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Cater Museum
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The Cater Museum in Billericay High Street
Cater Museum
Established7 May 1960 (1960-05-07)
Location74 High Street, Billericay, England
Coordinates 51°37′31″N0°25′03″E / 51.625231°N 0.417476°E / 51.625231; 0.417476
Type Local museum
Website catermuseum.co.uk

The Cater Museum is a small local museum in Billericay, Essex county, England. The museum was established by Alice May Cater, in honour of her late husband William Alexander Cater, a local antiquarian. It was opened to the public on 7 May 1960. [1] The museum is a registered charity and is located at 74 High Street, Billericay. [2] It lies within a Grade II listed, 18th-century, red-brick-fronted building. [3]

The museum stores numerous local artefacts over three floors, including information on local families and buildings. [4] Amongst the artefacts are: reports of the Zeppelin that was downed in the area during World War I; the remains of a two-headed lamb born in the area; [5] and the door of the house once owned by Christopher Martin, who was a passenger aboard the Mayflower . [6]

In 2002, a Victorian kitchen garden was opened at the rear of the museum [7] where a number of Elizabethan herbs were planted. [8] In 2008, the museum received £41,000 of National Lottery funding [9] to carry out renovation of the rear of the building to restore it to its original 18th-century character. While this renovation was being carried out, a number of artefacts were discovered in the garden, some dating from around the 1860s. Items included Victorian pipes, ginger beer jars and medicine bottles; many of these were added to the museum's collection. [10]

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