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Friends of the Somerset Rural Life Museum

Membership Benefits

• Newsletter 3 times a year
• Previews of exhibitions
• Lectures and demonstrations e.g. Dry Stone Walling, Bee Keeping, Pillow Lace Making and Cooking on the Range

• Outings e.g. to Bletchley Park, other museums
• Behind the scenes tours
• Meet the curators
• Research Work such as;
  
  • Cheese-making
  • Cider-making
  • Farming in the 1930s
  • Morlands former Sheepskin Business
  • The Mendips and its people
    
    
• Involvement with running Barn Tea Room

• Involvement with running Barn Shop

• Help with Educational Activities

• Somerset Rural Life Oral Archive - began in a small way when it became apparent that with the great technological advances that followed World War II, many of the old rural crafts and ways of life were rapidly disappearing.
  The collection which is available to all, now contains over 453 recordings amongst which the traditional Somerset Industries are well represented.
  Help is needed with transcribing, scanning and digitising the collection.

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