Coffee Houses will be on the Minster Green and in the Bradshaw Room Serving teas, coffees, savouries and home made cakes. There will also be a raffle and Free entry to the museum for the day.

POETRY READINGS :
In the Courtyard Garden  at 11.30am  and 2.30pm
 
CRAFT DEMONSTRATIONS :
In the Bradshaw Room and in the museum:
Lace making, knitting, weaving and spinning (Possibly paper cutting and woodcrafts)
 

Come and visit actors playing roles such as Mr Gundry suitably attired in his top hat and finery he will be running the Axminster branch of the bank ‘Gundry and son of Bridport’. Experience a day of Georgian activities and see volunteers and some Axminster Businesses dressed in costume wandering around the town. Come and meet people dressed as Lord Byron, Jane and Cassandra Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and people dressed as wool merchants, farmers, seamstresses, lawyers and apothecaries etc in the town.

There will also be  an

Evening talk by David Knapman on
Georgian Axminster in The Bradshaw Meeting Room
7:00pm Tickets £3.50 available from the Axminster Heritage Centre
 

Any Volunteer help would be appreciated  If you would like to help or volunteer for the day