Pump House Museum

Visit some of the best London museums in the world that provides the learning with fun. This London museum houses a private collection of artifacts from the Thames foreshore in Rotherhithe.

The story of Rotherhithe is told through its unique collection, which ranges from dockers' tools, Elizabethan cannonballs, human skulls, jewellery, coins and clay pipes, to some Peek Freans memorabilia - including a 6' replica of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding cake. There is a full educational service for groups and schools, as well as local history walks, hands-on displays and a permanent exhibition - `Blitz...A Front Room' - in the large hall area. London Hop on Hop Off bus tours passes through most of the London museums and galleries and gives a chance to visit your favorite places at your leisure.

The Pumphouse Educational Museum incorporates The Rotherhithe Heritage Museum  and the Lavender Pond & Nature Park, and is a unique resource in the Surrey  Commercial Docks area of Rotherhithe. The Pumphouse was built in 1929 to regulate t he water level in the Dock System. When the Surrey Docks closed in 1970, 350 acres  became derelict and 270 years of tradition came to an end. The building was refurbished  in 1989 and the Heritage Museum opened in 1991. While moving around the London with guided London walking tour is another best way to see and visit London attractions.

As a charity, overseen by a board of Trustees, the Head of Centre in the last eight years  has ensured the success of the project by expanding the education for schools  programme, raising the profile and managing the progress of the Centre, gaining  support of grant funding organisations and in doing so, broadening and developing its  potential.

In expanding the education service to include those children with special needs,  providing education in ecology and conservation for and setting up a reminiscence and  communication service for older people in residential homes, the Pumphouse has  achieved its original aims.
 
Rotherhithe Heritage Museum:

Housed on the ground floor, is the Rotherhithe Heritage Museum,

This London Museum has a collection of artifacts dated from Roman times to the present day.

The story of Rotherhithe and its people as told by a unique collection of objects found on the  Thames foreshore.  A fascinating glimpse in to the ordinary daily life of one of the oldest villages in London. The collection is the result of over 14 years mudlarking on the river shore by a local man, Mr Ron Goode. The museum is in the Lavender Pond Pumphouse which originally housed dock machinery and is surrounded by a tranquil Nature Park and pond.
     
Exhibitions:
     
The first floor has a permanent hands-on exhibition of everyday artifacts from twentieth century homes and the Victorian era through to present day. Used by children to understand the past and by visitors simply to recall those childhood memories the exhibition allows different generations to recall and compare everyday objects.
     
A Blitz Room is another permanent display to show home life during the war years.
     
The 1950's display has a working jukebox with authentic records from that era,  household objects and kitchenalia, documents and ephemera.

The second floor houses the six foot replica of Queen Elizabeth's wedding cake,  designed and iced at Peek Freans, Bermondsey, once the employer of many Rotherhithe residents. It is hoped to obtain a grant to display other items from this lost industry of Southwark.
 
Frequently oversubscribed by schools, visitors both local and global, it provides an insight into the past, exhibits intriguing displays of everyday artefacts from homes of the twentieth century and houses the Rotherhithe Heritage Museum, artefacts from the foreshore of the River Thames dating from Roman times to the present day. A distinctive venue housed in the pumping station of the Surrey Commercial Docks and adjacent to the riverside, the museum encourages older visitors to reminisce and share memories of a bygone age. It fosters enthusiasm in children to learn through exploration and allows casual visitors to recall features and memories of their childhood homes. An authentic jukebox plays a taste of the wide variety of musical records from the 1950's whilst the 6' replica of Queen Elizabeth II wedding cake is truly awesome. Local older people remember Peek Freans, the company that made the cake, and delicious biscuits, now a lost industry of Bermondsey.  
 
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