Wandle Valley Festival, 12th June 2005

Author: Dave Saxby

Site supervisor: Dave Saxby

As part of the annual Wandle Valley Festival in Merton, held on Sunday 12th June 2005, four staff from MoLAS were involved in running an archaeological exhibition and events in the Chapter House at Merton Abbey Mills. Displays and artefacts from the earlier and recent excavations at Merton Priory were shown, along with children’s archaeological activities for ‘Discovering Archaeology’. Hand block-printing was demonstrated by Mary Hart from the Wandle Industrial Museum and the Bond Primary School in Mitcham put on a display about a local project for breeding trout in the classroom and releasing them into the River Wandle.

The events held in the Chapter House were so successful that the building was also opened on the following Monday. In the morning there were archaeological activities for children with special needs from a local school, and in the afternoon the Chapter House was visited by fifty-five primary school children from the Bond Primary School.

This site report is extracted from MoLAS 2005: annual review