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Local amateur historian and Axminster Heritage Centre volunteer, David Knapman has been awarded the prestigious W.G Hoskins Prize for his book, ‘Unsteady Progress – A History of Axminster from [...]

Heritage Alive introduces its all new FAMILY FUN DAY coach trips this August!   Heritage Alive are delighted to announce that our first-ever FAMILY FUN DAY coach trip is on Friday 27th [...]

Throughout Covid-19 Axminster Heritage Centre’s priority has been to safeguard its volunteers and visitors. On Monday July 19th the government is set to remove all current restrictions but are [...]

As the 14th Century proverb by Chaucer states, ‘All good things must come to an end’ and so it was that last week saw the end of our online ‘Axminster Heritage Blue Plaque [...]

Interested in ‘Gardening for Wildlife?’ Sign up for our online talk on making your garden more habitable for wildlife on Thursday 25th February at 6:30pm. Cost £3.50 with Axminster [...]

If you haven’t already, check out this great article on the Heritage Centre by Axminster Nub News including a podcast featuring our very own volunteer David Knapman, author of [...]

On this day in history in 1860 Axminster Railway Station opened, officially linking the town up to Exeter as part of the London and South Western Railway’s (LSWR) main line between London [...]

WHAT DO THESE TWO BUILDINGS IN AXMINSTER AND OTTERY ST. MARY HAVE IN COMMON?  Image: Axminster Heritage Centre Image courtesy of Sands of Time Consultancy ANSWER:  Bidwell Brothers.   In [...]

Just as we went into lock-down all those weeks ago, Axminster Heritage Centre was preparing to launch a new history of the town, written by one of our volunteers, David Knapman. It’s called [...]

  Quite apart from its health impacts, Covid-19 is dramatically re-shaping the social and economic components of our lives. Now is the time to record these changes, because when restrictions [...]