Frome Heritage Museum
Frome has been visited by many noteworthy people, men and women, and the town has been often chosen by them as their home. Frome Heritage Museum holds many documents, photographs and portraits of these people from King Edred in the 10th century to Jenson Button in the 21st century. Here are some of them:
Recent exhibitions about J W Singer and Sir Benjamin Baker have been called ‘Casting the World’ and ‘Bridging the World’.
read moreSo declared the Duke of Monmouth, the Protestant illegitimate son of Charles II, as he started out on his ill-fated voyage to Lyme Regis en route to a military engagement with the Catholic James II on the Somerset Levels near Westonzoyland.
read moreAnother famous and much more recent son of Frome is the 2009 Formula 1 world champion, Jenson Button.
read moreEadred was a grandson of Alfred the Great and was born around AD 923.
read moreBorn in Frome Mary Baily as part of her will, gifted the playing fields now named after her as a recreation ground for the children of Frome.
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