Page 57 - Hindsight Issue 26 April 2020
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A piano belonging to the well-known Daventry pianist and organist Reginald Foort was donated to the museum by his family and is now regularly played at exhibitions
We employed a firm of specialist removers to bring it to the museum and install it in Reception at the front of the building. It has since been moved into the main museum room to join the other exhibits.
We now have regular songs round the piano, usually associated with the theme of the exhibition we are doing at the time – recently wartime songs, with banjo and vocal accompaniment.
The Roman Mosaic Floor Fragment
the remains of a Roman building was discovered on Borough Hill, Daventry by archaeologist george Baker in 1823 but it was not fully excavated until 1852 by Beriah Botfield and his team who fully recorded the site. Whether it was a Roman villa or temple
Part of a mosaic Roman floor excavated in 1852 and kept in storage in the Moot Hall museum site for many years. Since July 2019 it has been on display in the New Street museum
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