new education modules to support secondary teachers in the delivery of national curriculum key stage-3. The modules have been developed by Trainee Teachers from the University of Worcester, as part of a PGCE Teaching and…
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Steampunk Extravaganza In Hereford

Steampunk Extravaganza In Hereford
Over the weekend of Saturday/Sunday 9th & 10th September 2017, the Waterworks Museum hosted Hereford’s first Steampunk event, which was very successful. Attendance was good, but not at the levels that we had hoped for. This was in part due to the showery weather, although it was nowhere near as bad as the forecast weather,…
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Soup And Steam At Night At The Waterworks Museum

Soup And Steam At Night At The Waterworks Museum
On Saturday 28th October 2017, the Waterworks Museum will be opening in steam at night for the first time in over 20-years as part of the national 'Museums At Night' programme 2017. Why not come along, enjoy a light supper and see the Museums steam engines operating as you have never seen them before. What…
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Steampunks at Hereford Waterworks Museum

Steampunks at Hereford Waterworks Museum
Over the weekend of September 9th & 10th the Waterworks Museum will see an influx of Steampunks! Steampunk can be described as Victorian Science Fantasy, so the setting of a Victorian Waterworks full of amazing machinery suits them perfectly. There will be traders selling amazing things from costume, jewellery, accessories, housewares, hats, ray-guns, walking canes,…
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Mayor of Hereford opens new exhibit at the Waterworks Museum

Mayor of Hereford opens new exhibit at the Waterworks Museum
Wonderful music by the Hereford Concert Band and a fine turn out of historic vehicles made for excellent entertainment for the close to 300 visitors who attended the annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum on Sunday 30th July. The main event this year was the official opening of a new exhibit at the Museum,…
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School Holiday Fun

School Holiday Fun
Throughout the year special events are held at the Waterworks Museum and this includes themed fun days in school holidays and half terms for children to enjoy. The following days have been arranged in the remainder of 2017, when the Museum is open between 11am and 4pm. Tuesday 25 July Pond Dipping (activity between 11am…
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Annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum

Annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum
Annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum The Waterworks Museum prides itself on telling important stories not just about Hereford, but also of the county’s market towns. A fine example of this can be seen at the 2017 Gala Day with the opening of a new exhibit that has recreated the Edwardian water pumping system…
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Blue Peter visit to Waterworks Museum in 1978

Blue Peter visit to Waterworks Museum in 1978
The announcement of the death of BBC presenter John Noakes on 28th May 2017 has caused us to reflect on the occasion in 1978 when ‘Blue Peter’ visited the Waterworks Museum – Hereford on the 25th January 1978 to record an item which was broadcast on the 17th April 1978. The attached extracts of articles…
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A fine partnership: Worthington-Simpson

A fine partnership: Worthington-Simpson
Centenary Celebrations It is sometimes strange what brings two companies together. Often it is a financial reason but in the case of Henry Worthington (New York) and James Simpson & Co (London) it was the demands of war. In 1885 a British Army Expeditionary Force set out to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. The army…
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Obituary: Mrs Philippa Southall

Obituary: Mrs Philippa Southall
It is with great sadness that we record the passing of the Waterwork Museum’s President, Philippa Helen Southall, who died in her sleep on 14th May 2017, aged 92 years. When the Waterworks Museum was founded in 1974, by her husband Stephen Southall, Philippa stood physically and metaphorically by his side and she has continued…
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