Collection: Clifton Park Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Decorative and Applied Art Collection

  Large collection, about 4200 pieces, of 18th and 19th century ceramics, especially locally made Brameld earthenware and Rockingham porcelain, but also 20th century sculpture, 116 pieces of bronze and plaster casts; 300 items of metalwork across a range; 5000 pieces of glassware including drinking glasses but especially the local Beatson Clark pharmaceutical ware from 1800 to present; 120 pieces of 19th and 20th century furniture; 1000 pieces of costume and textile, mainly 19th century samplers, Berlinwork, table linen and lace and women’s clothing from 1850 to 1950; 450 pieces of jewellery -mourning and semi-precious stones ? Hall-Grundy? Locally made Brameld earthenware including plain marked creamware, chalkware, decorative pieces, caneware, transfer printed teawares, nursery plates and painted toiletwares and Rockingham porcelain including dinner and dessert services, teawares, jugs, baskets, vases, garnitures and figures. These are shown in “Made in Swinton” galleries at Clifton Park. The Rockingham factory, a family business, employed hundreds of local people and produced work to rival Derby, Chelsea and Wedgwood. 5000 pieces of glassware including drinking glasses but especially the local Beatson Clark pharmaceutical ware from 1800 to present.

  Subjects

  Decorative and Applied Arts

  Biology Collection

  Large collections many of local origin collected by local society members and includes 4,300 vertebrates including fish, birds, bird eggs, amphibians, reptiles and mammals; 22,000 invertebrates including molluscs and insects from Rotherham , UK and world wide; 1500 botanical specimens including vascular plants, lichens and Fungi; Large collections includes 4,300 vertebrates including fish, birds, bird eggs, amphibians, reptiles and mammals; 22,000 invertebrates including molluscs and insects from Rotherham , UK and world wide; 1500 botanical specimens including vascular plants, lichens and Fungi;

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  Biology

  Geology Collection

  Mainly fossils from the local area especially plants, but also a small mineral collection, world wide.

  Subjects

  Geology

  Ethnography Collection

  Collection is about 250 items from Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas and was transferred on ‘Indefinite loan ‘ to Leeds Museums in 1981. The collection is documented and catalogued and has returned to Rotherham.

  Arms and Armour Collection

  Militaria collection as distinct from the York and Lancaster Regiment collection, is about 250 items with emphasis on local military history especially service men and women and their families serving in the Borough.

  Subjects

  Arms and Amour

  Numismatics Collection

  6000 coins, mainly British, ranging from 4th century BC to present. 6000 coins, mainly British, ranging from 4th century BC to present, a small percentage are foreign.

  Subjects

  Numismatics

  Archaeology Collection

  The collection covers palaeolithic to medieval and is about 10,000 items largely excavated from the Roman Fort at Templeborough, from Roche Abbey and Jesus College. There is also material from sites within the borough and from around Britain and overseas. 10,000 items largely excavated from the Roman Fort at Templeborough, from Roche Abbey and Jesus College.

  Subjects

  Archaeology

  Ancient Egyptian Collection

  The museum holds 90 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coffins (fragments of three faces); faience figures; toys/games; glass object; jewellery; animal remains (mummies); pottery; scarabs; shabtis; cosmetic palettes; stela (stone); stone vessels; tools/weapons; spindle whorls. 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): Beni Hasan (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1902-1904); Fayum; Nagada (no information in museum records but possibly Petrie, 1894-1895).

  Subjects

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

  Social History Collection

  7,000 objects covering working life, domestic, personal and community life from 1660 to the present, but mainly 1850 to 1950 of the local area. There is domestic and household equipment, weights and measures, leisure activities, religion, and tools and equipment from local manufacturers and their products. Architecture. Small collection of about 90 fragments from demolished buildings in Rotherham.

  Archives Collection

  Environmental Records have been held and created since 1975 as species based record cards indexed on all groups of fauna and flora. Environmental Records have been held and created since 1975 as species based record cards indexed on all groups of fauna and flora for the Metropolitan Borough. Also a large collection of field notebooks and records all now held at the Biological Records Centre at Grove Road.

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  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC