A BLOXHAM museum has got some new faces thanks to a cash boost.

The village museum was given almost £1,000 by the Museum Development Service for Berks, Oxfordshire and Bucks, to replace its decades-old second-hand mannequins.

Now the seven new mannequins have taken pride of place at the museum, in Church Street.

Museum spokesman Peter Barwell said: “The museum has had to put up with broken damaged mannequins from shops when it started nearly 30 years ago.

“Our new mannequins are put to good use in two displays, one of the local doctor who used to hold his surgery in the pub — there is a long queue of patients with even a child in a pram outside the door.

“The doctor is based on a doctor years ago who had his surgery in the Hawk and Partridge pub, and allegedly he gave everyone the same medicine from his jug — regardless of their illness.

“The other display is at the Forge in Bloxham where a family has come to get something mended.

“Mother and child are standing well back from the fire — there were no health and safety rules in those days.”

The mannequins form part of a new exhibition called an A-Z of Bloxham.