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Description: | Domestic and local life including some maritime items, social life and pastimes, items connected to commemorative events (e.g. tail of the ox roasted in Market Square for the coronation of Edward VII), treen items such as knitting pin holders. There is a small collection of local ephemera including billheads and containers from local businesses; transport tickets; political elections, Borough records and minute books, apprentice rolls and property deeds and also 17th century property books. Early material includes a Tudor carved oak panel depicting Morris dancers and Elizabethan weights and measures. There are also objects related to social institutions, health, education, civic material, Lancaster and Morecambe Fire Brigades to 1974 and the Lancaster Police Force to 1947. | Subjects: | Social History | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Market Square
Lancaster,
LA1 1HT | FAX: | 01524 841 692 | Telephone: | 01524 64637 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1720 | Go to resource |
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