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The Chelmsford Museum is a local history and industrial heritage museum. A major £5 million extension and redevelopment scheme opened in January 2010 and the museum now includes exhibits and interactive displays focusing on the engineering pioneers
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The house was designed by Charles Pertwee for Frederick Wells, a director of the Chelmsford Brewery, and completed by 1865. It was constructed with an elaborate
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is based in Oaklands House, an historic property off Moulsham Street in
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from the French 62nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne at the
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Chelmsford Museum is located in Essex
Chelmsford
Coordinates
51°43′21″N 0°27′50″E / 51.72262°N 0.46388°E / 51.72262; 0.46388
www.chelmsford.gov.uk/museums
Chelmsford
Essex
Listed building

Gundamuck
William Barnes Wollen
campanile
First World War
R.E.B. Crompton
Guglielmo Marconi
Alfred Bennett Bamford
Doris Boulton-Maude
Richard Spare
Castle Hedingham ware
Turner Prize
Grayson Perry
Essex Regiment
Essex Yeomanry
French Imperial Eagle
44th Regiment of Foot
Battle of Salamanca
William Barnes Wollen
1842 retreat from Kabul
Afghanistan

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