The Rutland County Museum

Abstract

Many students of Folk Life will already know of the collection of craft tools and implements made by the late Mr. E. G. Bolton while Headmaster of the Great Casterton Secondary School in Rutland. What they may not know is that this collection has now become the nucleus of the new Rutland County Museum.Mr. Bolton's collection began in a small way in 1939, when he began to illustrate lessons with objects from the past; his pupilsxya imaginations were fired, and over a period of some 24 years they helped him to amass a wealth of specimens; almost all from within the bounds of the County, many from families of long-standing local residence.