- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7380528
- Also known as:
- Rural Life Centre, Old Kiln Agricultural Museum
- Instance of:
- open-air museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 418
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7380528/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Social History
The buildings acquired by the museum include a prefab, Anderson shelter, 1860s timber chapel, WWI barrack room (the Museum’s hall) and 1883 timber cricket pavilion. The Museum also collects associated material to be used in the interpretation of these structures. Themes include local transport and local village life.
Science and Industry
Crafts, trades and professions are represented through a range of items including a Wood-turners workshop, Wheelwright’s shop, tools of the thatcher, broomsquire and cooper, tools of the cobbler, a machine shop and engines, gantry crane (foundry), tools of the carpenter, carts, plumbing equipment, grocery items, enamel signs, scales and butcher, baker, dairy, tailoring, haberdasher and chemist shops.
Agriculture
The agricultural collections include horse drawn vehicles and implements, heavy horse harness and equipment, seed drills, ploughs, hand tools, traps and trapping, scales, hops, haymaking and harvesting, drainage, beekeeping, poultry husbandry, corn grinding machinery, reapers. granary and grain handling display. Shepherds hut and shepherding implements. Victorian stables. Horticulture – gardening tools, mowers and other grass tending implements. Market gardening machinery and other equipment. Tree and bush bundlers. Forestry – Horse drawn timber nibs etc., hand tools, Moss edge tools, saws and saw sets, machinery.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC