Description: | The local/social history material relates to North East Lancashire and includes community life themes such as cultural traditions, organisations, regulations, welfare, education, housing structures. Domestic life is represented by items relating to pastimes, heating, lighting and sanitation, furniture and furnishings, cleaning and maintenance, food, drink and tobacco, sport & entertainment, relics/mementoes, timekeeping and personal grooming. Architectural features include fragments of medieval buildings, 17th, 18th and 19th century doors, windows, plasterwork, decorative ironwork and door furniture and also 19th & 20th century fireplaces and hob grates. The association with Witchcraft at Pendle and the Lancashire Witches is also reflected in collections relating to local folklore and personalities of the area. |