The Mill will be closed for maintenance over the winter period.

2010 Special Events at the Mill

Easter Fayre:  Monday 5th April 11am - 1pm.

Milling Weekend:  Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May 11am - 5pm.

Milling Weekend:  Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July 11am - 5pm.

Milling Weekend:  Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September 11am - 5pm.

The Museum and Museum Shop current opening hours are: 10.00am-12.30 pm, Monday and Friday and Saturday.

 

Talks, Presentations and Special Events from the Museum:  

 

 Please note that, to be fair to speakers, all talks will commence promptly at the advertised time. You are requested to be seated at least 15 minutes before.

Tickets for each event are available at the door, and will be £5 for non members; £4 for Sturminster Newton Mill and Museum Society members £4 for students and 50p for under 18s.

Where appropriate presenters are encouraged to bring along their books and publications offering them for sale and signing.  There is absolutely no obligation to purchase however.

For advance bookings cheques should be made payable to: Sturminster Newton Museum & Mill Society, and sent,with a SAE, to:

Dave Durkin
Little Acorn
Rolls Mills
Sturminster Newton DT10 2HP

Advance tickets may also be purchased from the museum

For further information please ring 01258 473179. 
e-mail dmjdurkin@aol.com    

 

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
Wednesday 3rd February 2010	David Mousser	The Shillingston Station Project	Stour Hall	The Shillingstone Railway Project has its roots in the late 1990s when the North Dorset Railway Trust was formed.  The site was acquired after three and a half years of protracted negotiations with Dorset County Council allowing restoration work to begin in November 2003.  The station saw its first locomotive for over 40 years in 2005 and work continues to restore the station to its former glory.  David will recall the story of this important heritage project and any profit from tonight's talk will be shared equally between the Museum Society and the station project.
Wednesday 3rd March 2010	Dr. Miles Russell	King Arthur - the truth at last?	Stour Hall	Dr. Miles Russell is a senior lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University.  He has over 30 years experience of archaeological field work and publication.  he has been a regular contributor to television and radio programmes and has recently appeared on Time Team, The Seven Ages of Britain, Landscape Mysteries, Timewatch and the One Show. His most recent work includes investigating the written works of Geoffrey of Monmouth (c1100-1155).  Best known for his chronicle 'Historia Regum Brittanniae' ('History of the Kings of Britain'), an early Medieval bestseller, the British clergyman was the most significant figure in the development of early British history and was ultimately responsible for the popular tales of the heroic King Arthur and Merlin that we know today. Dr. Russell's work on this and other early Latin, English and Welsh texts has shed new light on both the man 'Arthur' and the crucial periods of pre and post Roman Britain, and the work is about to be published in a book entitled 'Born in Blood'.  Can we at last put questions on the legendary King Arthur to bed.
Wednesday 7th April 2010	Julian Richards	Wessex from the Air - 20 years on.	Stour Hall	Julian is an archaeologist, broadcater and writer and is best known as the presenter of BBC programmes 'Meet the Ancestors' and 'Blood of the Vikings'.  In this talk Julian will celebrate the work of early pioneering aerial archaeologists Alexander Keiller (of marmalade fame) and OGS Crawford.  In 1928 they published 'Weesex from the Air' illustrated with aerial photographs of some of Wessex's most famous and iconic sites and landscapes includinglocal favourites Hambledon Hill and Hod Hill, and, of course, Avebury and Stonehenge. Comparing the original images with more recent aerial views, Julian will chart not only the changes in the Wessex landscape that have taken place over the past 80 years, but also the changes in our understanding of these much loved sites.
Wednesday 12th May 2010	Roger Gutteridge	My ancestors and other smugglers	Bow Room
Wednesday 2nd June  2010	Dr. Mark Corney	The reoccupation of Iron Age Hillforts.	Stour Hall

  Please note that for navigation purposes the address of The Exchange is:

Old Market Hill
Sturminster Newton, DT10 1QU
Tel: 01258 475137