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Archaeology Collection

The collection includes the excavated finds from Totnes Castle discovered in 1954.

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Archaeology

Numismatics Collection

The museum has some Saxon coins minted in Totnes within the numismatic collection.

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Numismatics

Biology Collection

There is a walled herb garden in addition to the small collection of artefacts.

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Biology

Personalia Collection

There are artefacts and archives relating to Charles Babbage, the computer pioneer; and W J Wills, the Australian explorer.

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Personalia

Transport Collection

There is a variety of items from the South Devon Railway, including lamps, badges, ceremonial shovels and railway documents.

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Transport

Science and Industry Collection

The collection includes artefacts from local trades and industries including 18th century clock making

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Science and Industry

Social History Collection

Artefacts of local trades are complemented by domestic artefacts, mostly of the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a variety of artefacts from the Park Pharmacy Trust, Plymouth, c.1900.

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Social History

Decorative and Applied Art Collection

Furniture of the Jacobean period is well represented in the collection with both cased and turned furniture. There is a local oak tester bed, c.1637; two local oak carved arm chairs, c.1600; an oak table, c.1700; a walnut table, c.1800; a mahogany wash stand, c.1900; and a carved press, c.1700.

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Decorative and Applied Arts

Archives Collection

The study centre within the museum houses an extensive archive relating to the museum’s collections, the history of Totnes, its people and the locality. It is also a service point of the Devon Record Office. It holds bound works from St Mary’s Parvis, the Rutter library and the Mechanics Institute Library and holds a full collection of Totnes Times from 1860 to the latest bound volumes, in both original copy and microfilm up to 1939. The centre holds on microfilm tithe maps and apportionments, OS reference plans. local parish registers and the International Genealogical Index for Devon 1984. There are indexes of Census returns for 1841, 1851, 1861 on computer and from 1871 and 1881 in hard copy. There are Election returns, local apprenticeship records, rentals and reports on the town’s built heritage. The work of the Totnes Community Archive 1981-1985 constitutes a resource in pictorial, text and oral history form.

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Archives

Other

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Medicine; Music; Oral History; Agriculture; Arms and Armour; Costume and Textile; Ethnography; Fine Art; Geology; Maritime; Medals

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Date: Not known, but before 2015

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The Arts & Heritage Collections are organised within three main areas: Museum, Art Gallery and Local Studies and Archives. Although the Art Gallery and Museum did not open until 1903, Rochdale Corporation had been receiving gifts and donations as early as 1874. Some of the first gifts to the museum were local flints and fossils, rocks and minerals. Many local collections were donated, bequeathed or purchased, including a collection of flint implements received from Dr.H.C.March. This collection dates from the Neolithic period and can be largely attributed to the Rochdale area. Later donations included objects of curiosity along with collections of Natural History, Ethnology and local history.

The museum was to later benefit from another local benefactor, Charles Heape, whose family also gave very generously to the Art Gallery Collections. Charles Heape donated his collection of Egyptian artefacts, collected during his travels in the late 1890s. His brother, Richard Heape gave to the public library a series of photographs taken as a record of these travels. These incredible images now form part of the Local Studies Collection.

An important development in the history of the museum was the establishment of the John Bright Memorial Room in 1925, made possible by the generosity of the Bright family. The most striking object in the room was the large oak bookcase, the gift of John Bright’s daughter. This bookcase and the 1,200 volumes contained in it were a national gift to John Bright in 1853 in acknowledgement of his work on behalf of the Anti-Corn Law League.

The museum collections grew over the years, as did all local authority museum collections, with donations of curiosities, local and natural history.

The first artwork was donated to the town in 1898 and displayed in the public library, prior to the foundation of the current art gallery.

The majority of the art gallery collection was donated by local people, especially wealthy industrialists in the early years of the 20th century, or purchased from funds bequeathed to the gallery. This includes:

• Thomas Kay Bequest of Northern and Italian Renaissance paintings and late Victorian works on paper to the former Borough of Heywood in 1912.
• Robert Taylor Heape donations of Victorian paintings between 1901 and 1913.
• Richard Heape donation of 19th century watercolours in 1917.
• Royds Bequest of 19th century pen and ink illustrations in 1916.

During the war years both the museum and the art gallery collections were put into storage while the building was taken over by The Ministry of Food. Following the end of the war the art collections were reinstated, while the museum maintained a presence in the John Bright Room. The majority of collections continued to be held in storage.

In the late 1960s the decision was made to seek an alternative home for the museum, and the former vicarage of the Parish Church of St. Chad was thought to be a suitable venue. Following extensive renovations to this handsome 18th century building, Rochdale Museum opened there in 1975. Displays included local social history, agricultural implements and costume. A later development included a live collection of old and rare breeds of domestic animals in the museum grounds. Period room settings and changing exhibitions were regular features of the museum. The Museum remained open in St. Chad’s Vicarage for almost 15 years.

In 2000 Heritage Lottery Funding was granted as part of a £2.25 million scheme to redevelop the building where the museum and art gallery were originally housed. On 1 July 2002, the building reopened with Art Gallery spaces, Heritage Gallery, Education Studio, Cafe and Tourist Information.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2022

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The Museum Collection

The collections fall into the following areas; Archaeology, Egyptology, Natural Sciences, Egyptology, Social History, Decorative Arts, Costume and Textiles. The figures below are based on early inventories which do not take into account group accessioning lots. It is estimated that there may be at least 100,000 objects in total within the collection.

Archaeology

This comprises of locally found flints and tools, donated from 1896 onwards which formed the nucleus of the original museum. There have been a few additional donations over the years. Archaeology is not actively collected, however, we will take in local archaeological material which is fully provenanced. Estimated 1500 items.

Egyptology

The Egyptology collection is of national if not international importance and dates from pre-dynastic times to the Christian era. Much of the collection was excavated by Sir William Flinders Petrie, and relates to collections in other museums. There have also been significant gifts by the Heape family. Estimated 2000 items.

Natural History

The natural science collections consist of shells, a herbarium, an egg collection and a small number of mounted specimens (birds and mammals). Estimated 2500 items.

Geology

The Geology collection is one of the earliest collections of the Museum Service and comprises specimens of local, national and international provenance. There is also a large collection of fossils, including local coal measure fossils. Estimated 5000 items.

Local/Social History

These are, numerically, the largest Museum collections and relate to all aspects of local people’s life and work. Most of the items date from the 19th and 20th centuries and include furniture, locally made clocks and ceramics dating from the 18th century to the present day. There is also a small collection of medals, coins and tokens, an early donation, which has never been actively collected. The collection also includes items relating to local trade and industry e.g. clogging, coopering, carpentry, tinsmiths, wool, cotton, and silk trades. Estimated 35000 items.

Local Personalities

There is a comprehensive collection relating to Gracie Fields (1898 – 1979) the Rochdale born star of stage, screen and radio. Estimated 4200 items.

Costume & Textiles

The costume/textile collection consists of mainly nineteenth and twentieth century material and includes costume accessories. Many of the items have been locally donated or purchased. There is also a small collection of textiles from the states of Sind & Gujarat in Western India and Pakistan. Estimated 2500 items.

Decorative Arts

There is a small collection of ceramics, which includes Meissen and Staffordshire figures, tea services and presentation pieces from such potteries as Wedgwood and Copeland. There is also a small collection of wine and beer glasses, decanters and bowls. Estimated 800 items.

Education Collection

A collection of items, mainly related to Social History curriculum themes has and is being collected specifically for Education or hands on use. Estimated 3200 items.

The Art Gallery Collection

The collection continues to grow today partly through the support of charities such as the Contemporary Art Society. The most significant bequests and donations have been:

• The Handley Bequest exists for the conservation of existing and acquisition of new artworks for the collection.
• A significant number of 20th and 21st century works have been presented by the Contemporary Art Society.
• Recent support from the Art Fund (New Collecting Award – 2017-2019) towards the purchase of work to build our collection art by women artists. The art gallery collections comprise around 1600 works, primarily paintings, prints and drawings, prints. There are smaller holdings of photographs, sculpture and contemporary craft. Artists represented in the collection are of local, national and international standing.

Collection outline

• A small number of northern European 17th century portraits and landscapes
• A substantial collection of British Victorian genre, narrative and landscape painting
• Early British modernist art • 20th century British figurative work
• Late 19th/early 20th century British Impressionism
• Topographical and landscape painting by local artists from the late 19th century to the present day
• Contemporary art from 1970s to present
• A small, mixed disciplinary collection of contemporary craft from 1970s to present
• Key work by important women artists from the Victorian period to the present day.

There are significant holdings of the nationally known, locally born artists Edward Stott, FW Jackson, John Collier (Tim Bobbin) and Bob Crossley. Other major artists represented include J Waterhouse, Walter Sickert, CRW Nevinson, Mark Gertler, Matthew Smith, Ivon Hitchens, Laura Knight, LS Lowry, Stanley Spencer, John Bratby, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres and Cornelia Parker.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2022

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The museum has two permanent exhibits; The Story of Derry which presents the history of Derry from its prehistoric origins to the present, and An Armada Shipwreck – La Trinidad Valencera which details the local shipwreck from the Spanish Armada. Tower Museum is the home of the Mabel Colhoun collection.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article “Tower Museum”, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Source: Wikipedia

Date: 2025

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Fine Art Collection

There is a collection of 328 oil paintings, which is strongest in its holdings of 19th century British artists including Sir Edwin Landseer, John William Waterhouse, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. There are 49 works dating before 1900 by continental artists and these can be seen in the National Inventory of Continental European Paintings launched through Visual Arts Data Service. The most important of these is ‘Charles Towneley and friends in the Park St Gallery, Westminster’ by John Zoffany. The collection also includes over 330 watercolours, mostly British artists work from late 18th to c.1900, around 500 book illustrations from the period 1880-1920 (the James Hardcastle collection purchased in 1927) and over 330 prints. Sculpture comprises a small collection of 59 works, mainly 19th century. The present collection policy is to purchase works of local artists, local landscapes of historic interest and works related to the Towneley family. The collection of 314 oil paintings is strongest in its holdings of 19th century British artists including Sir Edwin Landseer, John William Waterhouse, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. Works of particular note include the oil painting ‘Charles Towneley and friends in the Park St Gallery, Westminster’ by John Zoffany.

The gallery at Towneley once contained an unbroken series of over 150 family portraits from 1600 to the end of the 19th century but the collection was dispersed when the family left in 1902. Subsequently 11 oil paintings, 1 pastel, 6 silhouettes and 7 marble portrait busts have returned into the museum’s collection. The museum also has records of the inventories of the portraits catalogued in 1844 and 1861 and auction catalogues relevant to the subsequent sales of the many of the portraits.

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Illustration; Portrait painting; Sculpture; Paintings; Fine Art

Decorative and applied Art Collection

Decorative arts includes the Henry Holroyd Collection of English Drinking glasses bequeathed in 1935 and various ceramics including Pilkington’s Royal Lancastrian pottery (1897-1950), Chinese ceramics, commemorative pottery, Goss, Cliviger pottery and Contemporary studio pottery. Furniture includes items of backstairs furniture left in the Hall in 1903, 17th century oak purchased mainly in the 1930s and both Regency and Gothic pieces (e.g. the ‘Towneley Alterpiece’ – 15th century). There is also a collection of carved ivories from Europe, India, Asia, Africa and North America bequeathed in 1906 by George Eastwood and some additional pieces of ivory and hardwood turning by Lady Gertrude Eleanor Crawford. There is also some metalware comprising silver, trophies, cutlery, souvenir spoons, pewter and snuffboxes.

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Decorative and Applied Arts

Personalia Collection

Items associated with the Towneley family from the 16th-20th centuries and the Hall include paintings, prints, busts, archives, books and photographs.

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Personalia

Numismatics Collection

British and world coins, tokens and bank notes.

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Numismatics

Costume and Textile Collection

Costume includes flags, rugs, household textiles, Military uniforms, Victorian dresses and accessories, working clothes and Kashmiri embroideries and other textiles.

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Costume and Textile

Ethnography Collection

Mostly from Africa, India, North and South America and acquired in the early 20th century through a large donation by W T Taylor.

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Ethnography

Medals Collection

Medals (civil and military) and medallions connected with the East Lancashire Regiment and people of Burnley and also W.W.I plaques.

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Medals

Social History Collection

The local history collection is large and wide-ranging, reflecting Burnley’s social and industrial development during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Social History

Arms and Armour Collection

The museum houses part of the collection related to the East Lancashire Regiment including guns and edged weapons and material associated with General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, a local hero of the Crimean War.

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Arms and Armour

Archaeology Collection

Includes both local archaeology (flints and ceramics) and some Egyptology (Alabaster, wood, ceramics, Model boat, a Mummy and two Mummy cases). Lady O’Hagan and Miss Holden donated the majority in the early 20th century and earliest finds are the pre dynastic Egyptian pottery. (c.4000BC).

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Archaeology

Ancient Egyptian Collection

The museum holds 414 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: coffins; faience vessels; furniture (head-rest); jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; human remains (mummies); offering tables; pottery; relief sculpture; cosmetic palettes; shabtis; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Abydos (Garstang); Beni Hasan (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Esna (Garstang and Jones – Liverpool University, 1905-1906); Reqaqnah (Garstang – Egyptian Research Account, 1901-1902).

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Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations

Science and Industry Collection

Trades are represented such as basket-making, a blacksmith, carpenter, clogger, cooper, pattern maker, plumbing, saddlers, sign writer, wheelwright. There are also shop fittings e.g. a coffee shop and bakery, bottles/bar fittings and street furniture. Industries such as textiles, engineering, coal mining and brewing are also included, together with miscellaneous machinery.

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Science and Industry

Photographic Collection

The collection of photographs comprises photographic prints (cartes-de-visite to modern), glass negatives, postcards and photographic equipment.

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Photography

Archives Collection

Manuscripts and printed material associated with local history themes.

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Archives

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Fine Art

The fine art collection has been developed around the original 21 paintings bequeathed by Alderman John Chisolm Towner upon his death in 1920 and now contains over 2,000 works, largely from the 19th and 20th centuries. There are around 120 European and British paintings dating from the 16th to 18th century. The 1976 Irene Law Bequest in 1976 introduced a number of 16th and 17th century European artists to the collection such as Henri met de Bies, Joseph van Aken, David Vinckebooms, Geeraert van Haarlem, Michiel van Musscher, Daniel Mytens, Pieter van de Velde, Circle of Jacob Huysmans and Circle of Frans Snyders. In addition the collection holds landscapes by Joseph Wright of Derby and Thomas Jones, a group of works by Eastbourne born John Hamilton Mortimer, Prints by Pierre Dieuet, Francisco Goya, Albrecht Durer and others. The larger collection (1200 items) of Victorian and 19th Century Art includes an important group of George and Isaac Cruikshank caricatures, the Towner Bequest of Victorian landscape and genre painting, a collection of topographical views of Eastbourne and Sussex including a large group of work by Louisa Paris, a small collection of fine quality miniatures by artists such as Henry Bone, Jean-Antoine Laurent, Pierre-Louis Bouvier, William Essex and William Ross and works by William Callow, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Henry La Thangue and Edward Stott. The Modern British Collection of 1100 items features works by major 20th century British artists including Edward Bawden, Normal Blarney, David Bomberg, Edward Burra, Vanessa Bell, Sandra Blow, Cecil Collins, Robert Colquhoun, Alan Davie, Elizabeth Frink, Henn Gaudier-Brezska, William Gear, Mark Gertler, Eric Gill, Duncan Grant, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Peter Lanyon, Robert Medley, Henry Moore, Cedrin Morris, Alfred Munnings, Victor Pasmore, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Matthew Smith, Ruskin Spear, Graham Sutherland, Keith Vaughan, Edward Wadsworth, Alfred Wallils, Carel Weight, Christopher Wood and Bryan Wynter. 20th Century European Art includes prints by Pablo Picasso, Sidney Noaln, Hans Hartung, Corneille, Sergio Gonzalez, Marcel Chirnogan, Jack Coutu, Tadek Beutlich, Leon Piesowocki and paintings by Helmet Kolle and others. The South East Collection of Contemporary Art has been acquired since 1978 by Eastbourne Borough Council and the Regional Arts Board (South East Arts) and represents key artists from the South East. The Gallery has also acquired works through the Contemporary Art Society’s Special Collections Scheme which funds 15 regional galleries in England to purchase major contemporary art by leading artists. The Towner holds a nationally important collection of work by Eastbourne’s renowned early 20th century British artist and designer, Eric Ravilious, including major watercolours and sketches, Wedgwood ceramics, wood engravings and lithographs.

Decorative/Applied Art

The Collection includes sculpture and ceramics (see fine art).

Photographic

The museum has an extensive photographic collection of over 4000 local history photographs and postcards.

Archaeology

There are over 3000 archaeological items covering the prehistory of Eastbourne from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period and including important finds from the waterlogged Bronze Age site at Shinewater.

Social History

There are nearly 2000 Victorian domestic items in the collection, forming one of its main strengths. Items record the history of Eastbourne from the Anglo-Saxon period to the development of Eastbourne as a tourist resort in the 19th Century and include a writing desk owned by the author Lewis Carroll who visited Eastbourne for holidays, and an illuminated Book of Hours.

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

Existing collections, including the subjects or themes and the periods of time and /or geographic areas to which the collections relate

Buses, coaches, battery electric road vehicles and fire appliances of Midlands operators and builders except where it has been necessary to look nationally to obtain a representative of a manufacturer’s products. In pursuance of this, the Trust’s vehicle collections comprise:

Vehicles representing the contribution made by the former Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited to the passenger vehicle industry, from the viewpoints of both the Company as the largest provincial operator of buses and coaches and their technical contribution to the design and manufacture of buses and coaches.

Vehicles representing the several former municipal bus operators in the County of West Midlands, and their successors, Transport for West Midlands.

Transport for West Midlands as of June 2024 is part of the West Midlands Combined Authority and thus includes the following organisations who operate bus services:

‘Constituent Authority’ means any local authority listed below:

• Birmingham City Council
• Coventry City Council
• Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
• Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
• City of Wolverhampton Council

‘Non-Constituent Authority’ means any local authority listed below:

• Cannock Chase District Council
• North Warwickshire Borough Council
• Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council
• Redditch Borough Council
• Rugby Borough Council
• Shropshire Council
• Stratford-on-Avon District Council
• Tamworth Borough Council
• Telford & Wrekin Council
• Warwick District Council
• Warwickshire County Council

Vehicles representing the products of bus and coach chassis and body manufacturers which were based within the County of West Midlands.

Representative vehicles of municipal and company operators within the bus route network of the former Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited, including the successor operating companies to the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited and Transport for West Midlands.

Landmark British bus and coach designs, including representatives of chassis and body builders not covered in 1) – 4).

Battery electric road vehicles representing national production.

Fire appliances operated within the region.

Archives pertaining to Midlands public transport and United Kingdom battery electric road vehicle builders and operators, in particular photographs, cine, video and DVD, book library, manufacturers’ technical literature including catalogues and manuals, publicity and point of sale material, ticket machines, timetable books, timetable leaflets, destination blinds, uniforms, engineering drawings of Midland Red and MCW manufactured vehicles, toys and models, and similar ephemera.

A collection of memorabilia and artefacts associated with the design, building or operation of Midlands public transport and United Kingdom battery electric road vehicles, in particular bus stops and other roadside furniture.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2024

Licence: CC BY-NC

The museum houses a wide range of trolleybuses. Of the 59 listed on its website in 2019, 28 were owned by the Sandtoft Trust, 13 by the British Trolleybus Society, one each by the Bradford Trolleybus Association, the Doncaster Omnibus and Light Railway Society, the National Trolleybus Association, and the Rotherham Trolleybus Group, while 14 were privately owned. They originally ran on 31 different systems, eight of which were abroad, 21 were in England, one was in Scotland and one was in Wales. Ten of them were single deck vehicles, 47 were double deck, and two were just chassis. The oldest was a Mexborough and Swinton vehicle, dating from 1928, while the newest was part of an experimental scheme by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, and was built in 1985. One vehicle does not fit into most of these categories, as it is a replica of a single deck trolleybus originally built for the Keighley system in 1911, but built for the museum in the Czech Republic and delivered in 2019.

In addition to trolleybuses, 14 diesel buses are located at the museum, some of which are used to give tours around the locality on open days. The collection also includes some service vehicles, including four tower wagons, which were used to maintain the overhead wiring, the oldest of which dates from 1903 and was horse-drawn. Other ancillary vehicles include a pole crane, a Smith Electric Vehicles parcel van, three tractors and the lower saloons of two trams.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article “The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft”, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Source: Wikipedia

Date: 2025

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Social History Collection

The museum has an extensive collection of artefacts relating to the social and local history of Trowbridge, including the Whitaker collection of social and domestic items. The collection of machinery and artefacts related to the town’s important textile industry, although counted with this collection, is described under a science and industry collection heading. -Family and Domestic Life, Education, Childhood, Fashion.

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Social History

Geology Collection

This is the Crabbe collection of fossils, there is also a herbaria. This collection relates to the poet George Crabbe, Rector of Trowbridge from 1814-1832.

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Geology

Fine Art Collection

There is the Garlick collection of topographical prints and drawings, given to the town by Herbert Garlick in 1932.

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Fine Art

Personalia Collection

There is material relating to Sir Isaac Pitman, Trowbridge’s most famous citizen. His form of shorthand has become accepted as the best method of writing rapidly. A weaver’s son, he was born in Naish’s Yard, Trowbridge in 1813, published his first book on shorthand at the age of 24, was knighted in 1894 and died three years later. There is also material relating to Abraham Bowyer, born in South Wraxall in 1793. He began a business selling home-cured bacon, opening a factory in the 1840s. The company he founded, Bowyers, is now a national meat processing business.

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Personalia

Science and Industry Collection

The local woollen cloth industry is well represented in this collection which includes a rare early spinning jenny used in Trowbridge; a carding machine; a spinning mule; a Dobcross power loom; a fulling machine and teasel gig; a shearing frame; and a pair of large shears. There is also a hand loom from a weaver’s cottage. There is a significant collection of textile machinery, tools, woollen cloth samples and other material relating to the local woollen cloth industry. The woollen trade in the west country reached its peak between 1845 and 1875, when Trowbridge was known as ‘the Manchester of the West’. In the 1850s, 12 mills operated in the town.

Subjects

Industry and commerce; Textile manufacture; Science and Industry

Archaeology Collection

This collection comprises the finds from the medieval Trowbridge Castle and from excavation of a clay pipe kiln.

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Archaeology

Costume and Textile Collection

There is the Taylor collection of materials from a Trowbridge drapery shop. The collection includes shop fittings and fixtures.

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Costume and Textile

Archives Collection

There is the Lansdown collection of printed ephemera.

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Archives

Other

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Agriculture; Arms and Armour; Medals; Music; Oral history; Photographs; Transport

Source: Cornucopia

Date: Not known, but before 2015

Licence: CC BY-NC

The North End Trust was established in 1989 by Patricia Midgley who undertook the task of building a collection in order to open a Museum. In 1991, the Museum opened. A Research Centre was added and opened in 2004. It was renamed in her honour in 2014.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2024

Licence: CC BY-NC

The collections consist of buildings, a fishing boat, artefacts and archives. The main buildings are the cottages, the smokehouse, the smithy (housing a collection based on fishing and sailing) and the collection of buildings that make up the other part of the museum where artefacts and the research centre are housed. Another important part of the museum is the restored fishing boat “The Activity”. This is situated in the Yard opposite the cottages. We hold the archives for Eastern Inshore Fisheries, which is an ongoing project to hold all their archives.

Source: Collection development policy

Date: 2024

Licence: CC BY-NC