Seaton Museum

19/10/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who came to our Talking Histories coffee morning on Friday. What a fantastic community event! We hope you enjoyed seeing the Museum's collection of photos of Queen St and sharing your memories of all the businesses and people over the years.
Watch this space for the next session on 🤔

26/09/2026

Great morning at the Volunteers Fair in the Gateway Theatre today 😀

18/09/2026

We're having another Coffee Morning to talk about the history of Queen Street and Sidmouth Street. Bring along your photos and your memories.

12/09/2026

What a fantastic talk we had yesterday from Derek Gore on the Vikings in the South West!
We hope you enjoyed it.
Well done to all our amazing volunteers who give their time so generously to make these events such a success 🙌 And thank you to the staff at the Gateway Theatre for their excellent support - what a great venue!

11/09/2026

We're excited to announce that tickets for our next talk are now on sale. Don't delay, these are going to sell fast. Get your online tickets here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/8WN2N2TQZSMPW

21/08/2026

Seaton Museum has a website! Please take a look, the address is https://seatonmuseum.uk/

10/08/2026

Tickets are now on sale for our next fascinating talk, "Vikings in the West Country". Get your online tickets here https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/8WN2N2TQZSMPW

04/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our recent Coffee Morning.
We had a brilliant response and gathered loads of information about the history of Fore street.
Once we've catalogued all of the Fore Street information, our next project will be Queen Street and Sidmouth Street.
We'll have our next Coffee Morning in September, so get your photos of Queen Street and Sidmouth Street ready.

29/07/2026

Our friends from For the Love of a Railway in Axminster have shared this fantastic opportunity to get a rare close up look at the Cannington Viaduct.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122226538706055424&id=61551662745914&post_id=61551662745914_122226538706055424&sfnsn=scwspwa

Just three days to go!

From 9am this Saturday (1 August), free tickets will become available for Cannington Viaduct Revisited – a unique opportunity to step onto the magnificent Cannington Viaduct for the first time in more than 60 years.

This special heritage weekend on 19 & 20 September will include:

* Guided walks to the viaduct.
* A heritage experience at Uplyme Village Hall with displays, films, refreshments and more - ideal for those not able to do the walk
* The chance to discover the story of one of the most remarkable surviving landmarks of the Axminster to Lyme Regis Railway.

Tickets are free but numbers are strictly limited. The viaduct is in a remote rural location, and access can only be managed safely in small stewarded groups. Limiting numbers will help protect both visitors and the site while ensuring everyone enjoys the best possible experience.

We expect demand to be high, so if you’d like to join us, please book as soon as tickets go live.

Booking opens at 9am on Saturday 1 August.

Info and tickets: https://fortheloveofarailway.co.uk/viaduct

15/07/2026

Volunteers at the museum have already been gathering information and pictures of the shops in Seaton and how they have changed over the years.

The response to the Ferris family story on Facebook confirms there is a huge amount of precious local knowledge which we feel should be recorded.

So we are launching a new ‘Talking History’ project to help preserve all the rich stories about Seaton town centre.

We will be organizing a coffee morning (or two?) with an open invitation to anyone who would like to come and chat about their memories of the town’s shops, starting with Fore St.

The first is on Friday 31st July at the Gateway, 10.30-12.30am. We look forward to seeing lots of you there!