What’s On

Our talks cover a range of historical subjects, from guided walks looking at the history of areas of London, to speakers talking about famous people with Brentwood connections. Full details are below.

Full location details:  Gwendoline Lewis Room, Shenfield Parish Hall, Hutton Road, Shenfield, CM15 8LB.

Time and date: 7.45pm on the 3rd Thursday every month.

Free for members of the museum society, small fee for visitors.

Our exhibition “Food glorious food” opened in April 2025 and will return in 2026. It showcases a range of intereting items and artefacts relating to food and how we used to eat.

We have ration books, old recipes, kitchen appliances and tea sets.

Permanent Exhibitions

We also have permanent exhibits to explore at the Brentwood Museum.

We have a cabinet of curiosities, a collection of photos of Brentwood though the decades, artifacts from WWII and much, much more.

Photo collection

We also have a collection of photos showing Brentwood in the 1950s.

These were taken by Sybil Sears and gifted to the museum.  Here is a small selection showing Brentwood High Street, the train station and the fire station.

Garden and Cemetery

No longer used for new burials, the cemetery is now managed as a nature reserve and has a beauty and tranquility all of its own.

In a wooded glade a soldier who won the Victoria Cross in the Crimea lies at rest.

There is a War Cross and Commonwealth War Graves of the Great War.

A striking white marble memorial stands proudly above the grave of the Essex police hero PC. George Gutteridge.