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The Rugby School Museum, which has audio-visual displays about the history of Rugby School and of the town. The combined Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. The art gallery contains a nationally recognised collection of contemporary art. The museum contains, amongst other things, Roman artefacts dug up from the nearby Roman settlement of Tripontium.
Rugby, Aspects of the Past, and Rugby, Further Aspects of the Past, by the Rugby Local History Group. Rugby: A Pictorial History, by E.W. Timmins (1990) ISBN 0-85033-700-3; Rugby's Railway Heritage, by Peter H Elliot (1985) ISBN 0-907917-06-2; Rugby Growth of a Town, by Eddy Rawlins & Andy Osborne (1988)
The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including a Gilbert football of the kind used at Rugby School that was exhibited at the first World's Fair, [3] [4] [5] at the Great Exhibition in London and the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the rubber bladder for rugby balls) brass hand pump. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still ...
The museum hosts a collection of Roman artefacts, excavated from the nearby Roman town of Tripontium. [5] It also has a display of the social and industrial history of Rugby, [6] [2] and the "Redding Collection" of some 25,000 mid-20th-century photographic negatives taken at the Rugby photographic studio of George Redding. [7]
The Rugby School Museum, which has audio-visual displays about the history of Rugby School and of the town. Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. The art gallery contains a nationally recognised collection of contemporary art. The museum contains, amongst other things, Roman artefacts dug up from the nearby Roman settlement of Tripontium.
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The first record of a church at the site was from 1140, originally as a chapel of ease of the mother church at nearby Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, until Rugby became a parish in 1221, and the chapel was upgraded to a parish church. Nothing is thought to remain of the original church, as it is believed to have been sited some metres away from the ...
The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City on Wednesday showed off an excavated century-old time capsule, revealing a cornucopia of early 20th-century relics, artifacts and documents.