- Wikidata identifier:
- Q12062380
- Also known as:
- Yorkshire Mining Museum
- Instance of:
- heritage centre; mining museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 4
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q12062380/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Science and Industry Collection
Lamps, especially Yorkshire including the Wilf Company Early coal cutting machines Rescue equipment, especially breathing apparatus Gas detectors including flame and electrically operated Shot firing material especially exploders and dummy pills Surveying equipment including dials, theodolites, dumpy levels, tripods and distomats models of machinery plans covering mining boundaries and workings Caphouse Collection of 6,000 accessioned, mainly Yorkshire, material including large machines, objects , works of art, printed ephemera, photographs and books; many acquired during the pit closure programme of 1980s and 90s. Includes some large collections from British Coal with part of the Art collection and some locomotives now on loan to various preservation societies. British Coal Collection of 4,000 items transferred from Lound Hall, Notts. This is the NCB historic collection formed by Dr Alan Griffin in the 1970s and 80s and is a closed collection. It has a 19th century hazel corf, a Little Eaton (Derbys) gangway waggon and most of a Mecco Moore coal cutter.
Subjects
Science and Industry
Geology Collection
Contains 2 comprehensive collections from former Training Colleges and Coal Measure fossils from Yorkshire Collieries.
Subjects
Geology
Social History Collection
Trade Union material including commemorative, memorabilia and ephemera (most banners are on loan). Management and administration: tables, chairs, typewriters , calculators and pay objects. Medical: Caphouse medical room, sterilising units and firt aid kits. Commemorative material from various disasters. Non-technological aspects of colliery life illustrating domestic, leisure, family and welfare interests.
Subjects
Social History
Fine Art Collection
Includes paintings, drawings, sketches, prints, sculpture and photography with work by miner artist especially the Norman Phillips archive, H A Freeth Pit profiles series and Perlee Parker’s Pitmen at Play. Norman Phillips archive H. A. Freeth Pit Profiles Perlee Parker’s Pitmen at Play.
Subjects
Fine Art
Photographic Collection
Large proportion related to machines or the functioning of the pit. Includes prints, negatives, transparencies, glass slides, film and video at 16mm, U-matic and VHS. Albert Walker albums -colliery surface features especially headframes BJD albums recording the firm’s production Glass lantern sides for training purposes Material related to functions of the pit and individual pits.
Subjects
Photography
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC