We have a new acquisition for the Museum in Thorney. This mess tin, a two part aluminium food container, was bought at auction, labelled...

The Thorney Museum has recently gained access to a copy of a manuscript from over 180 years ago. As Curator, I have transcribed this to...

Reginald Pecock had been Bishop of Chichester, but was found guilty of heresy, going against the teachings of the Catholic Church. He...

Last week, Thorney Museum was represented at the book launch for The Honourable Doctor, a novel based on the true story of an early...

Thorney Museum is one part of the Tankyard - but not everyone knows why it is called the Tankyard. The reason is that the water tank for...

It is clear to everyone that the cost of energy is a challenge for those running many buildings. This includes the Thorney Society and...

A member of the Parish Council mentioned this book to me a couple of months ago. As the medieval history of Thorney is quite difficult...

After more than two years of closure due to building works and the Pandemic, the Thorney Society is delighted to announce that the...

Thorney Museum is being helped by volunteers (Maggie Primavesi and Katie Purkiss) as we work through the things which need to be...

This month the Committee of the Thorney Society were delighted to offer Margaret Fletcher the role of Honorary President. Margaret has...

Thanks to a local resident down Willow Hall Lane, this post which used to stand on the western edge of the parish of Thorney was donated...

It was last week that Thorney Abbey was able to open for private prayer again. The Coronavirus lockdown period was the third time when...

Last weekend there were to have been many events celebrating the unique environment and history of the Fens. The situation with the...

Thank you to Jeremy Culpin and to Robert Bell at the Wisbech and Fenland Museum for finding out about this topic. In the Lincolnshire...

If you are interested in the village and in our local heritage, the Thorney Society would be interested to hear from you. At the moment...

In the seventeenth century, under Cromwell, Scottish prisoners of war were marched to the Fens and made to work on the increased drainage...

This is one of the smaller things we have in the Museum. It is a ticket for a dog, in 1957, which was travelling from Thorney to Wryde...

The medieval abbey of Thorney was a centre of scholarship, but also a wealthy administrative centre for the lands it held over a wide...

The Thorney Annals 963-1412 AD were edited, translated and published by Dr Cyril Hart in 1997. It is one of the sources used to look at...

From the 1840s to the 1860s, around 80% of the cottages in Thorney village (a little later in many of the farms on the Fen) were rebuilt...