MAELDUNE Heritage Centre has expanded its educationional resources thanks to funding, which provided a touch tablet and a listening station.   

Maldon Town Council and heritage centre trustees combined funding to provide an area within the centre to help visitors learn through images and sounds.

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Archive equipment includes both an oral history listening station and a touch screen for the centre's pictorial collection.

To celebrate the newly funded equipment, pictorial history archives manager Peter Holmes led a history of the society’s archives display from the two laptops which were then replaced by a media screen.

A Maldon Society spokesman said: "Managing archives through laptops worked well for ten years although it gave limited access to members of the public wishing to view a variety of collections as this required the centre’s volunteers’ assistance.

"By raising sufficient funds and a lot of background work being carried out over several months by Mr Holmes, a bespoke system which includes videos, slide show function and on-site commissioning has now been installed in the heritage centre.

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"Several residents have now visited, and enjoyed the ease with which they can move from one collection to another by the touch on the screen."

Maeldune Heritage Centre, at the top of Market Hill, is open from Tuesdays until Saturdays between 11am and 4pm.