Our Collections
Surrey Heath Museum is a local museum telling the stories of the area’s past. Our collection includes material from the Stone Age, Roman period, Medieval and Tudor/Stuart times through to the industrial revolution of the late 1700s, Victorian, Edwardian and Twentieth Century. The Museum opened in the 1930s with the original collection donated by the first curator, George Poulter. The Museum holds local history, art and archive collections including;
Percy Harland Fisher, artist (1865-1944) - click to follow link
George Kenner, artist (1888-1971) - click to follow link
George Edward Lodge, artist and naturalist (1860-1954) - click to follow link
Robert Tucker Pain, photographer (1835-1885)
Ron Francis, photographer (1922 to 2010) - click to follow link
Edward Mendell, photographer (1920 to 2007) - click to follow link
Briant and Harold Poulter, architectural drawings (c.1870 to c.1974) - click to follow link
West End History Society, archive
Alf Tarry, historian and archive
Camberley Natural History Society, objects and archive
The museum has over 100,000 objects - large and small covering over 20 centuries of Surrey Heath's history. Links to our collections online can be accessed via our page on the Surrey Heath Borough Council website page - www.surreyheath.gov.uk/visitors/surrey-heath-museum - click to follow link.
Image - Farm Scene in West End, early 1900s