- Wikidata identifier:
- Q4878608
- Also known as:
- Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life
- Instance of:
- museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1359
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q4878608/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Agriculture Collection
Collection of hand tools, horse drawn tools, farm processing machinery and a butchery.
Subjects
Agriculture
Biology Collection
Small collection of local species and antiquarian collections of British bird eggs and nests, butterflies and local fossils.
Subjects
Biology
Ethnography Collection
Small collection by locally born missionaries and local people who returned from living abroad, mainly from South Pacific and Africa.
Subjects
Ethnography
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
Extensive collections of 19th and 20th century ladies costume up to 1950s and a small collection of men’s clothing. Collection of jewellery, silverware, smoking requisites, writing equipment and stationery. Late 19th and early 20th century toys, nursery furniture and equipment, especially dolls and tinplate.
Subjects
Decorative and Applied Arts
Photographic Collection
Sydney Smith, a local professional photographer active between 1920 and 1950, original negatives, both glass and film, and print Important collection of photographic equipment, cameras, negatives and prints, especially Sydney Smith, a local professional photographer active between 1920 and 1950, original negatives, both glass and film, and prints.
Subjects
Photographic equipment
Social History Collection
Large collection of washing machines, sewing machines, flat irons, vacuums and sweeps, kitchen utensils and a small collection of militaria. Also Ironmongers, Village shop, chemists with a drug run, a public house and a dairy.
Subjects
Social History
Transport Collection
Small collection of 19th century horse drawn vehicles including farm waggons, stone waggon, 2 wheel tipping block cart, a trap, a bier, hand carts and barrows.
Subjects
Transport
Science and Industry Collection
Mainly industrial trades and crafts, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, cobblers, coopers, printers, millwrights, bee keeping, game keeping, gardening, brush and besom making and saddlery mainly dating from 1850 to 1940s with a few 1800-1850, but also building, small collection including a stone waggon and whaling, carved bones and teeth (Scrimshaw) and items relating to Nicholas Piper, a Pickering whaling captain. Mainly industrial trades and crafts, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, cobblers, coopers, printers, millwrights, bee keeping, game keeping, gardening, brush and besom making and saddlery mainly dating from 1850 to 1940s with a few 1800-1850. Whaling, carved bones and teeth (Scrimshaw) and items relating to Nicholas Piper, a Pickering whaling captain.
Subjects
Science and Industry
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC