Collection: Pendle Heritage Centre

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Social History Collection

  The local/social history material relates to North East Lancashire and includes community life themes such as cultural traditions, organisations, regulations, welfare, education, housing structures. Domestic life is represented by items relating to pastimes, heating, lighting and sanitation, furniture and furnishings, cleaning and maintenance, food, drink and tobacco, sport and entertainment, relics/mementoes, timekeeping and personal grooming. Architectural features include fragments of medieval buildings, 17th, 18th and 19th century doors, windows, plasterwork, decorative ironwork and door furniture and also 19th and 20th century fireplaces and hob grates. The association with Witchcraft at Pendle and the Lancashire Witches is also reflected in collections relating to local folklore and personalities of the area.

  Subjects

  Social History

  Agriculture Collection

  A collection of agricultural tools and machinery compliment the farm buildings at Pendle Heritage centre. There are also items relating to forestry, fishing and horticulture including documentary evidence of gardening in the region since the late 17th century, a group of 200 traditional gardening tools and implements and an archive of 400 of the plants grown at Park Hill in the 18th century, with botanical descriptions (researched by the Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens).

  Subjects

  Agriculture

  Fine Art Collection

  A collection of paintings, prints, lithographs and engravings of local topography, events, buildings and personalities by artists visiting the area from the 18th century onwards. There are also works by local artists.

  Subjects

  Fine Art

  Personalia Collection

  18th century diaries of Abraham Hargreaves and Elizabeth Shackleton (Barrowford residents). There are archives of family history relating to the Bannister and Swinglehurst families, who resided at Park Hill.

  Subjects

  Personalia

  Science and Industry Collection

  Peat cutting and coal extraction and water supply industry. Manufacturing industries include textile, leather/leather goods, footwear and clothing, and other trades including building construction and repair.

  Subjects

  Science and Industry

  Arms and Armour Collection

  Warfare and defence includes civilian life in wartime and civil defence units.

  Subjects

  Arms and Armour

  Costume and Textile Collection

  Costume includes men’s, women’s and children’s.

  Subjects

  Costume and Textile

  Decorative and Applied Art Collection

  A collection of regional vernacular furniture.

  Subjects

  Decorative and Applied Arts

  Oral History Collection

  Oral history archive on Lancashire Textile Industry.

  Subjects

  Oral History

  Transport Collection

  General, road, rail and inland waterway transport history is represented in the collection.

  Subjects

  Transport

  Photographic Collection

  A substantial collection of B/W photographic prints and negatives dating from the 1870s onwards.

  Subjects

  Photography

  Archives Collection

  A rare collection of antiquarian and architectural books on the North West region, maps and estate documents dating from the 17th century to present, Indentures and inventories relating to Park Hill (one dated 1654), 17th century Will transcripts and inventories of people in the Forest of Pendle. Research material including photos and documents associated with the public ‘Houses of the Lancashire Pennines’ by Sarah Pearson (1984), a local buildings survey of 1975 featuring property of historic and architectural interest and a survey of water power sites in Pendle.

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC