Redbourn Village Museum

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Local History of Redbourn Village

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The Redbourn Experience explains the history of a Hertfordshire Village through the centuries through local finds and in pictures, maps and objects. The exhibitions are housed in a small house which was the home of the manager of a former Silk Mill, later becoming one of the largest tea and coffee packing factories in the country. Medieval stones from Redbourn Priory and items from the Stone Age to the 19th Century can be seen in the Priory Room whilst in the Occupations Room, the visitor is able to see the amazing wealth of employment that this small village has been able to provide throughout its history. Many people of Redbourn were straw plaiters and found work in the hat factory, silk mill, jam factory and subsequently the Brooke Bond tea-packing plant. There is a display about Dr. Henry Stephens, inventor of the first free flowing ink.