History: Panel depicting the 20th Century
The Millennium Embroideries were begun in 1998 at the former Borough Museum by the Curator, Beverley Burford.
About the Millennium Embroideries
The project was to produce a series of embroidered panels to depict the history of the borough from the beginning of the millennium to the year 2000.
Many local women volunteered to spend many hours over a number of years to produce eight panels representing the following periods of our history:
- Celts and Romans
- Anglo Saxons and Vikings
- Medieval
- Tudor
- Stuart
- Georgian
- Victorian
- 20th Century
The embroideries are part of the Heritage Centre's collection and, from time to time, a panel will be on display to the public, depending on the exhibition programme
The embroideries cannot be displayed for too long as they need to be in a proper conservation display case to ensure their protection and preservation.
In 2007 the Friends of Greenwich Millennium Embroideries (FoGME) was set up by the embroiderers to raise money to purchase display cases for the panels.