Collection: Lakeland Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Decorative and Applied Art Collection

  The collection includes items of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Cumbria including linen cloth and Ruskin Lace produced by Langdale Linen Industry, hand embroidered textiles produced by the ‘Spinnery’ run by Annie Garnett and her sister Frances and metalwork items from the Keswick School of Industrial Art, which was founded in 1884 by Canon Rawnsley and was one of the longest running of the Arts and Crafts groups. Other important items are the tables, bureaux and chairs by Arthur Simpson of Kendal. There is also material related to C F A Voysey and Baillie Scott. There are 20 long case clocks and items associated with clock making.

  Costume and Textile Collection

  Large collection of locally made and/or worn costume which dates from the 17th to mid 20th century and includes accessories and jewellery.

  Subjects

  Costume and Textile

  Social History Collection

  Advertising, packaging and greetings cards, ephemera, souvenirs, kitchen equipment, laundry, household textiles, embroidery, parlour decorations, toys, dolls and games, schools and education, health, sport and leisure and including entertainment and hobbies. Domestic items also include vernacular oak furniture, mainly 17th and early 18th century and other furnishings such as firescreens, hot water bottles and bedpans.

  Subjects

  Social History

  Science and Industry Collection

  Tools, machinery and objects relating to local urban and light industries including printing, weaving, wool trade, mechanics, painting/decorating, shoemaking, clogging, leather/tanning industry, horn working, metalworking, engineer, brush making, brewing, snuff manufacture, shopkeeping and papermaking. Rural trades represented include farriery, saddlery, mining and quarrying, coppice trades, swill making, hoop making, coopery, charcoal burning, Besom making, potash burning, blacksmith, wheelwright, bobbin making and gunpowder manufacture.

  Subjects

  Science and Industry

  Agriculture Collection

  Farm implements, agricultural tools, veterinary equipment, harnesses, trapping equipment, animal husbandry and dairying.

  Subjects

  Agriculture

  Arms and Armour Collection

  WWI and WWII material.

  Subjects

  Arms and Armour

  Oral History Collection

  Oral history/dialect transcriptions in association with local oral history groups.

  Subjects

  Oral History

  Personalia Collection

  The museum holds a collection of drawings, photographs and memorabilia owned by Arthur Ransome’s, author of Swallows and Amazons, including his desk, flags, and many books.

  Subjects

  Personalia

  Subjects

  Decorative and Applied Arts

  Photographic Collection

  A small collection of cameras, glass negatives, slides and photographs, including the work of several Lake District photographers and a sizeable collection of images in the Abraham Collection (on deposit from the Fell and Rock Climbing Club).

  Subjects

  Photography; Photographic equipment

  Biology Collection

  A small secondary collection of items used to complement display themes and including such items as ornamental cased birds, shells, fish and domestic animals.

  Subjects

  Biology

  Archives Collection

  Archives relating to local authors such as Arthur Ransome and John Cunliffe and other material (in conjunction with Cumbria Record Office).

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC