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May 2023

Museumology 2: Unspinning the Stories

16th May 2023 @ 14:00 - 16:00
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Free
painted hand print

This is a free taster session (although donations to Frome Museum are welcome) to give participants a chance to…

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Wet Felting Workshop

16th May 2023 @ 18:30 - 21:00
Cheese and Grain, Market Yard
Frome, BA11 1BE
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£25
felt picture

Wool, an environmentally friendly and sustainable fibre from this region, has typically been used for weaving cloth and…

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Two Thousand Days

16th May 2023 @ 19:30
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An event every day that begins at 7:30pm, repeating until 17th May 2023

Rook Lane Chapel, Rook Lane, Bath Street
Frome, BA11 1DN
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£8.50
cast of two thousand days

A new production by Dramakarma. On September 1 1939, two days before the outbreak of war, an entire…

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Dissenters Walk

17th May 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:15
Outside Frome Library, Justice Lane
Frome, Somerset BA11 1BE United Kingdom
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£5
"Dissenters"

In the 1660s English society experiences religious, social and industrial upheavals. In Frome, Molly-Ann and her brothers Ben and…

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Museumology 3: Letting the Objects Speak

17th May 2023 @ 14:00 - 16:00
£10
painted hand print

Museumology is a series of workshops taking place during Frome Local History Festival (12th-20th May) that explores different aspects…

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Indigo with Itajame Workshop

18th May 2023 @ 10:00 - 13:00
Welshmill Hub, Park Hill Drive
Frome, Somerset BA11 2LE
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£20
dyed cloth

Natural dyes, in particular indigo, have been used to dye fabric blue for thousands of years. Frome was…

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Weaving on a Frame Loom Workshop

18th May 2023 @ 18:00 - 21:00
Cheese and Grain, Market Yard
Frome, BA11 1BE
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£20
weaving on a loom

All household garments, packing and storage, were woven by hand until the industrial revolution. Until 1965, Frome was…

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Museumology 4: Feeling Dressed

19th May 2023 @ 14:00 - 15:30
£10
antique clothing

Museumology is a series of workshops within Frome Local History Festival (12th-20th May) that explores different aspects of the…

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A hundred years of Frome Council Houses

19th May 2023 @ 18:30 - 20:30
Frome Town Hall, Christchurch Street West
Frome, BA11 1EB
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Free
old photo of Frome

Frome-born Judith Loughlin explains how, following the Addison Act 1918, council housing came to Frome. She explores the…

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Natural Dyeing Workshop

20th May 2023 @ 10:00 - 12:00
Cheese and Grain, Market Yard
Frome, BA11 1BE
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£10
Plum Stitch & Dye logo

Until the 1860s all cloth and yarn was dyed with plant dyes, blue from woad, red from madder…

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Local History Day

20th May 2023 @ 10:00 - 15:00
Frome Library, Justice Lane
Frome, BA11 1BE
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Free
Old photograph of Frome Market Place

Come and find out about Frome's past and those involved with it. The event will see attendance of…

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Frome Heritage Tree Walk

20th May 2023 @ 15:00 - 16:30
Outside Frome Library, Justice Lane
Frome, Somerset BA11 1BE United Kingdom
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£7
heritage tree walk 2022

Join local author and heritage tree specialist Julian Hight on a walk to see some of Frome’s most…

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