History society needs a home

Published on 27/01/2013 08:00

Local historians are desperate to find a permanent home for the archives and artefacts that detail Newmarket’s illustrious past.

Newmarket’s Local History Society, which was formed in the mid 1980s, has over the decades, put together a huge collection of photographs, memorablilia and artefacts, most of which are currently being stored in members’ homes.

The society was allocated some storage in the newly refurbished Memorial Hall, but this only provides enough space for the society’s paper archive.

Society member Sandra Easom said it was important that somewhere be found to store the entire collection and make it accessible to residents and visitors to the town as well as people researching their ancestry and the town’s history.

It would also hope to house the Newmarket Journal archive, which dates back to 1872, when the paper was founded.

“Newmarket is one of the oldest inhabited sites in the country and it ought to be able to make more people aware of its history and heritage,” she said.

Mildenhall Museum is currently being redeveloped thanks to a grant of more than £700,000 from Forest Heath District Council and work is set to begin this year on a racing heritage centre at Palace House Stables, but the Newmarket historical collection still has no permanent home.

“We are delighted that these projects have received such significant financial backing,” said Mrs Easom, “but we need some help too.”

And she singled out the Forest Heath-owned Palace House coach house, which has been empty since the town council used it as temporary offices in 2011, as a potential home.

Newmarket councillor Warwick Hirst, who is portfolio holder for health, leisure and culture at Forest Heath District Council, said: “I will take this up with Forest Heath.”

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