Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum

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The Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum is a rugby football museum in the town centre of Rugby in Warwickshire, near Rugby School. It takes its name from William Webb Ellis who is credited with inventing the game of Rugby football.

The museum is housed in the building where the shoe and boot maker James Gilbert, nephew of William Gilbert, made the first rugby ball in 1842, and was previously known as the James Gilbert Rugby Football Museum. On its premises (see image) it is identified as The Rugby Museum.

The museum is packed with much rugby memorabilia, including the original Richard Lindon (inventor of the "oval" rugby ball, rubber bladder and brass hand pump) Brass Hand pump and is popular with rugby fans. Traditional handmade rugby balls are still made at the museum.

[edit] See also

Museum of Rugby - at Twickenham Stadium in London.

[edit] External links

• BBC article about the museum
• Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum on Rugby Borough Council site