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Description: | -Collections of agricultural, craft, and trade items reflecting life in a busy market town. Items connected with education, childhood, domestic and social life in the town.;Small collection of Victorian costume, mainly women's and children's. Some occupational costume.;Photographs of people, places, social life such as sports and leisure, and occupations in Beccles and the surrounding villages;Very small collection of local geology;Very small collection of local arcahaeological finds.;Small collection of biological specimens are displayed to provide the environmental context for the development of the town and nearby villages.;Collections relating to the important Beccles industries of printing, flour milling and malting.;Collection of Beccles farthings, minted by the corporation in the 17th century to provide small denomination coinsfor the poor."
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Leman House
Ballygate
Beccles Suffolk,
NR34 9ND | Telephone: | 01502 715722 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6208 | Go to resource |
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