Food Stories Coming Here – June 19th

The Food Museum, formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life, is going on the road! They are touring their exhibition ‘Food Stories’ to communities across East Anglia arriving in the Orpen Hall on 19th June from 10 am until 4 pm. You can also get involved in the event yourself.

What are Food Stories?

‘Food Stories’ celebrates East Anglian recipes, cooking, farming techniques and dialect words that have been passed down through generations. The centrepiece of the exhibition will be a farm kitchen table featuring:

Farmers and workers at hayricks — Farmers Picnic?

local recipes,
photos,
sound recordings and
objects from their collection.

Visitors will be able to sit at, and engage with, the displays; you can also contribute your own recipes and memories to the exhibition. You will hear historic sound recordings from the region of people talking about their food and farming memories. Visitors can also participate in the University of Leeds’ cutting-edge dialect research by contributing their own dialect words.

Make your own contribution

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019

Art Lovers Help Raise Hundreds – 320 visitors!

Art Lovers Help Raise Hundreds

Art lovers turned out in their hundreds to visit the Art Show in the Old Church. In just 10 hours over the weekend of 15th – 16th June 320 visitors came to enjoy an art exhibition. Local artists had produced 185 works of art for the exhibition. The artists had used a variety of mediums to produce paintings which ranged in size from small to supersize.

The Friends of St Mary’s Old Church received Continue reading “Art Lovers Help Raise Hundreds – 320 visitors!”

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019

Art in the Old Church – 150 Exhibits Confirmed

Art in the Old Church

The Art in the Old Church exhibition is now fully subscribed. Taking place on 15th & 16th of June between 11 am – 4 pm, you can expect to see over 150 exhibits. All exhibits are by 47 local artists and many are for sale.

As well as a panoply of art you can also enjoy Continue reading “Art in the Old Church – 150 Exhibits Confirmed”

May 22, 2019

St Mary’s – Royal Arms, Havard and Art

Bluebells Pre-School contributions to the Exhibition

St Mary’s – Royal Arms, Havard and Art

Peter Noakes’ recent talk about St Mary’s Through Time, focussing on the Royal Arms and Rev Havard, was very well supported. (Read more below). Progress in setting up the Art Exhibition is well underway but more works would be much appreciated. The Friends of St Mary’s report as follows:

Art In The Old Church

The Friends have had a lot of interest in their forthcoming art exhibition. This takes place over the weekend of 15th-16th June but so far only about 20 people have submitted forms. They welcome budding Continue reading “St Mary’s – Royal Arms, Havard and Art”

May 11, 2019

St Mary’s Through Time

Local Historian Peter Noakes will be talking about St Mary’s Through Time on Saturday 18th of May. He will answer puzzles such as:

who was the Rector at St Mary’s for an amazing 48 years, and
why is there a Royal Coat of Arms on the wall?

The talk, which is being held in the Old Church, will start at 2:30 pm. Entry is free and accompanied Continue reading “St Mary’s Through Time”

April 8, 2015

Neighbourhood Plan Exhibition & Consultation

How will West Bergholt change over the next 20 years?

Visit the Neighbourhood Plan exhibition at the Orpen Hall, on Saturdays 11th and 18th April 11am to 4pm, to find out how the Neighbourhood Plan Group would respond to this question; refreshments will be available. But the Neighbourhood Plan Group really need your views as well and are looking for a response from as many people as possible. It takes about 20 minutes to view the exhibition, if you want to discuss any of the proposals, members of the steering group will be available.

Do you like their suggestions? If not, tell them why? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE, TO HAVE YOUR SAY.

Find out more on our website at:

July 14, 2014December 4, 2014

Exhibitions at St Mary’s Old Church

St Mary’s are hosting 2 exhibitions in the coming month, one of art by local artists and another staged by the local History Group.

Art Exhibition

Currently being exhibited, are some large paintings which were painted by village resident, John Newman. They were displayed in St. Mary’s Church in New Church Road during West Bergholt’s Open Gardens weekend. The paintings feature gardens that were mentioned in the Bible including the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane. Appropriate verses from the Bible and information about these gardens are displayed alongside the paintings.

There is also some art work created by the children at Bluebells Pre-School. This exhibition will be displayed in the church for the next two weeks.

History Exhibition

The second exhibition is being staged by the West Bergholt History Group to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1. This will be a small display from 2nd – 9th August.