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Windsor & Royal Borough Museum is now open to the public.
Address:
The Guildhall
High Street
Windsor
SL4 1LR
Contact us:
Phone no. 01628 685686
Email: museum@rbwm.gov.uk
Web: www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/museum.htm
Nearest car parks: River Street and Victoria Street
Opening hours:
Mondays: Closed, except to booked school groups
Bank Holiday Mondays: 12 noon - 4pm
Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10am – 4pm
Sundays: 12 noon - 4pm
Admission:
Free to Advantage Card holders, borough residents and employees with ID and Friends of the Museum
Adults: £3.00
Concessions: £2.50
Members of groups of over 10 people: £2.00
Children aged 12-17: £1
Children under 12: Free
WINDSOR FOOTSTEPS
Take a walking tour of Windsor with your mobile.
Listen to a history of twelve sites in the town.
Dial 020 7098 7050, and when prompted, enter the number of the building you want to know the history of.......and enjoy!
- Windsor Royal Station
- Harte & Garter Hotel
- Edinburgh Woollen Mill
- Market Cross House
- The Guildhall
- Engine House
- Masonic Hall
- Air Mail Post Box
- 13 High Street – Leapfrog
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- HSBC
- Breakneck Alley (Goswell Hill)
Windsor Footsteps is now live and leaflets are available at many places in the town. These include the Windsor Information Centre in the Central Station. The leaflet includes a map showing the location of each of the historic sites that are covered. The scripts were written for people standing in front of the site but you can also dial and listen from your own landline telephone anywhere in the world. From abroad dial +44 20 7098 7050
Windsor Footsteps is written and recorded by members of The Friends and sponsored by ComXo
Windsor is more than a Castle
Windsor is a vibrant town with a long history.
- There has been a military presence here for many hundreds of years.
- The town was a pioneer in the training of young seamen and aeronautical engineers, and the birthplace of Sir Sydney Camm, designer of the Hurricane.
- In Victorian times there was an Anglican Convent that sent Sisters to set up hospitals in India and in the poorest parts of England. This closed in 2000.
- Shakespeare visited the town and wrote a play about real people that lived here. There is a long theatrical tradition in the town.
- Three local men, the Windsor Martyrs, were burnt at the stake.
- Our magnificent Guildhall has been the scene of several National events recently.
Since 1991 members of the Friends have been campaigning for a dedicated exhibition centre with workroom, office and lecture room for the 6,000 artefacts and documents about the town and the rest of the Royal Borough which are in store in Windsor. Many tourists express surprise at the lack of a Museum they can visit, while our schoolchildren have to travel to other towns to study local history! There is a small exhibition in the local studies room in Windsor Library but this is not enough. There is also another local museum stored in boxes. This is Clewer Church Museum, which needs a home and we would like to provide one.
If you are a local resident or hope to visit the town some day and think that the TOWN of Windsor should have a public exhibition of its history we need a donation from you now. Click here to see how you can help. |