This month, our ‘Into the Archives’ feature focuses on an advert from the Malmesbury Chronicle of March 1907. The advert is for John Jefferies & Son, Seed Merchants and specifically for their giant sweet peas. Their “Corinium Mixture” promised “a very wide range of colours and flowers of immense sizes.” The firm were also nurserymen and florists. They were founded… Read more

This month’s ‘Into the Archives’ document is a poster advertising an art exhibition held at the Corinium Museum. Titled “Images of Cirencester: Paintings, Prints, Photographs, Drawings of Cirencester As It Was”, the exhibition opened on 3rd November 1984 and ran until 17th February 1985, forty years ago this month. It is reflective of several of the annual exhibitions that were… Read more