Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre
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Redbridge Museum explores the many different people, places & events which are part of the history of Redbridge.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum
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OPEN NOW: Redbridge and the Second World War
An exhibition by Redbridge Museum marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
📅 Until Saturday 30 August 2026
📍 First floor, Redbridge Central Library
🎟️ Free admission
🔗 vrcl.uk/museum-ww2
An exhibition by Redbridge Museum marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
📅 Until Saturday 30 August 2026
📍 First floor, Redbridge Central Library
🎟️ Free admission
🔗 vrcl.uk/museum-ww2
Peek in through the not-so-frosty windows of our 1900 House this Christmas to imagine cosying up by the #WarmFire! ❄️
Can you spot some more Christmassy objects on display here?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
Can you spot some more Christmassy objects on display here?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Peek in through the not-so-frosty windows of our 1900 House this Christmas to imagine cosying up by the #WarmFire! ❄️
Can you spot some more Christmassy objects on display here?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
Can you spot some more Christmassy objects on display here?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
Don’t miss the Redbridge Museum Christmas trail! 🎄
Peek into our freshly decorated room-sets and displays to find Christmas objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves 🔎
Simply drop in anytime that we’re open (see poster for hours) and pick up a trail from the front desk to take part.
Peek into our freshly decorated room-sets and displays to find Christmas objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves 🔎
Simply drop in anytime that we’re open (see poster for hours) and pick up a trail from the front desk to take part.
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Don’t miss the Redbridge Museum Christmas trail! 🎄
Peek into our freshly decorated room-sets and displays to find Christmas objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves 🔎
Simply drop in anytime that we’re open (see poster for hours) and pick up a trail from the front desk to take part.
Peek into our freshly decorated room-sets and displays to find Christmas objects hidden around the Museum by some naughty elves 🔎
Simply drop in anytime that we’re open (see poster for hours) and pick up a trail from the front desk to take part.
Local company Kelvin Hughes made navigational equipment from their factory in Hainault from 1917 until 2012, and rewarded employees and their families with big themed parties every Christmas!
This one took place in the 1960s – can you guess the theme?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bluesky.social
This one took place in the 1960s – can you guess the theme?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bluesky.social
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Local company Kelvin Hughes made navigational equipment from their factory in Hainault from 1917 until 2012, and rewarded employees and their families with big themed parties every Christmas!
This one took place in the 1960s – can you guess the theme?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bluesky.social
This one took place in the 1960s – can you guess the theme?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bluesky.social
📢 Redbridge Museum will have slightly different opening hours during the Christmas period. Please take note of the times on our poster so you can plan your visit accordingly!
We will resume our normal opening hours (Tues-Sat 11-5) from Friday 2 January.
We will resume our normal opening hours (Tues-Sat 11-5) from Friday 2 January.
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📢 Redbridge Museum will have slightly different opening hours during the Christmas period. Please take note of the times on our poster so you can plan your visit accordingly!
We will resume our normal opening hours (Tues-Sat 11-5) from Friday 2 January.
We will resume our normal opening hours (Tues-Sat 11-5) from Friday 2 January.
Our new volunteer Maya has been listing our Kenneth More Theatre programmes and has found one for a production of The Wizard of Oz from Spring 1986.
Follow the yellow brick road to Redbridge Drama Centre this Christmas to see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: visionrcl.org.uk/events/the-w...
#PantoDay
Follow the yellow brick road to Redbridge Drama Centre this Christmas to see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: visionrcl.org.uk/events/the-w...
#PantoDay
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our new volunteer Maya has been listing our Kenneth More Theatre programmes and has found one for a production of The Wizard of Oz from Spring 1986.
Follow the yellow brick road to Redbridge Drama Centre this Christmas to see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: visionrcl.org.uk/events/the-w...
#PantoDay
Follow the yellow brick road to Redbridge Drama Centre this Christmas to see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: visionrcl.org.uk/events/the-w...
#PantoDay
It’s Christmas Jumper Day! Are you going for a novelty jumper or a more traditional one, like this jumper featured on the cover of a 1940s knitting pattern purchased from a shop on Ilford Lane 🧶
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It’s Christmas Jumper Day! Are you going for a novelty jumper or a more traditional one, like this jumper featured on the cover of a 1940s knitting pattern purchased from a shop on Ilford Lane 🧶
Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme is #ChristmasCards – here’s one sent from Alf Harrison to his mother in Barking in the early 1900s 💌
Look out for this card on display in our 1900 House room-set this month!
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Look out for this card on display in our 1900 House room-set this month!
@arascot.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme is #ChristmasCards – here’s one sent from Alf Harrison to his mother in Barking in the early 1900s 💌
Look out for this card on display in our 1900 House room-set this month!
@arascot.bsky.social
Look out for this card on display in our 1900 House room-set this month!
@arascot.bsky.social
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Our August Newsletter is now up on the website to read (and enjoy!).
We're all over the map this time with articles about Redbridge, Gants Hill, Goodmayes, Valentines Mansion, Barkingside, and Ilford.
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We're all over the map this time with articles about Redbridge, Gants Hill, Goodmayes, Valentines Mansion, Barkingside, and Ilford.
ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/...
ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Our August Newsletter is now up on the website to read (and enjoy!).
We're all over the map this time with articles about Redbridge, Gants Hill, Goodmayes, Valentines Mansion, Barkingside, and Ilford.
ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/...
We're all over the map this time with articles about Redbridge, Gants Hill, Goodmayes, Valentines Mansion, Barkingside, and Ilford.
ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/...
Patients and a nurse make a Christmas pudding on the Children’s Ward at King George Hospital, Ilford, about 1930 🥄
#FestiveFood #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
#FestiveFood #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Patients and a nurse make a Christmas pudding on the Children’s Ward at King George Hospital, Ilford, about 1930 🥄
#FestiveFood #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
#FestiveFood #ArchiveAdventCalendar @arascot.bsky.social
A slightly different but still beloved kind of Christmas #Tree for #ArchiveAdventCalendar today! 🌳
For Christmas 1993, carol singers gathered around the sweet chestnut tree on George Green as part of protests against its removal to make way for the M11 Link Road through Wanstead.
For Christmas 1993, carol singers gathered around the sweet chestnut tree on George Green as part of protests against its removal to make way for the M11 Link Road through Wanstead.
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A slightly different but still beloved kind of Christmas #Tree for #ArchiveAdventCalendar today! 🌳
For Christmas 1993, carol singers gathered around the sweet chestnut tree on George Green as part of protests against its removal to make way for the M11 Link Road through Wanstead.
For Christmas 1993, carol singers gathered around the sweet chestnut tree on George Green as part of protests against its removal to make way for the M11 Link Road through Wanstead.
For today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar treat, a brilliant shot of Library staff turned #CarolSingers with the Barkingside Silver Band on 20 December 1948 🎶
@arascot.bsky.social
@arascot.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For today’s #ArchiveAdventCalendar treat, a brilliant shot of Library staff turned #CarolSingers with the Barkingside Silver Band on 20 December 1948 🎶
@arascot.bsky.social
@arascot.bsky.social
One pampered Pekingese for #ExploreYourArchive #EYAPets! Here is the ironically-named Rags atop his velvet cushion in the yard of Grove Farm Dairy, Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, 1920s 🐶
🔗 Find out more about local rural history at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
🔗 Find out more about local rural history at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
One pampered Pekingese for #ExploreYourArchive #EYAPets! Here is the ironically-named Rags atop his velvet cushion in the yard of Grove Farm Dairy, Nightingale Lane, Wanstead, 1920s 🐶
🔗 Find out more about local rural history at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
🔗 Find out more about local rural history at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
These are the contents of a small tin purse once owned by Elizabeth O'Donoghue, mother of Dennis and Reginald O'Donoghue, two soldiers who were both killed in the Battle of Passchendaele during the First World War.
The items include letters, a postage stamp, small tools, pencils and jewellery.
The items include letters, a postage stamp, small tools, pencils and jewellery.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
These are the contents of a small tin purse once owned by Elizabeth O'Donoghue, mother of Dennis and Reginald O'Donoghue, two soldiers who were both killed in the Battle of Passchendaele during the First World War.
The items include letters, a postage stamp, small tools, pencils and jewellery.
The items include letters, a postage stamp, small tools, pencils and jewellery.
Just a few of the very artistic shots in the archive of photographic company Ilford Limited, who set up in Ilford in 1879 and manufactured photographic glass plates, film and more from their factory on Roden Street until 1976. #Museum30
Find out more at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Find out more at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just a few of the very artistic shots in the archive of photographic company Ilford Limited, who set up in Ilford in 1879 and manufactured photographic glass plates, film and more from their factory on Roden Street until 1976. #Museum30
Find out more at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Find out more at Redbridge Museum: visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Any guesses as to what major local road is shown in this photo from our collection, taken in 1928? 🛣️
Hint: though it’s much busier today, it was once quiet enough for a mum and her baby in a pram to cross in the middle of it!
Hint: though it’s much busier today, it was once quiet enough for a mum and her baby in a pram to cross in the middle of it!
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Any guesses as to what major local road is shown in this photo from our collection, taken in 1928? 🛣️
Hint: though it’s much busier today, it was once quiet enough for a mum and her baby in a pram to cross in the middle of it!
Hint: though it’s much busier today, it was once quiet enough for a mum and her baby in a pram to cross in the middle of it!
Something heavy for #Museum30 – some of the dumb-bells in our collection once belonging to Victorian strongman Sydney Sewell (‘Ihonart’) who in 1913 set up a School of Physical Culture on Henley Road, Ilford, which offered fitness, bodybuilding and weightlifting training 🏋🏻
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Something heavy for #Museum30 – some of the dumb-bells in our collection once belonging to Victorian strongman Sydney Sewell (‘Ihonart’) who in 1913 set up a School of Physical Culture on Henley Road, Ilford, which offered fitness, bodybuilding and weightlifting training 🏋🏻
This bold and bright rainbow shawl was crocheted by Heather Wright in the first week of the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. In the second image, Heather is wearing the shawl during the Easter weekend in 2021 🌈
The shawl is now on display in the Moving Stories section of Redbridge Museum. #Museum30
The shawl is now on display in the Moving Stories section of Redbridge Museum. #Museum30
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This bold and bright rainbow shawl was crocheted by Heather Wright in the first week of the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. In the second image, Heather is wearing the shawl during the Easter weekend in 2021 🌈
The shawl is now on display in the Moving Stories section of Redbridge Museum. #Museum30
The shawl is now on display in the Moving Stories section of Redbridge Museum. #Museum30
A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A lovely piece from our collection for today’s #Museum30 theme of Stitch – a ‘Friendship Cloth’, owned and used by the donor’s grandmother, Sylvia Ashbridge of Grove Park, Wanstead, who had friends visiting for tea sign and embroider (or embroidered herself) their names from around the year 1870. 🪡
To remember Ilford citizens killed in the war, a memorial plaque and book was unveiled in Ilford Town Hall in April 1949.
This is now available to view at Redbridge Heritage Centre.
This is now available to view at Redbridge Heritage Centre.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To remember Ilford citizens killed in the war, a memorial plaque and book was unveiled in Ilford Town Hall in April 1949.
This is now available to view at Redbridge Heritage Centre.
This is now available to view at Redbridge Heritage Centre.
It may not have been built for Bonfire Night, but this bonfire in Ilford on 9 May 1945 was for a bigger celebration – Victory in Europe after the Second World War. Resourceful as ever, residents have laid down the remains of an Anderson shelter to protect the road tarmac from the fire.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It may not have been built for Bonfire Night, but this bonfire in Ilford on 9 May 1945 was for a bigger celebration – Victory in Europe after the Second World War. Resourceful as ever, residents have laid down the remains of an Anderson shelter to protect the road tarmac from the fire.
For today’s #Museum30, we’re re-sharing this Reel we made for National Doodle Day revealing the pages of an Ilford pupil’s school sketchbook from 1910! ✏️
www.instagram.com/p/DPEB_tZDCb5/
www.instagram.com/p/DPEB_tZDCb5/
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
For today’s #Museum30, we’re re-sharing this Reel we made for National Doodle Day revealing the pages of an Ilford pupil’s school sketchbook from 1910! ✏️
www.instagram.com/p/DPEB_tZDCb5/
www.instagram.com/p/DPEB_tZDCb5/
Spooky season may be over but there’s more than meets the eye to this miniature carved wooden figure from our collection! This is an example of a mechanical Kobe toy or doll produced as a souvenir in Japan in the early 20th century 👹 #Museum30
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Spooky season may be over but there’s more than meets the eye to this miniature carved wooden figure from our collection! This is an example of a mechanical Kobe toy or doll produced as a souvenir in Japan in the early 20th century 👹 #Museum30
Excited for our first #Museum30 on Bluesky! 🏦
To reintroduce ourselves – Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre is the local history museum and archive service for the London Borough of Redbridge. We explore stories of the diverse local people, places and events that make up the history of Redbridge.
To reintroduce ourselves – Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre is the local history museum and archive service for the London Borough of Redbridge. We explore stories of the diverse local people, places and events that make up the history of Redbridge.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Excited for our first #Museum30 on Bluesky! 🏦
To reintroduce ourselves – Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre is the local history museum and archive service for the London Borough of Redbridge. We explore stories of the diverse local people, places and events that make up the history of Redbridge.
To reintroduce ourselves – Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre is the local history museum and archive service for the London Borough of Redbridge. We explore stories of the diverse local people, places and events that make up the history of Redbridge.
Happy Halloween! Watch out for all things creepy crawly in your travels tonight 👀
These spooky spiders were handmade by local resident Gladys Harrison and now live very harmlessly in our museum store! 🕷️
These spooky spiders were handmade by local resident Gladys Harrison and now live very harmlessly in our museum store! 🕷️
October 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy Halloween! Watch out for all things creepy crawly in your travels tonight 👀
These spooky spiders were handmade by local resident Gladys Harrison and now live very harmlessly in our museum store! 🕷️
These spooky spiders were handmade by local resident Gladys Harrison and now live very harmlessly in our museum store! 🕷️
See Black History Month out this week with our short film ‘Memories of Windrush’, exploring the memories and experiences of Redbridge’s Windrush generation using interviews by Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre from 2002 to 2018.
🔗 Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1...
🔗 Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1...
Memories of Windrush
Using interviews conducted by Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre from 2002 to 2018, this film explores the memories and experiences of the Windrush generation who settled in the London Borough of…
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October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
See Black History Month out this week with our short film ‘Memories of Windrush’, exploring the memories and experiences of Redbridge’s Windrush generation using interviews by Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre from 2002 to 2018.
🔗 Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1...
🔗 Watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYC1...