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Artefactual

Millgate Museum, Newark.

Newark Museums Service has over 70,000 items in its collection with social history being a prominent theme. Millgate Museum has the following on permanent display:

• Agriculture (tools, seed drills, blacksmith’s forge)
• Trades and industry (machinery, malsters’ wooden tools, canvas boots etc)
• Shops and streets (Post Office, chemist’s, ironmonger’s, public house, cobbler’s, tobacconist’s and sweet shop)
• Domestic displays (laundry, kitchen, parlour)
• Newark in the two World Wars (local regiments, life during wartime and the inter-war period)

More information at:

• www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/pp/Gold/ViewGold.asp?ID=1931

Newark Town Hall.

Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery, as well as being the home of Newark Town Council, opened a fully accredited Civic Museum in September 1999. The collections include:

• Civic plate, insignia and regalia
• Town charters from 1549
• Gifts to the town dating from the 16th century
• Furniture
• A collection of fine art, including works by local artists Sir William Nicholson and Robert Kiddey

For more information see the website:

• www.newarktownhallmuseum.co.uk

© THOROTON SOCIETY | CREATED: 23 October 2005 | REVISED: 22 November 2008