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Welcomeelcome to Wymondham Heritage Museum Welcome to the Heritage Museum
Clock Inlock inHeritage Museum on the old Briton Brush factory time cloock Heritage Museum
The shop counter was the
Magistratesagistrate's Benchench when Bridewell was a courthouse
Magistrate's Court
Womenomen prisoners in the re-created dungeon Women Prison
The Crank in the BackgroundrankCrank and in the background, the punishment collar, seen in the prison display room. The original prison door is in the foreground Punishment Collar
The unique display of brush making materials from
Wymondhamymondham's most important industry, now defunct
Brush Making
This painting by Johnohn Mannann shows Robert Kett, Wymondham's local hero, addressing his followers on
Mouseholdousehold Heatheath
John Mann
A re-creation of a 1930s shop 1930s Shop
Looking at a Prisonrisoner in a
Remandemand Cellell
Remand Cell
Out in the Courtyardourtyard, used as an excerise yard for Prisonrisoners and drying washing when it was a
Womens Prisonomen's Prisonrison. The garden also has artefacts, including this water pump which stood by the old Norwich to Cambridge road in the past and was used to lay the dust.
Court Yard
The Prison reformer
Johnohn Howardoward went down these steps to the first dungeon on the site
Dungeon Stairs
Here prisoners were kept in underground in Chainshains Handcuffs
The Cobbledobbled Floorloor of the first dungeon Dungeon Floor