Exhibitions

Come and see our lovely photographs of old Bedworth Shops.  Do you remember Stubbs, Sayers and Fred Starkeys.  Did you shop at J C Smiths Department Store?

The Heritage Centre will be closed from 2 December 2023 until early in February, when we will have a new exhibition.

Please let me know if you have a suggestion for exhibitions in the future.

We apologise for the delay in opening the Heritage Centre.  We had a flood through the ceiling a few weeks ago, and following the heavy rainfall during the last few months, the damp is now coming through the wall.  We hope to have more news for you soon.

Before the days of jetting off to the sunshine in the Med, people in Bedworth went off to the sun in Blackpool, Skegness or a Butlins holiday camp.  Bedworth Rotary organised holidays  over  50,000 holidays in B&B guest homes in Blackpool.  Some people just enjoyed a day trip on Paynes Coaches.  We have photos of it all!

Emotional messages sent from the First World War trenches are included in our new exhibition at Bedworth Heritage Centre.

Called "Kiss Ethel for Me" it is being staged to coincide with Armistice Day.

On display will be excerpts from about 100 letters sent back to Bedworth by a local lad, Tom Harrison, who was killed in 1918, aged 21.

Ryan Malpas has borrowed the Heritage Centre to raise funds for the Children's Ward at University Hospital.  Ryan has lots of lovely prizes, so go along and have a look.

Come along and see how Bedworth looked during the 1940s, and read extracts from the school log books during World War II.  Bedworth residents had to remember to take their gas masks everywhere, as well as their Identification Cards.