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On the reverse of display 2 is a collection of Police Records and photos.
This stand also houses records from The Cottage Hospital amongst other things medical concerning the town.
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On the right as you enter is a cabinet showing various leaflets and other items connected to the war and the Fire Brigade. On the left are WW1 and WW11 artefacts, pictures and other items relevant to this period such as ‘gas masks’ together with a number of items from even earlier times.
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Here items in connection with the ‘Women’s Land Army’ can be found. These ladies were vital to the food production in this area. Several of the land girls stationed here married Pershore men and are still living here today.
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Two large cabinets can be found with many different articles referring to Pershore and the local area including: hats, cameras, toys, clay pipes.
The same display also has finds form the excavations at No 8.
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We now have a batch of shelving containing shoes and shoe maker’s tools and equipment.
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The next display contains a gramophone player with a number of records from the time along with a grandfather clock made in Pershore.
A large cabinet houses small artefacts including: medals, coins plus a ‘hat’ a special ‘hat’ as it belonged to a local man who worked on the Titanic and was one of the survivors.
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On the wall there is a display showing the HMS Scimitar - the destroyer that Pershore Rural District Council adopted during WW11. The Scimitar made six trips to Dunkirk and rescued 27,000 troops. The Scimitar remembrance day in 1996 was attended by more than 30 members of the old crew, plus widows and servicemen rescued at Dunkirk.
Beneath the wall displays is a model of the Bedford lifeboat. The original was donated to the Tyne-side lifeboat station by Miss A.M.Bedford of Pershore in 1886 in memory of her brother Benjamin , an engineer and surveyor to Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Bedford family lived in Bedford House in Bridge Street, Pershore.
