📷 EX181 and Stirling Moss at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1957.
Numerous speed record attempts have been made at the Bonneville Salt Flats and here is where the MG record breaking team took their subsequent record breakers.
#MG 100 #MG cars #MG #Abingdon #Oxfordshire

Local historian and museum volunteer Bob Frampton will be giving a talk introducing MG just before the war and then discuss what happened in the war and how they turned to war production.
This is a free event in conjuction with our exhibition MG 100 - Evolution of an icon.

The Marque of Icons.

A cult modern classic. MG continues to
turn heads, 100 years and counting.

#MG100 #MagicofMG

One of our youngest visitors today had such a good time exploring all the #MG model cars displayed as part of the #MG 100 exhibition.
Abingdon County Hall Museum is open today and tomorrow, #bankholidaymonday , from 10am to 4pm.
FREE Admission.
#Abingdon #kidsinmuseums #bankholidayweekend

Concrete track recovered from MG #Abingdon Factory shortly before demolition in 1981.
The MG car club acquired it by donation from a committed MG enthusiast who saved it by taking it home with him, all the way to the Netherlands!
Object on loan from MG Car Club.
#MG100 #MGcars

Roman Flagon found in the Vineyard, Abingdon.
This iron free-clay from Shotover Hill, produced pale pottery known as parchment ware.

#abingdon #roman #archaeology #pottery #FridayFinds

Check out the latest Ben G Thomas BoneHeads' video on 'The Marine Monsters of England's Jurassic Seas' recorded at Abingdon Museum during the ATOM Festival 2024.
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#Abingdon #Jurassic #MarineReptiles

This lamp was made in 1975 for MG's Golden Anniversary, 50 years since the 'Old No1' in 1925.

#MG 100 #MG Cars #MG #Abingdon #Oxfordshire

📷Photograph featuring the EX120 with George Eyston as driver.
A secret workshop was established at #Abingdon to produce the EX 120. In February 1931, the EX 120 reached a speed of 100 mph, the first 750cc car in the world to do so.
Our #MG100 exhibition is on until 30th June.

📷 The Abingdon Factory around 1930.
Come to see the new exhibition 'MG 100 - Evolution of an icon' at Abingdon Museum on view until 30th June 2024.
#MG 100 #MG Cars #MG #Abingdon #Oxfordshire

Happy St George's Day!
Today St George's flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is flying from a pole in the Market Place.
The flag pole on the roof of the Museum has been recently damaged so no flags can be flown for the time being. Please check the Town Council's website for more info abingdon.gov.uk/news/county-ha…

An ancient marine reptile found in the UK may be the largest ever discovered! 😮

The 202 million-year-old remains are believed to be from a species of ichthyosaur that was as long as a blue whale. 🐋

Find out more about this remarkable discovery 👇
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#ArchiveTravel of #archive30 Mary Morland writes to William Buckland while he was on a Scottish excursion, 'I anticipate your doing great things there while you are traversing the Sea and the Land and contemplating Nature in her wildest and most imposing attire.'

What's the earliest evidence of a tournament taking place in England?

Rory MacLellan explores in our new blogpost

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Please nominate One Planet Abingdon movementforgood.com/index.php?cnam… Planet Abingdon Climate Emergency Centre&ct=environment_and_climate&ogi=red&utm_source=thankyoumodal_red&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=M4G2024thankyoumodal&utm_id=M4G2024thankyoumodal#nominateACharity

Want to see what goes on behind the scenes here? 👀

Book a spot on this weekend's archive tour and see some of the thousands of objects we hold, like these engraved brass shell casings, made by Italian POWs in Oxfordshire during WW2

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In the Bronze Age there's a period were suddenly lots of metal ornaments, like this gold bead, are found in the ground called the Ornament Horizon. It's an odd phenomenon well worth reading about! #FindsFriday

A throwback photograph to 1932 MG C Type Midgets being prepared in Abingdon factory for a ‘Double Twelve Race’ at Brooklands.

The exhibition 'MG 100 - Evolution of an icon' is on view until 30th June 2024.
#MG 100 #MG Cars #MG #Abingdon #Oxfordshire

We acquired George D. Leslie’s painting ‘A Thameside Conversation’ through Acceptance in Lieu scheme run by Arts Council England. It's now proudly on display in our museum & we've produced a podcast on it - listen to it standing in front of painting! #WorldArtDay qrcc.me/r2q47dLf

We are very happy to show the 'Gardens of South Abingdon' at the front entrance of Abingdon Museum.
This exhibit celebrates work created during an Intergenerational Arts Studio Pop up in Caldecott.
#abingdon #creative #art #art ist #oxfordshire