Nidderdale Museum

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Nidderdale Museum
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Location within North Yorkshire
Established1975 (1975) [1]
Location Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England
Coordinates 54°05′16″N1°45′33″W / 54.08787°N 1.75930°W / 54.08787; -1.75930
TypeLocal history museum
Visitors7,000 [1]
Website Official website

Nidderdale Museum is a local and social history museum in the market town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England. [2] The museum is housed in a former workhouse, and is normally open every week from Tuesday to Sunday 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. from Easter (or 1 April) to 31 October, and only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. over the winter months, from November to March. The Museum is closed on a Monday. There is a small entry charge for adults. Accompanied children under 16 are free. [3]

Contents

The museum is run by volunteers. [4] The Nidderdale Museum Society has two hundred members, with an elected Committee, and a Board of Trustees. [5]

Exhibits

The exhibits focus on rural life, with sections devoted to agriculture, local industries, religion, transport and costume, set out across 11 rooms. Displays include re-creations of a Victorian schoolroom, a cobbler's workshop, a lead mining tunnel, a Victorian parlour, [1] general store, a 1930s hairdresser's shop and a kitchen. Other displays include historic costumes, agriculture tools and equipment, local industries and transport vehicles. [6]

The museum also has a reference library of books relating to the local history and life of Nidderdale, and materials for local and family history research. [7]

History of the museum

The museum was established in 1975 by a group of local enthusiasts. Some of the group had been members of the local history class which wrote A History of Nidderdale, first published in 1967, [8] and they invited Bernard Jennings, editor of the History, to become one of the first trustees. [6] : 232  Harrogate Borough Council provided premises for the museum in the redundant offices of the Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District Council, originally built as a workhouse in 1863. [6] : xvii 

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In 1990 the museum won the National Heritage Museum of the Year Award for "The Museum which does the Most with the Least". [6] : 247–248  In 2017 the volunteers at Nidderdale Museum were honoured with the Queen's Award. [1] [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Queen's Award success for North Yorkshire's secret gem". Harrogate Advertiser. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. ↑ Long, Peter (2004). The hidden places of England (4 ed.). Aldermaston: Travel. p. 618. ISBN   1904434126.
  3. ↑ The Rough Guide to Yorkshire. 2019. p. 209. ISBN   978 1 789 19415 9.
  4. ↑ "Pateley Bridge - the village with winning ways". yorkshirelife.co.uk. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "The History of Nidderdale Museum". Nidderdale Museum Society. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Moody, Joanna (2014). Traces of Nidderdale in 40 Years and 40 Objects. ISBN   978 0 9928508 0 7.
  7. ↑ "The woman of Nidderdale who left a lasting legacy of wisdom and warmth" . The Yorkshire Post. 13 July 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
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