Axminster Museum

Axminster Museum tells the tale of Axminster’s beyond – its early beginnings as Stone and Bronze Age settlements, the significance of the waters of the River Axe and of Axminster as a river crossing factor for Romans and different visitors, the significance of farming and the increase of industry in particular the tale of Thomas Whitty and the history of his carpet enterprise. New shows for 2017 include greater approximately the modern-day Axminster Carpets commenced by way of the Dutfield circle of relatives in 1937 and extra approximately the city’s essential brush making enterprise. They show Axminster to be not most effective enterprising but resilient, especially throughout instances of battle. Visitors will study from an eye fixed-witness Parliamentarian account, as an instance, that the town turned into almost completely destroyed by way of hearth at some point of the English Civil War.

Displays additionally highlight a number of the Eminent Victorians who shaped Axminster. They consist of nearby historian George Pulman, creator of the 'Book of the Axe'; Emily Conybeare, founding father of the city's original Cottage Hospital and James Davidson creator of ‘A History of the Town and Parish of Axminster’. Fellow Victorian Dean William Buckland, one in every of Britain's leading geologists, is the anchor for a new iety of geological specimens. His captivating account of the large Axmouth landslip of 1839 brings alive this stretch of the coast, adding a new measurement to the coastal walk between Seaton and Lyme.