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Wikidata identifier:
Q5904517
Also known as:
Hornsea Museum
Instance of:
local museum; independent museum
Museum/collection status:
Accredited museum
Accreditation number:
1209
Persistent shareable link for this record:
https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5904517/

Collection-level records:

  • Collection overview (Cornucopia)

    Science and Industry Collection

    Tools of trades include wheelwright, joiner, carpenter, cooper and items relating to the local Hornsea Brick and Tile works, Hull to Hornsea railway, Hornsea Pottery and local windmills.

    Subjects

    Science and Industry

    Decorative and Applied Art Collection

    Large collection of Hornsea pottery collected over a period of years from 1960s and at the recent closure of the factory in Hornsea. The largest single collection in the country includes examples of all the pottery produced, designers, artists, and sales literature. Significant element displayed at any one time.

    Subjects

    Decorative and Applied Arts

    Social History Collection

    A collection of the full range of domestic objects including clocks, furniture, textiles, equipment and tools , pre-electric era, from 17th to 20th century particularly relating to Hornsea and the Burns family who lived at Burn’s Farm before it became the museum. Photographs, archives, documents and maps relating to Hornsea and the surrounding villages.

    Subjects

    Social History

    Personalia Collection

    Collections of items relating to Rose Carr, Joseph Armytage Wade, Edward John Eyre and Coll J J Harrison.

    Subjects

    Personalia

    Arms and Armour Collection

    The collection relates to local Volunteer and other regiments stationed in Holderness from the East Riding Yeomanry to the 226 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service Hornsea Mere, Home Guard, Coast Guard, Women’s Land Army, Red Cross and St Johns Ambulance and National Service generally.

    Subjects

    Arms and Armour

    Agriculture Collection

    Farming implements are pre-combustion engine and include some horse drawn in particular a locally manufactured wooden plough and ‘scruffiers’- adjustable hoes made in the 1930s. There is a hand turned cattle cake crusher and a root crusher. A ‘hicking barrow’ by which two men would lift a sack of grain on to a third man’s back. The later mechanical sack hoist enabled one man to lift a sack on his own. Tools and other implements.

    Subjects

    Agriculture

    Source: Cornucopia

    Date: Not known, but before 2015

    Licence: CC BY-NC

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