Monthly Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… Earlier this year, the Museum was awarded the Environmental Sustainability Award at the Hertfordshire Association of Museums’ annual awards. We’re thrilled to have been recognised for our work to become a more environmentally conscientious organisation. Three of our volunteers were also recognised as Heritage Heroes for their contributions […]
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Monthly Update – From Emma, Royston Cave Manager… April is an exciting month for Royston Cave because we begin our 2025 public tour season. The steps have been swept, the cobwebs dusted away, and the guides are ready to begin their tours. Tour prices have been frozen for this year, and times have slightly increased,
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Continuing our republished series, “A Question of Royston”, covering the little-known history of Royston, as written by true Roystonian, the late Councillor F John Smith (1932-2021. Royston has long been known as a town in barley-growing country, hence when the Spaniards threatened a blockade to cut off imports of wine to England, Queen Elizabeth is
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Monthly Update – From Emma, Royston Cave Manager… On the 24th of March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died without a direct heir. King James VI of Scotland, her closest relative, became King James I of Scotland and England. He stopped at Royston on 30th April 1603 as he made his way to London for the
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Monthly Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… The Museum’s doors are now open again following our winter closure. I want to say a massive well done and thank you to Sophie, our Curator, the staff and the volunteers for their hard work on an incredible project to upgrade our Collections Stores. It has been
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2025 marks 20 years of The Listing, and as such, we have been looking back through our archives and are republishing a popular series which first appeared back in 2009, and bringing Royston’s history to a new audience of readers. “A Question of Royston” covers the little-known history of Royston, as written by true Roystonian,
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Monthly Update – From Emma, Royston Cave Manager… Apart from the cross symbol, the shape of a heart appears more times within the cave than any other. There are double hearts, hearts within a hand, or hearts displayed on the tunics of figures carved on the chalk walls. It is not known when the shape
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February Update: From Emma – Museum Curator… Our year started with the installation of the new bespoke storage in our Collections Store and Art Store. Over two days, a small team transformed both rooms, leaving them barely recognisable compared to just a few weeks ago. Since then, Sophie and Francesca, our new Collections Assistant,
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Regular readers will know that Museum is closed over the winter whilst we upgrade our main Collections Store and smaller Art Store thanks to generous funding from the North Herts Prosperity Fund and the Brian Leslie Racher Trust. December has focused on clearing the stores and carrying out maintenance work. Over three days
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The year 2025 will hopefully be a time of exciting developments at Royston Cave. As you read this, reports and recommendations are being made by Historic England, detailing the best way forward to help preserve the cave and its carvings. Once these have been finalised, the process of applying for a National Lottery Heritage Fund
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If you read my article in last month’s edition, then you’ll know I’ve been nervously waiting for the outcome of some funding applications. Well, I am thrilled to share that those applications have been successful. Thanks to generous funding from the North Herts Prosperity Fund and the Brian Leslie Racher Trust we’re going
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Conservation and preservation of the Cave and its carvings are always our priority, and because of this, we have been visited several times this autumn by Historic England. They are assisting us with surveys and providing recommendations so we can ensure that this unique Grade 1 Listed Monument is protected from issues such as water
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