THIS IS A PAST EVENTThe Dolls..
This colourful art-gallery in cloth features The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Audrey Hepburn, Dr. Zhivago, the Tudor and Stuart Kings & Queens, characters from Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz, and local heroes Torvill & Dean in their famous Bolero costumes, and many more... Vina’s own work is the nucleus of one of the largest viewable collections of childhood memorabilia in the UK, sensitively arranged through several rooms.
The House..
The museum is situated next to the medieval church in the tiny village of Cromwell just off the A1, five miles North of Newark. There has been a house on the site for many hundreds of years, originally the manor house of the Lords of Cromwell, ancestors of the famous Cromwells of history.
During the 1680s the present house was built on the site of the former, as a Dower house for the widow of the Earl of Clare. Many Tudor bricks were reused in the house, which was given to the church as the Rectory about 1710, and became “The Old Rectory” in 1921. Vina and husband Charles moved into the house in 1984, when it was in need of some loving care, opening it to the public at Easter of that year. Continual maintenance, and thousands of visitors have brought the house back to life.
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