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Description: | The collection of knitting sheaths comprise the Museum's predominant research collection.including knitting belts, broaches and knitting sheaths used by men and children, and photographic evidence.
The present collection relates in the main to villages in Wensleydale and Swaledale. The Museum actively seeks to improve its collections relating to other areas within the Pennine Dales, particularly artefacts relating to communities in the southern and western part of the Dales. Areas of particular importance are: Local Government, commemorative, and National Government material with local provenance, such as ephemera relating to the war time and to local agricultural developments.
Domestic Life is well represented in the Museum's collections. Specific items required will be identified and listed seperately. All collecting in this area is therefore restricted to items which fill a specific gap. A list of items required will be drawn up and maintained separately. Items which duplicate may be retained, with the permission of the donor, for use within the education centre.
Retailing material has well founded local provenance in the present collection.
The Museum has a substantial collection of artefacts relating to laundry and a small collection of cradles, children's costume and toys. Working Life is the largest single area within the Museum's collection. Active collecting concentrates on photopraphic and oral history records to support.
The collection of knitting sheaths comprise the Museum's predominant research collection.including knitting belts, broaches and knitting sheaths used by men and children, and photographic evidence. | Subjects: | Social History | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Station Yard
Hawes
North Yorkshire,
DL8 3NT | FAX: | 01969 667 165 | Telephone: | 01969 667 494/450 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:972 | Go to resource |
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