Last month we had the pleasure of welcoming John Ambler to the cave. He very generously performed scans of the cave by using 3D Gaussian splattering. This is a rendering technique that represents a scene as thousands or millions of tiny 3D Gaussian blobs, which can be projected and blended extremely quickly to create smooth, […]
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We’re thrilled to have our doors open and to be welcoming visitors back to the Museum! We have a new layout with new displays full of objects and information about Royston’s past, plus lots of hands-on activities for families to enjoy. You can visit us Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm – and it’s free!
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Operation Overlord: The Fate Of D-Day Is In Your Hands In this exclusive collaboration with Royston Museum, Great Escapists are proud to launch Royston’s first Escape Room experience. Operation Overlord is an immersive game experience with live actors, where you solve puzzles and clues to complete a mission – and learn more about the real-life
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Merchandise may seem a recent commercial development, but during the medieval period there were mass-produced metal badges sold at holy shrines as proof of pilgrimage, and to identify the wearer for hospitality. There is one badge, of Richard Caister, that has been identified which bears a resemblance to the carving in the cave situated in
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We’re well under-way with our two exciting developments at the Museum: to install air source heat pumps, and to update the Museum’s displays. One of our first jobs in January was to empty our display cases and to move them to enable the installation of our new heating system. Once the new heating units are
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Are you looking for a reason to get out into the fresh air this January? Discover Royston’s Historic Town Trail! You may have noticed the triangular bronze markers embedded into the pavement throughout the Town Centre. These mark a 31-point history trail, starting at Royston Parish Church, taking in such points as: Dead Street –
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Spotlight On – Royston Town Football Club Celebrates 150 Years! Founded in 1875 “The Crows” are the third oldest club in Hertfordshire after Hitchin and Bishops Stortford and in December this year the Club will be celebrating its 150th anniversary. It really is a truly remarkable achievement when you think that Disraeli was Prime
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On the western side of Royston Cave stands Saint Catherine, holding the infamous spiked wheel associated with her martyrdom. At the age of 14, Catherine experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus, who placed a ring on her finger. She subsequently converted to Christianity and dedicated her life to the Church.
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Don’t miss out on the fabulous exhibition on the history of the Royston Crow newspaper and the Warren family who founded it, at Royston Museum, running until Sunday 9th November. The paper was founded in 1855 and the exhibition tells the story of how the printed word was brought to Royston. We were delighted to
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Continuing our republished series, “A Question of Royston”, covering the little-known history of Royston, as written by the late Councillor F John Smith (1932-2021). Highwaymen Real and Imagined Until Angel Pavement was built in the 1960s there was a pub at the Market Hill end of the site called the Red Lion. This was Royston’s
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The Royston Arts Festival theme of Then and Now has given us the opportunity to share a rare glimpse of the Cave floor. We are fortunate to have many old drawings and photographs of the cave and the carvings, which we will be sharing during our special Arts Festival evening at the cave. This photograph
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Since 1943, the Royal Air Forces Association has championed a simple belief – that no member of the RAF community should ever be left without the help that they need. Not since WWII has the RAF been so constantly deployed on global operations and across the generations, the need for support is becoming ever more
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