Past Exhibitions

We have had several exhibitions in the last few years.  If you missed them, you can catch up with some of the details here.
Front cover of guidebook to exhibition

2023

Amelia Ray Guide to the exhibition

Amelia Ray ran a draper's shop in High Street Newtown in the 1870s. A chance discovery of receipts and papers tell an interesting story.

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Royal Welsh Warehouse football team with cup

2020

The Warehouse Eleven

Newtown was an early centre of Welsh football. This included teams from the Royal Welsh Warehouse.

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Jamaican sugar plantation with slaves in typical clothing

2021

Welsh Plains

Woollen cloth called 'Welsh Plains was produced in mid-Wales in the 1700s and sold to provide clothing for enslaved people in the Caribbean.

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