The Collected Collections

A Collections Survey for the North West Federation of Museums & Art Galleries

Objectives

The aim of this survey is to bring together and arrange data on the collections held by museums in the area covered by the North West Museums Service. Each section has an overview of the data presented, but detailed analysis is left for future researchers.

The purpose in collecting this data is to inform people, particularly curators, about which collections are where. In this way it is hoped to facilitate co-operation between the region’s museums in their collecting activities and in their use of and access to collections.

Through the data collected it is also hoped that curators will have a starting point to begin identifying -

• Overlaps and gaps in the geographical collecting areas

• Overlaps and gaps in the subject fields being collected in the region

• Centres of curatorial expertise (possibly where major collections are held)

• Collections or items of regional, national or international significance.

This report can also be used in association with other collection reports which have been carried out in the region such as:

• The Conservation of Industrial Collections - A Survey by JD Storer. Pub. The Science Museum and The Conservation Unit of the Museums & Galleries Commission, 1989 • Skeletons in the Cupboard - A report on the condition of institutionally held natural science collections in the North West of , with suggestions for their care and use. Compiled and published by North West Collections Research Unit, 1998 (compiled 1994) • First Steps towards a National Inventory of Historic Machinery. Ed. Simon Chaplin. Pub. The Northern Textile Industry Curators’ Group in conjunction with the Science and Industry Collections Group and The Science Museum, 1998 • University Collections by Kate Arnold Foster

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A major problem in conducting this survey has been the difficulty in getting museums to provide the necessary data. The first requests for information were sent out in January 1996. At this point it was hoped that some kind of document would be produced in the same year.

A patchy and generally slow response rate has meant that repeated requests for information have been sent out from time to time over the last two years. In some cases this has been due to vacant posts, staff changes or reviews of collecting policies, which have made it difficult to send the required information.

Notwithstanding a two year gap since the first information was received, a broad base of information has now been compiled, which forms a useful starting point for further collection discussion and co-operation in the region.

Many thanks to those people who did provide the information on which this report is based.

Feedback

The North West Federation of Museums and Art Galleries is keen to have feedback about this report - its usefulness, relevance, content and the way forward in light of the collection information which it provides. If you have any comments please contact the Honorary Secretary, North West Federation of Museums & Art Galleries.

Methodology

Data Collection

Data for the survey was collected in three ways

1. By standard letter requesting a copy of each museums collecting policy or similar document.

2. By sending a summary of their collections and collecting activities, to each museum who provided a collecting policy.

3. By sending a questionnaire to each museum see Appendix I .

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Requests for collecting policies and questionnaires were sent to all Registered museums in the North West Museums Service.

Full details of which museums provided collecting policies, returned survey summaries of their policies and returned questionnaires are provided in Appendix II . Data and statistics in this survey are based only on those museums which provided information through any of the data collection methods listed under Data Collection .

71 of the 88 Museum Services contacted provided at least one of the items of information requested. These Museum Services run some 145 museums and galleries.

The way in which data was supplied varied from museum to museum. In some cases a service-wide response was sent, in others individual museums or even departments provided information separately. This is indicated where possible. In general most of the region’s larger museums or more significant collections are represented.

No information at all was provided by 16 Museum Services who run 16 museums and galleries.

All data analysis within the survey is based on the 71 Museum Services who did provide the necessary information.

Data Analysis

Museums and galleries are analysed according to their Museum Service or Governing Body e.g. Museum appears under County Museum Service.

Collections were analysed by eighteen collection field headings. These were arrived at by listing all the collection field categories used by the respondent museums in their individual collecting policies. From this extensive list the categories were analysed and the headings which most simply and accurately described the range of collections within the region were selected.

Collections were allocated to the subject field heading which seemed the most appropriate according to the way in which the museums themselves list or use their collections. The headings used are as follows -

Archaeology / Antiquities Industrial History Egyptology Transport History Ethnography Maritime History Natural History Science Geology Military History Fine Art Numismatics Decorative Art Ephemera Costume & Photographic Social History Archives

The Collected Collections Page 3 September 1998 It is important when using the collection tables to remember that collections have in general been allocated to the most appropriate heading. This does not mean that this is the only relevant heading. For instance a military collection may equally hold items relating to decorative art, such as silver or ceramics, fine art , costume & textiles (uniform and colours), ethnography (collected from campaigns) and other survey headings. The way in which collections have been listed is guided by the way in which they are presented in collecting policies and by any comments or amendments received with returned summaries.

In some cases cross-referencing is used. Again this is dependent on how policies were set out and on the summaries which were returned.

The amount of detail provided about collections and the way in which they are divided up varies enormously from one collecting policy to the next. For instance some policies list collections by date period e.g. prehistoric, mesolithic etc.; others list by material e.g. bone, pottery, organic materials; while others use a combination e.g. oil , Flemish School, 17th century. Some collections give a detailed listing of every subject sub-heading, where others give very broad subject headings with no detail whatsoever. The tables do, as far as possible, include the level of detail set down in each museum’s collecting policy.

Having gone through so many collecting policies, which present information in so many different ways we are acutely aware of how difficult it is to gain an impression from collecting policies alone of the region’s existing collections and current collecting activities. The wide variety of ways in which they are set out makes it quite difficult to quickly and easily compare collection information. The creation of a standard format for presenting collecting policies, and the collection details within them, would certainly seem a sensible long-term goal if curators genuinely wish to share information about collections, both from the professional and the public’s point of view.

Although collecting policies are generally public documents very few of the documents received could be considered user-friendly from an ordinary member of the public’s point of view. To change the public perception of what museums collect, so that future collecting is better focused and more relevant to their objectives and the communities they serve, museums need to do more work in making this information more easily accessible.

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One of the main intentions of this project has been to provide curators with information about existing collections in the region and where they are.

The following table and chart are based on collection management policies, collecting policies or similar documents provided by 74 museums and galleries. More detailed information of where these collections are held is given in Appendix III . The tables give full details of all collecting categories.

Ref. Collection Field Museums with Relevant % Collections 1 Archaeology/Antiquities 41 (inc 1 loan coll) 55.4 2 Egyptology 18(inc 1 loan coll) 24.3 3 Ethnography 18 24.3 4 Natural History 36 (inc 1 loan coll) 48.6 5 Geology 30 40.5 6 Fine Art 54 73 7 Decorative Art 46 62.2 8 Costume & Textiles 46 62.2 9 Social History 61 82.4 10 Industrial History 43 58.1 11 Transport History 32 43.2 12 Maritime 17 23 13 Science 7 9.5 14 Military History 30 40.5 15 Numismatics 35 47.3 16 Ephemera 35 47.3 17 Photographic 46 62.2 18 Archives 45 60.8

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Breakdown of Collection Fields

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The information in the table gives a good indication of the distribution of collection subject fields within the region’s museums and galleries. It is important to note however that some museums do not supply a full list of their existing collections in their policies. In the case of museums that have returned the survey collections summary with confirmation or amendments this should not prove a problem. In the case of those museums that did not return their collection summary there may be some collections which do not appear in the survey data.

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Archaeology/Antiquities

Egyptology

Ethnography

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NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Archaeology/Antiquities, Egyptology & Ethnography *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Allerdale Borough Helena Thompson Museums Museum - Helena Misc archaeological Thompson material Museum † - Workington Keswick Museum & Art Keswick Museum Gallery - & Art Gallery *† Archaeology 500 Maryport Maritime Museum † Armitt Trust Museum & Local material 70 Library *† - Ambleside Bulk material (part of archive of Ambleside Roman Fort excavation by R G Collingwood) Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Late mesolithic to iron age No details Museums Service *† Roman Dock Museum Medieval

The Collected Collections Page 8 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Beacon, The *† - Most significant - Whitehaven St Bees shroud c.1300 d'Irton tomb slab Quern stones Roman glass phial 345 Museum & Survey records Mummy (1 whole, 1 2 Reverend Ashe Art Gallery *† Archaeology of dismembered & Collection Lewis Textile Borough unwrapped) ELR Benin expedition Museum Architecture of Ceramics collection Borough All probably excavated Various other items Geophysics of by Professor Garstang in parish church site C19 South Asian collections - Excavations of various mainly contemporary sites (more details textile & costume, available if required) acquired since 1990 - Small coll of chance small treated separately from finds, purchases and coins other museum (see Numismatics) ethnography S American ceramics - Poss pre-Columbian 4

The Collected Collections Page 9 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Boat Museum *† - Ellesmere Port Bolton Museums & Art British - Textiles 1,500 Africa Gallery *† Mesolithic to Post- Funerary India Central Museum, Medieval Domestic Middle East AG & Aquarium Foreign - Pacific Hall i'th'Wood Near East S.America Swiss China Local History Pre-Columbian Burma Museum (closed - Aztec Japan colls in store '93) N.America Europe Tonge Moor S.America 2,000 Europe (closed - colls in Africa store '93) India Pacific Australasia Greek Bury Art Gallery and Local archaeology 65 Ethnography 200 Museum

The Collected Collections Page 10 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items City Museums Cumbrian Guildhall British Museum Non-British Tullie House Museum & Art Significant named Gallery collections R Ferguson R Harkness J Robinson R Darbishire J E C Carrick R Fisher Netherby Hall collection Tullie House excavations 1892-3 Excavated material esp. by Carlisle Archaeological Unit

The Collected Collections Page 11 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Prehistoric Guildhall Flint Museum Stone tools & Tullie House weapons Museum & Art Bronze tools & Gallery weapons Pottery (domestic (continued) & funerary) Worked bone/horn/antler objects Personal dress ornaments in gold/bronze/glass/ stone & jet Horse harness Quern & grinding stones Spinning & equipment

The Collected Collections Page 12 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Prehistoric (continued) Guildhall Museum Bewcastle bronze Tullie House cauldron Museum & Art Edenhall cup-and- Gallery ring marked stone Croglin stone (continued) spearhead moulds Cockermouth gold neck-ring Great Langdale neolithic factory site stone implements & weapons Cherry flint collection Macdonald flint collection Roman strong quality collection inc. some of named colls above

The Collected Collections Page 13 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Roman (continued) Guildhall Hadrian’s Wall Museum excavations Tullie House Inscribed & Museum & Art sculptured stone Gallery Roman civilian and military life (continued) Pottery Glassware Leatherwork Coins Dress Equipment Weapons Tools Toilet articles Writing implements Vehicle fittings Lamps Keys & locks Games Building materials

The Collected Collections Page 14 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Anglian/Viking, small but Guildhall good quality Museum Viking burials at Tullie House Ormside & Hesket Museum & Art Nan Bield Gallery spearhead Thames sword (continued) Scotby silver ingots Brooches from Penrith & Casterton Stone cross Grave marker, lintel & stone coffin Coins

Medieval, wide & gen good Ceramics Glassware Leatherwork Coins Tokens Tiles

The Collected Collections Page 15 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Medieval (continued) Guildhall Museum Inscribed & Tullie House sculpted stone Museum & Art Weapons & Gallery military equipment Dress ornaments (continued) Cooking & drinking vessels City chest, pillory & stocks Guild items Racing bells Corporation silver & plate Town bell Weights & measures Tools Mortars Quern & grinding stones 40,000

The Collected Collections Page 16 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Catalyst *† - Widnes (On Loan) (On Loan) 10 20 Military Museum *† Cheshire Museums *† - Archaeology Museum Services Unit Salt Museum † Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Excavation finds 1,400 Service *† boxes Grosvenor Metalwork (Roman & 310 Museum Medieval) Heritage Centre Pottery - complete & 468 King Charles restored Tower Glass Water Tower Precious metals Roman stones 300 Arms & armour 175 Chorley Arts & Bronze age Museums Service † Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery

The Collected Collections Page 17 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items City of Croxteth Hall & Country Park *† Police Museum *† - Penrith Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum Englesea Brook Chapel African - brought back by & Museum of Primitive missionaries Methodism *† - Crewe 30 Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The *† - Bury Greater Police Museum *† Grundy Art Gallery † -

The Collected Collections Page 18 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Harris Museum & Art Ice age Egyptian N America Gallery *† - Preston Bronze Oceania Late bronze age Africa Viking Australasia 200 World - Prehistoric Pottery - Greek/Hellenistic 2,050 inc Egyptian Haworth Art Gallery - Heritage Trust for the North West † (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum *† - Milnthorpe

The Collected Collections Page 19 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Lake District Art Gallery Museum of Kendal Museum of & Museum Trust *† Natural History & Natural History & Abbot Hall Art Archaeology - Archaeology - Gallery - Kendal Kendal Museum Majority of finds are Egyptian material inc. of Natural multiple groups of excavations in early History & excavated material from 1900s Archaeology the same horizons inc. Museum of Langdale Axe Lakeland Life & Factory Industry - Kendal Mesolithic tools from N Westmorland Uplands Roman finds from Watercrook Ambleside Tebay 1,200

The Collected Collections Page 20 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Lancashire County County Palatine Does not collect Museum Service † Pre-historic Judges' Roman Lodgings † - Dark age Lancaster Medieval Fleetwood Post-medieval Museum † County & Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 21 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Lancaster City Excavation finds Egyptology 20 Museums *† Casual finds Lancaster Individual finds 750 Museum *† Collections 120 Lancaster Hoards 10 Maritime Museum *† Casual find at Maritime Cottage Museum Museum 20 Roman Bath House St. Patrick's 1,020 Chapel, Heysham Town Hall Collections Littleborough Museum Flint implements Excavation plans & reports Macclesfield Museums West Park Museum & West Park Museum & Trust † Art Gallery - Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Egyptian items inc. Maori chief’s sword Paradise Mill Cartonnage masks West Park Mummified crocodile, Syrian embroidered scarf Museum & Art ibis, hawk, cat Gallery *Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 22 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums West Park Museum & West Park Museum & Trust Art Gallery - Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Egyptian items Ethnography (continued) Paradise Mill (continued) West Park Jewish phylacteries Museum & Art Beads Gallery Earrings Nubian silver head-dress Rings with silver chains (continued) Amuletic figures Scarabs Cloth head-dress with Shabti figures silver chains & coins Soul houses Wood boat Silver head-dress from Wood coffin fragment Nablus Painted shabti box Painted wood figurine of Children’s anklets Ptah-Seker-Osiris Canopic jars Palettes Bronze figures Queen Tiye Isis Osiris Cat representing Bast

The Collected Collections Page 23 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Manchester Jewish Museum *† Manchester Transport Museum - , Manchester

The Collected Collections Page 24 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Manx National Manx Museum - Heritage *† Castle Rushen Mesolithic Laxey Wheel & Neolithic Lead Mines Bronze age Manx Museum Iron age Peel Castle & Norse period House of Manx crosses Manannan Medieval St Mary's Chapel, Post medieval the Old Grammar Underwater & coastal School - Excavation archives Castletown Museum of Science & Loose artefacts relating to Industry *† - Manchester Liverpool Road Station 200 Museum of the King's Ethnography 30 Own Royal Regiment *† - Lancaster Nantwich Museum Pottery Mrs Saint’s collection Axe from Rhodes Roman burial urn Medieval stylus

The Collected Collections Page 25 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items National Museum of Labour History † - Manchester Pump House National Museums & British antiquities - local 25,000 Egyptian antiquities 15,000 Central & S America Galleries on British antiquities - 6,000 Pre-Columbian 3,000 Merseyside *† national 20,000 Ethnography 500 Liverpool Near Eastern 650 N America 1,000 Museum Cyprus 5,000 Oceania 6,000 Walker Art Classical 10,000 Islamic 2,000 Gallery Archaeology archive Tibetan 2,000 Lady Lever Art Indian 2,000 Gallery Chinese 2,750 Sudley House Japan 2,750 Oratory S E Asia & island Asia 2,000 Maritime Africa 9,000 Museum Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Museum Norton Priory Historical & excavation Museum *† material & archives re Norton Priory 30,000

The Collected Collections Page 26 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Museums Local flint tools (50% Small collection see Oldham Museum provenanced) Archaeology Oldham Art Mesolithic Gallery Neolithic

Egyptian Greek

Roman - Ammon Wrigley dig (1897) Pottery Metalware Glass Castleshaw excavation inc. Items Field documentation 3,000+ Penrith Museum *† Finds mainly local, some 500 foreign Peter Scott Gallery *† - Archaeology & Antiquities 78

The Collected Collections Page 27 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Queen's Lancashire Swords Regiment Museum *† - NIL NIL Spears Preston Shields Masks Drums 32 Ravenglass Railway Museum Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment & Kings Own Border Regiment - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Roman & pre Roman Museum Ceramic 8,500 Metal 270 Glass 330 Bone 2,000 Timber 60 Leather 10 Stone 100 Indusrial residue 300 Models 35 11,605

The Collected Collections Page 28 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Rochdale Museum & Flints Egyptology, pre- Art Gallery † Tools dynastic-Christian Rochdale Pioneers Museum *† Rossendale Museum *† Flint implements, 100 Oceania Mesolithic, Neolithic Africa Stone America Pottery, post-Roman & Asia medieval Ruskin Museum *† - Archaeology 15 Coniston Saddleworth Museum & Ammon Wrigley coll Art Gallery *† Fred Allen coll Castleshaw material 3,050

The Collected Collections Page 29 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Salford Museums & Art Local material, small Egyptian material Very small collection Galleries *† collection relating to Decorative Lancashire Arts Mining Museum Prehistoric, small representative collection Museum British Salford Museum European & Art Gallery Roman, inc. Mithraic stones from Manchester

Medieval & post-medieval inc. Ordsall Hall excavations

Greek inc. reproductions of finds at Mycenae

The Collected Collections Page 30 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Sefton Museums *† Botanic Gardens Museum Bootle Free Museum & Atkinson Art Art Gallery Gallery - Archaeology inc. Southport Dug out canoe Goodison collection of Bootle Free egyptology Museum & Art Bootle Free Museum & Gallery Art Gallery Collections (museum closed) Local archaeology Botanic Gardens Museum - Southport Senhouse Roman Roman Museum Stone Inscriptions Bronzes South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre † - Leyland St. Helens Museum & Local mainly 2,059 Egyptology 783 Art Gallery *†

The Collected Collections Page 31 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Stockport Heritage Prehistoric Egyptology Weapons Services *† Roman Currency Stockport Medieval Museum Post-medieval Market Place excavations Lyme Hall Stockport Art Gallery Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel

The Collected Collections Page 32 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Tameside Museum Service Astley Cheetham Art Gallery - Stalybridge Museum of the † - Ashton-u-Lyne Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays Towneley Hall Art Flints, local Alabaster Africa Gallery & Museums *† - Ceramics, local Wood India 1,200 Ceramics N America Towneley Hall Model boat S America Museum of Local Mummy 475 Crafts & Mummy cases x 2 Industries 415 Natural History Centre & Aquarium

The Collected Collections Page 33 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry The The Manchester The Manchester Museum Jodrell Bank Museum Science Centre Stone implements 13,000 Africa 6,200 Tabley House Other stone objects 200 Organic material 1,960 Oceania 4,000 The Manchester Metalwork 2,500 Metalwork 1,400 Indonesia 300 Museum Human bone 300 Stone objects 3,700 Asia 2,250 Whitworth Art Animal bone 200 Human bone 250 Americas 2,500 Gallery Other organic material 100 Animal bone 100 Europe 130 Jewellery, carved gems 250 Pottery 6,000 15,380 Roman glass 500 Glass 500 Inscribed clay tablets 250 Linen/cloth 150 Pottery lamps 1000 14,060 see Costume & Textiles Terracota figurines 400

The Collected Collections Page 34 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items University of Manchester The Manchester Museum Jodrell Bank (continued) Science Centre Tabley House Other pottery The Manchester W Asiatic 5,000 Museum Cyprus 500 Whitworth Art Greek 1,200 Gallery Italy & Roman 1000 Roman & post- Roman Britain 15,000 Prehistoric Europe 250 Medieval Europe 400 42,050

The Collected Collections Page 35 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Museum & Prehistoric to medieval Egyptology (inc in Africa Art Gallery *† esp Archaeolo America Stone age gy total) Australasia from old counties 490 India of Lancashire & Far East Cheshire 2,800 Bronze age from old counties of Lancashire & Cheshire Roman from Wilderspool, Warrington & elswhere Medieval from the friary 23,800 Weaver's Triangle Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 36 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Wigan Heritage Service British Egyptology (inc in Africa Wigan Pier Neolithic Archaeolo Asia Heritage Centre Romano-British gy total) N America Hindley Museum Medieval Pacific Powell Gallery Greek Europe Trencherfield Roman 150 Mill African prehistory History Shop 300 (inc Egyptolo gy ) Windermere Steamboat Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 37 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Archaeology/ No of Egyptology No of Ethnography No of Antiquities Items Items Items Wirral Museum & Art Local inc Ethnography Gallery Services - Roman Birkenhead Medieval Williamson Art National & international Gallery & inc Museum Prehistoric Birkenhead Roman Priory Pre-Columbian St Mary's Tower Shore Road Pumping Station Woodside Visitor Centre

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What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Natural History

Geology

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NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Natural History & Geology *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Allerdale Borough Museums Helena Thompson Museum Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Helena Thompson Collection of cased specimens Geology Museum † - Workington 3,000 Keswick Museum & Art Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Gallery *† Natural History 24,500 Maryport Maritime Museum † Armitt Trust Museum & Library *† Botanical specimens 650 Mainly the Ruskin Collection see Nat - Ambleside (this fig Hist fig includes geology) Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Museums Birds Rocks Service *† Mammals Fossils Dock Museum Birds eggs Minerals Shells (fresh & marine) 1,500 Insects (esp butterflies) Sub fossil remains Coral

The Collected Collections Page 40 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Beacon, The *† - Whitehaven Herbarium Mainly local minerals Birds eggs (unprovenanced) Birds 120 Plan to dispose of collection Blackburn Museum & Art Currently under review for transfer to Currently under review for transfer to Gallery *† other specialist Natural History other specialist Geology collections in the Lewis Textile Museum collections in the North West - for further North West - for further details contact the details contact the museum museum Mounted mammals Mounted birds Fossils Mounted fish Minerals Skins - mammal Mining core - 30 metres from Darwen in Skins - birds 1970s Bird eggs Articulated skeletons C19 picture of rock samples by White Skulls Watson Shells Corals Whitaker Park Group - Coleoptera 20 metres of rock & shell specimens Lepidoptera Botanical specimen sheets Most insects from Arthur Bowdler collection

The Collected Collections Page 41 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Boat Museum *† - Ellesmere Port Bolton Museums & Art Gallery *† Algae 2,500 Fossils 15,000 Central Museum, AG & Fungi 5,000 Minerals 6,000 Aquarium Bryophytes 7,000 Rocks 3,000 Hall i'th' Wood Lichens 5,000 Models Smithills Hall Vascular Plants 35,000 Local History Museum Economic Botany (closed-colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Mammals 500 Museum (closed-colls in Birds store '93) Reptiles & amphibia Fish Skeletal Birds eggs

Lepidoptera Coleoptera Diptera Hymenoptera Hemiptera Neuroptera

The Collected Collections Page 42 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Bolton Museums & Art Gallery *† (continued) Central Museum, AG & Aquarium Odonata, Trichoptera,) Hall i'th' Wood Plecoptera, ) Smithills Hall Ephemeroptera, ) Local History Museum Megaloptera ) 800 (closed-colls in store '93) Siphonaptera 60 Tonge Moor Textile Other insects Museum Other invertebrates (closed-colls in store '93) Galls 700

(continued) Entire collection 250,000 to 350,000

The Collected Collections Page 43 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Bury Art Gallery and Museum Taxidermy mounts 350 Rocks 100 Vertebrate skins Minerals 500 Osteological specimens 8 Fossils 100 Oological specimens 630 Other geological Entomological specimens 4,000 Archival material Molluscan specimens 320 700 Other invertebrates (dried) 40 Spirit preserved specimens Microscope slides Herbaria 180 Other botanical specimens 102 Biological models Archival material 5,630

Carlisle City Museums Mounted British birds inc. collections by Minerals, large & important inc Guildhall Museum H A Macpherson collections by Tullie House Museum & Art J W Harris J D Ingham Gallery Sir Richard Courtnay Musgrave’s Brian Young Edenhall collection Local 2,000 1,500 British Foreign 1,000

The Collected Collections Page 44 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art British bird skins inc. collections by 2,500 Fossils inc. ‘type’ & ‘figured’ material of Gallery E B Dunlop national & international importance. Inc M Garnett collections by (continued) D Losh Thorpe Prof. Robert Harkness Alexander Colvin British bird’s eggs, strong local, inc. Lady Mabel Howard collections by M H Donald T L Johnstone Jane Longstaff (née Donald) Pearson Douglas 6,000 Ernest Blezard Failed clutch of Lakeland Golden Eagles clutches 3,500 British bird’s nests, small collection 100

The Collected Collections Page 45 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Osteology, mainly British 100 Rock, comprehensive range, British & Gallery Birds foreign, good local material Mammals Igneous (continued) Metamorphic Extinct local mammals inc. Auroch (wild Sedimentary ox) horns Collections by Harkness Fish, mounted or in alcohol M H Donald Local freshwater Clifton Ward Marine F H Day (jnr) Vertebrate material in spirit, mainly local R S O Sheffield collections amphibians & reptiles 1,000

Entomology, covers most British insect 100,000 10,000 orders. Majority from collections by Geological Sites database for Cumbria G B Routledge area J Murray F H Day

The Collected Collections Page 46 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Mollusca(c.50% local), collections by Gallery E & D Blezard (local terrestrial & aquatic) (continued) M Garnett (local marine) J Donald (local terrestrial & aquatic) F Fisher (British & worldwide) 2,000

The Collected Collections Page 47 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Botany Gallery Herbaria, 300 individual collections inc. Stevens Lakeland collection (continued) G Adair J Curwen E Glaister T S Johnstone Bishop Goodenough T C Heysham C W Muirhead D A Ratcliffe 21,000

129,800 Biological Records database for the area Catalyst *† - Widnes (On Loan) 10 Geology 25 Cheshire Military Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 48 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Cheshire Museums *† - Museum Services Unit Salt Museum † Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Service *† Botany 2,000 Rocks 500 Grosvenor Museum Birds 300 Minerals 700 Heritage Centre Mammals 70 Fossils 2,500 King Charles Tower Skins 40 Water Tower Bones 70 Bird eggs 300 Reptiles ) Amphibia ) 12 Spirit specimens 65

Invertebrates - esp Mollusca 6,500 Lepidoptera) Coleoptera ) 19,000 Database (filing cabinet drawers) 3 Chorley Arts & Museums Service † Astley Hall Museum & AG

The Collected Collections Page 49 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items City of Liverpool Specimens for display or education, Croxteth Hall & Country interpreting the Park's wildlife Park *† Cumbria Police Museum *† - Penthrith Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum of Primitive Methodism *† - Crewe Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The *† - Bury Police Museum *† - Manchester Grundy Art Gallery † - Blackpool Harris Museum & Art Gallery *† - Preston Haworth Art Gallery - Accrington Heritage Trust for the North West see Social History (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum *† - Milnthorpe

The Collected Collections Page 50 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & Kendal Museum of Natural History & Kendal Museum of Natural History & Museum Trust *† Archaeology - Archaeology - Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal Natural History Geological collections Kendal Museum of Natural Local History & Archaeology Non-local 1,000 Museum of Lakeland Life & Represent various collections inc. Industry - Kendal Dr Parker (Bird collection) Col E Harrison (Big-game collection) 1,300 Lancashire County Museum Does not collect Botany Lancashire Service † Stratigraphy Judges' Lodgings † - Zoology Palaeontology Lancaster Local fauna - display only Petrology † Colls of Lancs material by Lancs Mineralogy County & Regimental zoologists Museum - Preston Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 51 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Lancaster City Museums *† Lancaster Museum*† Lancaster Maritime Items & Collections 20+ Collections <20 Museum *† Cottage Museum Roman Bath House St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Town Hall Collections Littleborough Museum Fossils, local Flint nodule, Grimes Graves

The Collected Collections Page 52 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Macclesfield Museums Trust † West Park Museum & Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill Collection of birds’ eggs West Park Museum & Art Gallery Stuffed panda (purported to be the first shot by an Englishman)

Duck billed platypi (on permanent loan to Manchester Museum)

Silk Museum -

Birds’ eggs Silk moths Cocoons Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 53 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Manchester Transport Museum - Heaton Park, Manchester Manx National Heritage *† Manx Museum - Manx Museum - Castle Rushen Laxey Wheel & Lead Mines Botany Rocks (inc. bore cores) Manx Museum Plants - Flowering Minerals Peel Castle & House of Plants - non flowering Fossils Manannan Mammals St Mary's Chapel, the Old Birds Grammar School - Invertebrates Castletown Molluscs - Marine - Non-marine Lepidoptera Museum of Science & Industry *† - Manchester Museum of the King's Own Royal Natural History 1 Regiment *† - Lancaster Nantwich Museum National Museum of Labour History † - Manchester Pump House

The Collected Collections Page 54 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items National Museums & Galleries on Botany Palaeontology 20,000 Merseyside *† Algae 12,000 Rocks 6,400 Liverpool Museum Phanerogams - Minerals & gems 12,000 Walker Art Gallery British 95,000 Teaching collection 2,500 Lady Lever Art Gallery Irish 95,000 Glass slides 4,000 Sudley House Ferns 11,000 Site recording 500 Oratory Fungi 1,500 Maritime Museum Gymnosperms 1,000 Museum of Liverpool Life Lichens 4,500 HM Customs & Excise Mosses & liverworts 22,000 Museum Angiosperms - extra Euro 31,000 Angiosperms - cultivated 11,000 (continued) Research coll 10,000 Chemicals 200 Economic botany 3,100 Plant models 300 Seeds 1,000 Timbers 10,000 Exsiccatae 5 sets Archive collections 1,000 Library 3,000

The Collected Collections Page 55 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items National Museums & Galleries on Zoology Merseyside*† Bird & mammal 52,000 Liverpool Museum Bird eggs 15,000 Walker Art Gallery Osteology 3,600 Lady Lever Art Gallery Amphibia & reptiles 2,500 Sudley House Fish 1,500 Oratory Vertebrates, mounted & modelled 500 Maritime Museum Vertebrate tissue 20 Museum of Liverpool Life Entomology 700,000 HM Customs & Excise Conchology 20,000 Museum Marine invertebrates 3,000 Library & archive several (continued) hundred Norton Priory Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 56 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Oldham Museums Substantial collections with much of ‘Important collection with many Oldham Museum local origin inc. specimens of high value & great interest Oldham Art Gallery to geologists’ Vertebrate collection inc. Birds of 250 British species 700 British fossils Baron collection (eggs, fully documented, 1900-30) 5,000+ Lower Cambrian to Pleistocene

Invertebrate collection inc. Carboniferous fossils, by phyla & nationally important collections of class

Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies), World minerals, representative collection fully documented, 1850-1980 100 drawers & Local rocks, small collection 50 boxes Coleoptera (beetles) 2,000+

Diptera (flies)

Conchology (shells) inc. Taylor 2,400 British Land & Freshwater boxes Mollusc Collection, & foreign molluscs

The Collected Collections Page 57 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Oldham Museums Oldham Microscopical Society’s Oldham Museum herbarium (custodial responsibility) Oldham Art Gallery Library re collection + 2,000 reference (continued) books, identification keys & scientific journals, some from C18

Biological records

Records of species occurrence in Borough (date back to mid C19) 40,000

Increasingly active repository for current natural history information

Amphibian survey 1992/93

Butterfly Watch survey 1990/91

Oldham Phase One & Two Habitat Survey - maps & information 70,000+

The Collected Collections Page 58 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Penrith Museum *† Entomology 800 Fossils 1,000 Rocks 225 Minerals 475 Peter Scott Gallery *† - Lancaster University Quarry Bank Mill Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum *† - Preston Ravenglass Railway Museum Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment & Kings Own Border Regiment - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Museum Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery † Birds Geological specimens Mammals Fossils Herbarium Shells Rochdale Pioneers Museum *† Rossendale Museum *† Birds 400 Bird eggs 700 Mammals, fish & reptiles 100 Insects 100 Seaweed 1,600

The Collected Collections Page 59 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Ruskin Museum *† - Coniston Plant casts 15 Minerals 200 Saddleworth Museum & Art Bird eggs 250 Minerals Gallery *† Fossils 440 Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† Animal groups under glass domes, small Coal mining related specimens Lancashire Mining Museum collection Ordsall Hall Museum Salford Museum & Art Gallery

The Collected Collections Page 60 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Sefton Museums *† Botanic Gardens Museum Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Natural History, substantial collection Geology inc. Bootle Free Museum & Art inc. Storeton slabs Gallery Collections (museum closed) Local Botanic Gardens Museum - Flora Southport Fauna Birds Lepidoptera Hymenoptera Coleoptera Local/national Conchology Paintings

Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery

Local natural history Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre † - Leyland St. Helens Museum & Art Gallery *†

The Collected Collections Page 61 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Stockport Heritage Services *† Herbaria Rocks 2,000 Stockport Museum Cryptogramic plants 1,500 Minerals Bramall Hall Flowering plants 900 Lyme Hall Birds 350 Stockport Art Gallery Bird eggs 700 Hatting Museum Mammals Stockport Air Raid Shelters Lepidoptera 24,000 Chadkirk Chapel Insects misc 500 Shells 8,000 Beetles 2,000 40,000 Tameside Museum Service Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Museum of the Manchesters † Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 62 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Zoology Rocks see Nat Museums *† - Burnley Birds Fossils History Towneley Hall Bird eggs Minerals Museum of Local Crafts & Mammals Industries Entomology Natural History Centre & Botany Aquarium Herbarium specimens Wood sections

14,000 (inc Geology) University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

The Collected Collections Page 63 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items University of Manchester The Manchester Museum The Manchester Museum Jodrell Bank Science Centre Tabley House Botany Fossils 247,000 The Manchester Museum Flowering plants 1,800,000 Minerals 13,000 Whitworth Art Gallery Mosses 100,000 Rocks 5,000 Liverworts 35,000 265,000 (continued) Ferns 75,000 (Types Fungi 20,000 & Algae 20,000 figured Lichens 45,000 2,000) Diatom Slides 20,000 Palaeobotanical slides 10,000 Other - boxed seeds Pharmacy etc 70,000 2,125,00 (Types 5,000)

Entomology Beetles 1,400,00 Butterflies & moths 800,000 Others 800,000 3,000,00 (Types 11,000)

The Collected Collections Page 64 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items University of Manchester (continued) Jodrell Bank Science Centre Tabley House Zoology - Invertebrate & Vertebrate The Manchester Museum Mollusca 350,000 Whitworth Art Gallery Foraminifera slides 10,000 Bryozoa slides 13,000 (continued) Arachnida 50,000 Acari slides 4,000 Other invertebrates 5,000 Vertebrates 56,000 488,000 (Types 5,000)

The Collected Collections Page 65 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Warrington Museum & Art Botany 9,250 Geology 2,300 Gallery *† Zoology Palaeontology 4,400 Invertebrates 55,300 Vertebrates 4,300 6,700 The collections inc. gifts or bequests from The collections inc. gifts or bequests the following - from the following - T G Rylands - worldwide mineral William Wilson - herbaria of collection British plants & mosses G A Dunlop - fossil footprints on Linnaeus Greening - worldwide Triassic slabs collection of reptiles, amphibia & snakes; British & foreign spiders

Col J A Edelsten - British & foreign molluscs Weaver's Triangle Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 66 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Natural History No of Geology No of Items Items Wigan Heritage Service Plants Minerals Wigan Pier Heritage Centre Insects Rocks Hindley Museum Reptiles Fossils Powell Gallery Birds 1,000 Mammals History Shop Shells, marine 1,600 Windermere Steamboat Museum *† Wirral Museum & Art Gallery Natural science collection in poor Geological samples collected by Charles Services - Birkenhead condition, no significant specimens Chambres - large range Williamson Art Gallery & Museum Birkenhead Priory St Mary's Tower Shore Road Pumping Station Woodside Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 67 September 1998

What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Fine Art

Decorative Art

Costume & Textiles

The Collected Collections Page 68 September 1998

NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Fine Art, Decorative Art & Costume & Textiles

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Allerdale Borough Helena Thompson Helena Thompson Helena Thompson Museums Museum - Museum - Museum - Helena Thompson Paintings, mainly local - Ceramics-representative Costume - gen. late C18 Museum †- topographical, people or collections of styles & to c.1910 Workington Helena Thompson’s family materials Keswick Museum and friends & Art Gallery *† Watercolours Silver Maryport Oils Plated ware Maritime Prints 500 Museum † Glass Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Furniture Art (inc photos and prints)

The Collected Collections Page 69 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Armitt Trust Museum & Watercolours (inc group of 500 Library *† - Ambleside 400 by Beatrix Potter) Prints 3 Pastels 1 Oil painting Works by John Harden T L Aspland Kurt Schwitters James Bourne John Flower Graham Hoggarth J C Ibbetson William Green 1,000 Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Oil WWII Uniform mainly Museums Service *† Watercolour Gen. Dock Museum Drawings Prints 150

The Collected Collections Page 70 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Beacon, The *† - Copeland Collection Whitehaven pottery C19 305 Substantial number - Whitehaven - mainly paintings 67 Beilby 'slave trade' glass future collecting to target goblet 1 local provenance Paintings - Souvenir ware c.100 243 Marine Local topographical Local worthies 721 Blackburn Museum & Paintings - C17 to date Hart Bequest Range c.1830 - 1945 Art Gallery *† Oil Books Clothes Lewis Textile Watercolour Manuscripts Men’s Museum 1,000+ Cuneiform Women’s Icons, Greek & Russian tablets Accessories Orthodox 30+ Egyptian papyri Hats Japanese woodcut prints Hebrew scrolls several Shoes (T B Lewis Bequest) 1,000+ thousand Fans Drawings in pen & ink by Ceramics Lace Herbert Railton 70+ C17 Chinese to C20 Re individuals Sketches & engravings by Pilkington Kathleen Ferrier John Sharples 500 Local dignitaries Posters - Bombay Talkies Busts in , plaster Early local movies 300 & bronze 20 footballers Photographs by Elizabeth Ashworth c.100

The Collected Collections Page 71 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Blackburn Museum & Ivory Handloom weaver’s Art Gallery *† Statuettes pattern books Lewis Textile Miniature scenes less than Museum Netsuke/inro 100 1950s printed cloths

(continued) Sculpture Jacquard samples from Metalwork local named mills Silver & gilt less than replicas 10 Trophy cups over 100 Silver & silver- less than plated tableware 50

Furniture Boat Museum *† - Paintings 30 Painted ware 200 Textiles 160 Ellesmere Port see Transport History see Transport History

The Collected Collections Page 72 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Bolton Museums & Art Paintings oil & other 300 Ceramics 700 Costume esp dresses Gallery *† Watercolours & drawings 800 Glass 180 Shoes Central Museum, Prints 800 Metalwork - Hats AG & Aquarium Mass Observation art 210 Textiles - Underwear Hall i'th' Wood Sculpture 50 Japanese Dec Art 100 Police uniform Smithills Hall 2,160 Dolls 45 Regimental Local History Furniture - 1,000 Museum (closed- colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum (closed-colls in store '93) Bury Art Gallery and Wrigley collection esp. 970 Metalware Local items 80 Museum British Victorian artists Silver e.g. Warwick vase inc. (copy) by Paul Storr Turner Silver freedom chests Constable Ceramics Landseer Wedgwood Linnell Royal Lancastrian Cox

The Collected Collections Page 73 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Bury Art Gallery and (continued) (continued) Museum Works by artists of Lustreware, early C20 (continued) national importance inc. Earthenware jugs, early Clausen C19 Pasmore Glassware Lady Butler Furniture 80 Lowry Edward Burra Local artists inc. Haigh Wood James Shaw Contemporary art inc. Patrick Hughes Patrick Procktor Peter Wortel Toon Wegner

The Collected Collections Page 74 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums Pictures, C17 to date, Porcelain inc R H Costume, 1750 to date Guildhall mainly C19 & C20 Williamson Bequest Women’s esp. Museum Prints Chelsea Formal Tullie House Drawings Derby Wedding dresses Museum & Art Sketch-books Bow 1770-1979 Gallery Watercolours Worcester Underwear Easel paintings Longton Hall Footwear 2,500 Spode Hats Works by local artists inc. Bristol Fans Matthias Read Nantgarw Bags R Carlyle Swansea Purses M E Nutter Rockingham Shawls W H Nutter New Hall Men’s W J Blacklock Staffordshire Children’s Sam Bough Battersea 1,500 George Sheffield enamels Accessories 600 Snr & Jnr) 1,000

The Collected Collections Page 75 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) (continued) (continued) Guildhall Museum Emily & Gordon British studio ceramics Textiles Tullie House Bottomley bequest, key Martinware Quilts early C19- Museum & Art artists inc Domestic pottery& 1930 26 Gallery Samuel Palmer porcelain Samplers 1700- William Etty end C19 40 (continued) Frederic, Lord Furniture, small but inc. Crewel work Leighton Arts & Crafts 20 Whitework Albert Joseph items by Arthur Berlin wool work Moore Simpson of Bead-work Dante Gabriel Kendal Crochet Rossetti 4 important Lace Elizabeth Siddal display cabinets Knitting Arthur Hughes Art embroidery Ford Madox Musical instruments, Rag rugs Brown few but good Local printed & Burne-Jones Local wind & stringed woven fabrics by William Morris Cello, viola & violin by Mortons & Charles Ricketts Forster family Fergusons of Charles Hazlewood Violin by Amati Carlisle Shannon (inc.samples by C Paul Nash 100 F A Voysey & William Morris)

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 76 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) (continued) (continued) Guildhall Museum Purchase Scheme 1933- Misc (clocks,etc) Contemporary textiles Tullie House 1975 inc works by Long case 5 by Willy Museum & Art John Nash Pocket watches 90 Jeffries 1 Gallery Augustus John 200 Embroideries by Wyndham Lewis Metalwork Angela Lee 2 (continued) Vanessa Bell Domestic silver Knitted hanging Harold Gilman Domestic pewter by Astrid Furnival 1 William Gillies some Keswick Felts by Jenny William School Cowern Rothenstein Jewellery, small Felts by Sally Stanley Spencer collection, C19 & early Thompson Carel Weight C20 L S Lowry Glass, small collection John Bratby Peter Blake

The Collected Collections Page 77 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) Guildhall Photography, inc. works Museum by Tullie House Fay Godwin Museum & Art Andy Goldsworthy Gallery Ray Moore John Davies (continued) Paul Joyce Ed Ranney 60 Sculpture inc works by David Dunbar Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson Lorna Graves David Kemp 25 Catalyst *† - Widnes Fine Art 10 Costume & Textiles 25 Cheshire Military See Military History See Military History Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 78 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Cheshire Museums *† - Topographic Small collection Regalia C19 Museum Services Portraiture Racing silks Unit Misc Salt Museum † approx 70 Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Oil paintings 75 Silver 142 Costume 2,000 Service *† Tempera 2 Silver-plate 16 Grosvenor Watercolours 244 Pewter 5 Museum Drawings 290 Furniture 99 Heritage Centre Prints 613 Ceramics 650 King Charles Sculpture 17 Glass 52 Tower Clocks & watches 99 Water Tower Architectural models Chorley Arts & Paintings 120 Ceramics 250 Textiles Museums Service † Engravings 110 Glass Clothing Astley Hall Mus & AG Prints 87 Furniture War art City of Liverpool Items relating to the Hall 120 Items relating to the Hall 200 Items relating to the Hall 400 Croxteth Hall & Approx Approx Approx Country Park *† Cumbria Police Plaques Police Uniform Museum *† - Penrith Cups 25 7 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned

The Collected Collections Page 79 September 1998 Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & Portraits Wordsworth Museum Paintings & drawings of Wordsworth family Coleridge De Quincey Southey Lamb Lady Beaumont William Havell William Green Artists represented inc. Sir Joshua Reynolds Haydon James Northcote David Wilkie Henry William Pickersgill Henry Edridge Samuel Lawrence Adam Buck William Bewick John Downman James Archer James Gilray

The Collected Collections Page 80 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & (continued) Wordsworth Museum Lake District themes (continued) (landscape, cultural & working life) Paintings, drawings & prints Artist represented inc. Constable Girtin Gainsbrough Towne Dayws Farington ‘Warwick’ Smith William Green Sunderland Joseph Wright of Derby Royal Academy evacuees (1940s) William Bellers Joseph Wilkinson

The Collected Collections Page 81 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & Artist represented inc. Wordsworth Museum (continued) Green (continued) Farington Smith C20 - Malcolm Osborne Percy Horton Robert Austin Delmar Banner Josephine De Vasconcelles

Photographs Portraits of Wordsworth families Landscapes Photographers represented inc. James Mudd Walmsley Brothers of Ambleside Abrahams of Keswick David Lyons

The Collected Collections Page 82 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Englesea Brook Chapel Portraits (Oils) 5 Banners 3 & Museum of Primitive Methodism *† - Crewe Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The *† - Bury Greater Manchester Police Uniform ? Police Museum *† - Banner 1 Manchester Grundy Art Gallery † - Victorian Art Bronzes C19 & 20 Blackpool Early modern British Ivory wares (C19) Ceramics, oriental French realism (C19/20) Purses Watercolours, Marble sculpture topographical (C19/20) Furniture War art WW I & II Modern prints

The Collected Collections Page 83 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Harris Museum & Art Oil Paintings 750 Ceramics 2,100 Costume 6,000 Gallery *† - Preston Watercolours ) Glass 750 Textiles 600 Drawings ) 1,620 Enamels 53 Fashion plates & 2,000 Prints 4,500 Scent bottles 2,750 magazines 8,600 Sculpture 105 Visiting card cases 994 Books 100 Decorative minerals 900 7075 Gaming counters 2,900 Clocks/watches 50 Metalwork 100 Oriental 100 10,697 Haworth Art Gallery - Haworth Bequest Haworth Bequest Accrington Oil paintings 21 Porcelain Watercolour drawings 26 Ivory Photographs 3 16 Joseph Briggs gift of Carnegie collection inc. Tiffany Glass 146 ‘Storm on the French Coast’ by Claude J Vernet Contemporary glass 64 Contemporary ceramics Mrs Nuttall’s Bequest Ceramics Oil paintings Oriental Watercolours European

The Collected Collections Page 84 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Haworth Art Gallery - (continued) (continued) Accrington Mrs Nuttall’s Bequest Sculpture (continued) Oil paintings Metalwork Watercolours Furniture Watercolours C18 & C19 28 inc. Genre Landscape Marine Oil painting C19 / C20 inc. Genre Landscapes Portraits Artist represented inc. Richard Wilson Benjamin Williams Leader George Chinnery Frederic, Lord Leighton Prints C19 British Continental

The Collected Collections Page 85 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Heritage Trust for the see Social History North West † (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum *† - Milnthorpe Lake District Art Gallery Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Costume C17 - mid C20 & Museum Trust *† Local made or worn inc. Abbot Hall Art Esp. strong in - Jewellery/Vertu 468 Accessories Gallery - Kendal George Romney 1734- Funishings inc. Jewellery Kendal Museum 1802 Furniture by Gillows of 4,400 of Natural C18 portraits Lancaster History & Tufton collection (portraits 345 Archaeology of Clifton family) Ceramics inc. Studio Museum of Topographical/picturesque Pottery Lakeland Life & views of Lake District St Ives School Industry - Kendal Watercolours by John Kurt Schwitters Ruskin 1887-1948 (inc. C20 British painting 11 works of nat. W G C Collingwood signif. such as Eric Sharpe ‘Flight’1946, Stanley Davies ‘Mier Oliver Morel Bitte’1946, Romney Greene

The Collected Collections Page 86 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Lake District Art Gallery (continued) (continued) & Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Collection inc. the 11 works of nat. signif. Gallery - Kendal following important (continued) Kendal Museum works- ‘Ambleside of Natural ‘The Great Picture’ - attr J YMCA Flag’ History & V Belcamp (c.1650) 1946, ‘Sculpture Archaeology ‘Crowned Head the on a Bone’1946 Museum of Queen’ - Ben Nicholson 863 Lakeland Life & (1932) Musical instruments 3 Industry - Kendal ‘The Gower Family’ - Other 629 G Romney (1776-77) (continued) ‘The Passage of the St Museum of Lakeland Gothard from Teufels Life & Industry - Bruke’ - J M W Turner(1804) Arts & Craft movement ‘Belle Isle Windermere in in Cumbria inc. a Calm and in a Storm’ - P Langdale/Ruskin J de Loutherbourg lace Linen Industry Collection breakdown 2,172 Annie Garnett & Watercolours 528 the Spinnery Paintings 394 Ann Macbeth Drawings 1,253 Prints 75 Sculpture

The Collected Collections Page 87 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Lake District Art Gallery (continued) & Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Arts & Craft movement Gallery - Kendal in Cumbria inc Kendal Museum Keswick School of Natural of Industrial Art History & The Simpsons of Archaeology Kendal Museum of Material re Lakeland Life & C F A Voysey Industry - Kendal Baillie Scott etc. (continued)

The Collected Collections Page 88 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Lancashire County Lancs topography, people, Lancs origin/provenance Museum Service † events, artists - Ceramics Judges' Paintings Glass Lodgings † - Drawings Furniture Lancaster Sculpture Metalwork Fleetwood Contemp craft Museum † (toys, wood, County & textiles) Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower †- Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 89 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Lancaster City Oil paintings 319 Furniture +30 Costume +200 Museums *† Watercolours) Ceramics 750 Accessories 400 Lancaster Drawings ) 434 Glass 400 Maritime Museum *† Prints 600 Ornaments Costume 12 Lancaster Maritime art 280 Jade Accessories 10 Maritime Maritime Museum *† Furniture 1 Cottage Museum Ceramics 30 Roman Bath Glass 6 House Ornaments 6 St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Town Hall Collections Littleborough Museum Ceramics Nightgowns C19 Local chapels Wedding dress 1930 Font Suit Ornaments School uniform Oddfellows regalia Local military uniform

The Collected Collections Page 90 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums West Park Museum & Art West Park Museum & West Park Museum & Trust † Gallery - Art Gallery - Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Sculpture Pair of lacquer cases Textiles Paradise Mill Marble busts 5 Bronze incense burners Waistcoats late West Park Plaster casts 7 Christening cup C18 early C19 Museum & Art Carved ivory Chinese Parasols Gallery Paintings figures Shawls Oils inc. Silver gilt freedom Honiton wedding George Cole - ‘Hindhead, casket veil Surrey’ Ivory fans Silk squares H Calvert - ‘Gentleman on Rams horn with pewter Pattern book Horseback’ snuff mill Deputy Lieutenant H Calvert - ‘Marianne Model glass ship uniform & Brocklehurst on Model lifeboat trousers, hat & Horseback’ Set of 6 Macclesfield plume C Tunnicliffe - chairs ‘Macclesfield Market Norwegian woodcarving Place’ Pewter church plate E Landseer - ‘Interior of Chinese of Highland Byre’ 50 carved bone

The Collected Collections Page 91 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums (continued) (continued) (continued) Trust † Macclesfield Silk Watercolours inc. George III long case Silk Museum - Museum J Hayllor - ‘The Tame clock Costume Paradise Mill Jackdaw’ Verge watches West Park H Goodwin - ‘Twilight Victorian walnut display ICOM Museum & Art from Monte San cabinet W1.10 Dresses, mainly Gallery Salvadore’ Commemorative china Victorian 100 John Sherrin - ‘Two mugs & plates 1.20 Bodice/blouses 60 (continued) Rabbits at a Burrow’ Replica of section of 2.10 Shawls 60 Hardy - ‘In the Highlands’ 60 Bayeux Tapestry 2.30 Capes/jackets 40 C Tunnicliffe - ‘The Brocklehurst Whiston 3.40 Aprons 20 Blackberry Pickers’ silk woven pictures 4.10 Underclothes/ Silk commemorative nightwear 100 Chinese paintings on rice ribbons 7.43 Scarves 400 paper Tapestry 8.70 Parasols 25 Embroidered Japanese 8.9 Handkerchiefs 300 2 volumes of watercolour wall hanging sketches by Marianne Woven Japanese wall M1.22 Men’s waistcoats 20 Brocklehurst on her travels hanging M7.41 Cravats 30 7.42 Ties 400

The Collected Collections Page 92 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums (continued) (continued) Trust † Macclesfield Silk Prints & Drawings inc. Large fabric samples Museum Etchings Samples from Cartwright Paradise Mill Pen & ink & Sheldon 1912-1981 100 West Park Prints (500 early Accessories inc. Museum & Art works by C F Gloves Gallery Tunnicliffe) Hats Local artists Shoes (continued) Local scenes Purses C19 prints Hat pins C20 prints Hair crimpers Fans Silk Museum - Children’s, small collection mainly Paintings Christening robes Local scenes by local Babies’ artists (small selection) nightdresses

The Collected Collections Page 93 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Manchester City Art Paintings 1,852 Antiquities 800 Costume 14,757 Galleries *† Sculpture 299 Arms & armour 275 Textiles 2,423 Athenaeum Prints & Photographs 5,679 Bygones 1,058 Dolls & dolls’ clothing 376 City Art Gallery Drawings & Watercolours 3,679 Ceramics 3,200 Objects of personal use & 4,019 Fletcher Moss Rutherstone Loans 1,101 Clocks & scientific 104 adornment Heaton Hall Community Loans 135 instruments 2,081 21,575 Platt Hall 12,745 Coins 758 (correct to Queen's Park Art (correct Dolls houses 493 end of Gallery to end of Enamels 352 1995) Wythenshawe 1995) Furniture 965 Hall Glass 132 Japanese prints 933 Metalwork 874 Oriental collections 398 Wallpaper 12,427 (correct to end of 1995 ) Manchester Jewish Paintings Metalwork Textiles Museum *† Drawings e.g.candlesticks Religious Ceramics Household Costume

The Collected Collections Page 94 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Manchester Transport Museum - Heaton Park, Manchester Manx National Manx Museum - Manx Museum - Manx Museum Heritage *† Castle Rushen Easel paintings Ceramics Costume Laxey Wheel & Watercolours Glass Furnishings Lead Mines Drawings Manx Museum Sculpture Peel Castle & Framed House of 900 Manannan Un- St Mary's Chapel, framed the Old Grammar 100 School - Castletown Museum of Science & Framed works of art 29 Ceramics 100 Textile samples Industry *† - Manchester Sample books Uniforms Flat textiles 150

The Collected Collections Page 95 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Museum of the King's Fine art 20 Decorative art 50 Uniform Own Royal Regiment *† - Textiles Lancaster 300 Nantwich Museum Watercolours Costume - see Social Drawings History Prints Oil paintings National Museum of Labour History † - Manchester Pump House

The Collected Collections Page 96 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items National Museums & Paintings Ceramics Textiles 5,000 Galleries on Italian & Liverpool 2,000 Costume 5,000 Merseyside *† Netherlands 1350- Other British 7,000 Liverpool 1550 180 Glass (vessel) 2,500 Museum Foreign 1550-1900 280 Stained glass 400 Walker Art British up to 1830 600 Metalwork Gallery British 1830-1900 800 Silver 1,300 Lady Lever Art British C20 700 Base metal 1,400 Gallery Sculpture 700 Jewellery 1,000 Sudley House Prints,drawings & Dolls & toys 400 Oratory photos 7,000 Musical instruments 120 Maritime Lady Lever Art Medieval ivories, Museum Gallery coll (inc woodcarving & alabaster 70 Museum of furniture, Furniture 300 Liverpool Life Wedgwood, Architectural fragments 100 HM Customs & Chinese porcelain Excise Museum & other dec art) 12,000

The Collected Collections Page 97 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items National Museums & (continued) (continued) Galleries on Merseyside *† Botanical prints & Horology Liverpool drawings 2,700 Clocks & Museum watches 850 Walker Art Tools, workshop Gallery equipment etc 20,000 Lady Lever Art See also Lady Lever Art Gallery Gallery coll under Fine Sudley House Art Oratory Maritime Museum Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Museum

(continued) Norton Priory Contemporary art 17 Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 98 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Oldham Museums Oil paintings ranging over Glass 150 Oldham Museum Pre-Raphaelite Oldham Art British Realism Ceramics Gallery Late Victorian C20 studio genre pottery 50+ Post war Commemorative Pop pottery Abstract Victorian 450 domestic wares Watercolour paintings inc. Figures Early English Topographical Oriental C20 Chinese pottery Japanese pottery Prints (mostly Francis Buckley contemporary, covering collection 1936- print as important medium 37 of export since 1960s) 700 wares Ivory figures Engravings Soapstone figures

The Collected Collections Page 99 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Oldham Museums (continued) (continued) Oldham Museum Oldham Art Photographic prints inc. Charles Lees Gallery North West Arts collection collection of of contemporary Oriental (continued) photography (on long term metalwork loan) 100 Newton Bequest of 1964 Drawings Silverware, small number Charles Lees collection of watercolour drawings & Electrotypes inc. engravings inc. works by Civic items Charles Lees 1,000 (1890s) Marjorie Lees (1952 & 1970)

Mixed media works

Sculptures

2,000+ Penrith Museum *† Paintings 35

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 100 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Peter Scott Gallery *† - Oil paintings ) Ceramics 160 Lancaster University Watercolours ) 237 Antiquities 24 Prints & Drawings 522 Chinese & Japanese paintings & prints 91 Quarry Bank Mill Queen's Lancashire Paintings Paintings Uniforms Regiment Museum *† - Oils Prints Personal clothing Preston Watercolours Porcelain Flags Silver Glass Banners 42 Medals Colours Accoutrements 475 347 Ravenglass Railway Museum Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment & Kings Own Border Regiment - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Museum

The Collected Collections Page 101 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Rochdale Museum & Paintings Applied art C20 costume Art Gallery † Drawings Accessories Prints John Bright collection Photos Gracie Fields collection Sculpture 1,800 Rochdale Pioneers Museum *† Rossendale Museum *† Easel & panel paintings Ceramics Costume esp female Watercolours Glass Accessories Prints Other decorative objects Textiles esp samplers Wallpapers Metalware Footwear Furniture Ruskin Museum *† - Watercolours by JR 100 Ruskin Pottery 6 Ruskin linen, lace, Coniston Prints after JR 200 Coniston School of samplers Ruskin family portraits 10 Carving 3 Costume Works by other artists 50 Knitting (recent gifts) 360 300 Saddleworth Museum & Edna Lumb works Ceramics mainly 70 Costume 1850-1960 esp Art Gallery *† Paintings of local 30 commemorative female 750 importance Accessories Military uniform Embroideries

The Collected Collections Page 102 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Salford Museums & Art L S Lowry British see Social History Galleries *† Pottery Lancashire C20 British Porcelain Mining Museum Painting Glass Ordsall Hall Drawing Royal Lancastrian Museum Pottery Salford Museum Victorian works Japanese & Art Gallery Pottery Local artists Porcelain Chinese Contemporary prints Pottery Porcelain Contemporary Painting Pre-Columbian South Drawing American pottery European see Industrial History Pottery Porcelain

Souvenir & commemorative wares

Ivory

Metalware

The Collected Collections Page 103 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Sefton Museums *† Atkinson Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery Botanic Gardens Museum Atkinson Art Gallery - British Chinese porcelain Victorian Southport Watercolours Silver Costume Bootle Free C18 Ceramics Costume accessories Museum & Art C19 Glassware Gallery Victorian Genre Georgian Collections works Botanic Gardens 1 complete dress c.1745 (museum closed) Turn of century Museum Botanic Gardens academic painting Bootle Free Museum & Museum - Contemporary Silverware Art Gallery Southport Paintings Watches Prints Precious gem stones Costume accessories Sculpture inc. works by Bootle Free Museum & Frank Brangwyn Art Gallery Walter Sickert Richard Andsell Bishop collection of T S Cooper Liverpool porcelain Sir Peter Lely (not Henry Moore including Lancaster collection of Local history Bootle figurines paintings material ) 2,700 Silverware

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 104 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Sefton Museums *† (continued) (continued) Atkinson Art Gallery - Bootle Free Museum & Glassware Southport Art Gallery Bootle Free Furniture Museum & Art Local history paintings Gallery Collections Some examples of larger (museum closed) schools of paintings inc. Botanic Gardens ‘Victoria Station’ by Museum - Charles Ginner Southport

(continued) Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Costume in 6 large boxes Exhibition Centre † - Leyland

The Collected Collections Page 105 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items St. Helens Museum & Paintings mainly English 438 Ceramics 280 Costume (approx) 70 Art Gallery *† Metalwork (approx) 30 Accessories (approx) 100 Art glass (approx) 200 Flat textiles (approx) 10 Sculpture Horology 36 Stockport Heritage Oils Ceramics Costume mainly women's Services *† Watercolours Glass & children's 'best' Stockport Prints Furniture Hats 220 Museum Photographs Bramall Hall Sculpture Lyme Hall Stockport Art Gallery Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel

The Collected Collections Page 106 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Tameside Museum Works by current/former Service residents of borough Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Topographical Museum of the Manchesters † Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 107 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Towneley Hall Art Oil paintings 308 Ceramics Victorian Gallery & Museums *† - Watercolours 280 Pilkington's Dresses Burnley Works on paper 1,104 Royal Accessories Towneley Hall Book illustrations 1880- 509 Lancastrian Working clothing Museum of Local 1920 49 Chinese Military uniforms Crafts & Sculpture Commemorative Kashmiri emroideries Industries Goss Household textiles Natural History Cliviger Rugs Centre & Contemporary Flags Aquarium Studio Glass English drinking glasses Furniture C17 oak Regency Gothic Backstairs items left in hall in 1903

The Collected Collections Page 108 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Towneley Hall Art (continued) Gallery & Museums *† - Burnley Ivories Netsuke (continued) Benin tusks Europe India Asia Africa N America Metalware Silver Trophies Cutlery Souvenir spoons Pewter Small items e.g. snuff boxes

The Collected Collections Page 109 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items University of Liverpool Paintings Ceramics 400 Art Gallery & Drawings Glass 60 Collections *† Prints Metalwork 400 Museum of Sculpture Textiles 20 Archaeology & 4,500 880 Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry University of Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery Jodrell Bank Science Centre Historic drawings & Wallpapers, C17 to Textiles Tabley House watercolours present, most from Roman period to present The Manchester Works pre-1880 1850s-1960s from throughout the Museum English watercolours Mainly UK world Whitworth Art (emphasis on landscape) production Collection inc. important Gallery C18 & C19 inc. works by French examples holdings from Turner Other European The Manchester Girtin USA production Museum Gainsborough UMIST Alexander Manchester John Robert Metropolitan University

The Collected Collections Page 110 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items University of Manchester (continued) (continued) (continued) Jodrell Bank Science Centre English watercolours British dress Tabley House (emphasis on landscape) Collection inc. exemplifying certain TheManchester C18 & C19 inc. works by C18 European techniques & styles Museum Cozens flocked canvas Whitworth Art Hearne wallhangings Ethnographic dress of all Gallery David Cox C18 & C19 types Pre-Raphaelite inc. by embossed leather Collection strong in (continued) Millais wallcoverings Post-pharaonic Rossetti textiles Holman Hunt Photographs Mediterranean Burne-Jones Ephemera embroideries Printing & other Arts & Crafts Old master drawings equipment period Handling C20 British French C19 & early C20 collection of C20 furnishing textiles drawings inc. samples Impressionists Post-impressionists

The Collected Collections Page 111 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items University of Manchester (continued) Jodrell Bank Science Centre Prints C15 to present inc. Tabley House British prints C17 The Manchester to present Museum Work by & after Whitworth Art William Hogarth Gallery Italian & northern Renaissance (continued) European C19 & C20 British wood- engravings, late C19 early C20 British artists’ books Printmaking tools & plates

The Collected Collections Page 112 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items University of Manchester (continued) Jodrell Bank Science Centre Modern Art inc. various Tabley House media - works on paper, The Manchester oils & sculpture Museum Late C19 European Whitworth Art inc. Gallery Cezanne Van Gogh (continued) Pissarro Picasso C20 British inc. Surrealist Pop 1930s/1940s landscape works

The Collected Collections Page 113 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Warrington Museum & Watercolours, mainly C19 570 Ceramics Costume, mainly early Art Gallery *† Oils, mainly C19 400 inc. Edelsten Bequest C19 to C20, middle class, Prints 500 British - female Others 330 C19 Pottery Baby clothes 1,800 C19 Porcelain Hats Collections inc. works by C18 wares Shoes the following - European - Accessories Luke Fildes RA C19 Porcelain Ceremonial Henry Woods RA Satsuma Ware Uniform James Charles 1,720 880 Hamlet Winstanley Glass see Decorative Art Oswald Garside mainly C19/C20 George Sheffield ordinary table ware by James Fitton local manufacturers Evelyn Buckton 1,720 Jan Van Os Furniture Frank Brangwyn inc. L J Gibson gift C17/C18 provincial Sculpture, mainly marble 62 chairs & long case statuary by John clocks Warrington Wood 110

The Collected Collections Page 114 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Warrington Museum & Decorative Art Art Gallery *† (continued)

(continued) Other - Metalwork Local interest Electroplate replicas of items in National Museums C19 samplers 1,080 Weaver's Triangle Clothing Visitor Centre Textiles

The Collected Collections Page 115 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Fine Art No of Decorative Art No of Costume & Textiles No of Items Items Items Wigan Heritage Service Oils 180 ` Wigan Pier Watercolours 120 Heritage Centre Prints 1,400 Hindley Museum Peer-Groves collection Powell Gallery Dootson collection Trencherfield Prosser-White collection Mill Crawford collection 1,242 History Shop Windermere Steamboat Museum *† Wirral Museum & Art Watercolours, British Liverpool porcelain 300 Costume & textiles listed Gallery Services - Liverpool School Della Robbia pottery 150 by museum with Dec Art Birkenhead Philip Wilson Steer Merseyside ceramics but to be collected in a Williamson Art Local paintings British ceramics limited way in future for Gallery & Historic British paintings Crafts Soc Hist and functional Museum Contemporary British Oriental reasons Birkenhead paintings Continental Priory Foreign paintings Lee St Mary's Tower Prints Glass Shore Road Photographs Metalwork Pumping Station Sculpture Jewellery Woodside Visitor Furniture Centre

The Collected Collections Page 116 September 1998

What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Social History

Industrial History

The Collected Collections Page 117 September 1998

NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Social History & Industrial History *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Allerdale Borough Museums Helena Thompson Museum - Maryport Maritime Museum - Helena Thompson Museum † - Workington Reflecting the life of Helena Thompson’s Local industries Keswick Museum & Art family in C18 & C19 & her interests, Gallery *† material with local links Maryport Maritime Antiques & curios Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Museum † Family possessions Industries Personalia Agriculture Portraits 500 Domestic chattels see also Costume & Textiles Decorative Art & Fine Art Also Local trades Domestic life Community life Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Domestic life Trades 1,000

The Collected Collections Page 118 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Armitt Trust Museum & Library *† Social history and items re the - Ambleside personalities contributing to the library 100 Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Coal Mining Tyldesley Steam Power Barrow in Furness Museums Domestic Shipbuilding Service *† Trade Iron Mining Dock Museum Agriculture Iron & Steel Production Firearms Edged weapons Beacon, The *† - Whitehaven Intend to actively collect Coal mining Included see Ephemera Iron mining in Social 4,536 - inc lamps, tokens, instruments, photos, History documents, plans Chemical industry Nuclear industry

The Collected Collections Page 119 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Blackburn Museum & Art Large amount, mainly pre 1945 Industrial machinery Gallery *† inc large number of archives - see Replicas of early machines Lewis Textile Museum Archives Machines from mills Teaching aids from Blackburn and Horology - inc notable items by local Oldham Technical Colleges makers Elements of the stored textile machinery Stamps, British & Colonial collection are under review for possible transfer to other specialist collections in Blackburn postal covers the North West c.600 Boat Museum *† - Ellesmere Port A supporting collection for educational & Patterns 370 display use Warehouse ) Transport equipment) Weighing equipment) 280

Surveying equipment 33 Lifting equipment 80

The Collected Collections Page 120 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Bolton Museums & Art Gallery *† Local History 1,500 inc: 1,500 Textile Central Museum, AG & Commemorative 40 Engineering Aquarium Chemist Iron & lead Hall i'th' Wood Medical 50 Chemical Smithills Hall Clocks/watches Paper Local History Museum Carpentry Printing (closed-colls in store '93) Clogger Brick Tonge Moor Textile Basket making 500 Tile Museum Bottles 300 Sanitary Ware (closed-colls in store '93) Gen Soc Hist (Bygones) many not Coal directly relevant to Bolton 2,500 Quarrying Agriculture Architectural fragments 50 Service industries Local art Leather Trade Unions

The Collected Collections Page 121 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Bury Art Gallery and Museum SHIC classification 1,2,& 3 SHIC classification 4, working life esp Total No Community life local industries & trades of items Domestic/family life Textiles inc. in Personal life inc. A & J Hoyle Soc Hist 7,810 Papermaking inc. James Kenyon Engineering inc. Robert Hall Brick-making inc. T H Halsall Brewing inc. Crown Brewery Shoe repairing Clogging Co-op retail Medicine Carlisle City Museums Substantial collection mainly C19 & Carr’s biscuits Guildhall Museum C20, objects, ephemera, photos, oral Stead McAlpin & Buck’s shirt factory Tullie House Museum & Art history. All organised by SHIC Metal Box Gallery Agriculture esp. Tools Livestock & dairying

The Collected Collections Page 122 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Domestic, rural & regional Gallery Rural crafts & life (continued) Blacksmith Woodworking Shoemaking Wildfowling

Brewing & innkeeping

Childcare & toys

Pastimes

Public Services Health & Welfare Police Fire Service Water Sewage Gas Electricity

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 123 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Carlisle City Museums (continued) Guildhall Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Politics Gallery Guilds Civic (continued) District National Wartime, civilian life Firearms, mostly sporting, 8 Cumberland gunsmiths represented Guns 54 Pistols 34 Scottish ‘Long Gun’ C17/C18 Local events Everyday local life

Philatelic G B Routledge collection, Great Britain and local material Catalyst *† - Widnes Chemical 6,000 Cheshire Military Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 124 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Cheshire Museums *† - Agriculture Salt 1,500 Museum Services Unit Cvic Foundry - Salt Museum † Gen Soc Hist patterns & tools 100-200 Stretton Watermill Trades (no numerical breakdown at present but 85% of coll on MODES PLUS now - could be done) Chester Museums Service *† Domestic Grosvenor Museum Musical instruments Heritage Centre Toys King Charles Tower Water Tower Chorley Arts & Museums Service † General social history Astley Hall Mus & AG Horse brasses 150 Printing plates 35 Architectural material City of Liverpool Relating to the Hall or the Sefton family Relating to the Hall or the Sefton family 10 Croxteth Hall & Country Covering life 1800-1970 400 Park *† Approx Cumbria Police Museum *† - Police Force 1,875 Industrial History 125 Penrith

The Collected Collections Page 125 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Artefacts re Wordsworth & family Museum Possessions Glass Ceramics Costume

Artefacts re life in Grasmere Furniture Utensils Spinning wheels Pace eggs Crafts Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum Religion - Methodism 600 of Primitive Methodism *† - Crewe Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The *† - Bury Greater Manchester Police Police Force approx Museum *† 6,000 Grundy Art Gallery † - Blackpool

The Collected Collections Page 126 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Harris Museum & Art Gallery *† - Domestic life Preston Working life Personal life Community life Preston Guild 1,200 Toys, games, dolls Cigarette, tea cards Music covers Greetings cards 4,668 Philatelic collection 8,600 approx 40,000 Haworth Art Gallery - Accrington Local collection Heritage Trust for the North West † Principal items see Social History (Pendle Heritage Centre) Antiquarian & architectural books on North West region

Prints & negatives 1870 onwards 20,000

The Collected Collections Page 127 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) Views of local buildings by local (continued) & visiting artists C18 onwards Paintings Drawings Lithographs Engravings

Maps & estate documents C17 to date

Regional vernacular furniture

Objects re social history of North East Lancashire 1,500+

C18 diaries of Abraham Hargreaves & Elizabeth Shackleton (Barrowford residents)

Archive of Bannister family of Park Hill Swinglehursts of Park Hill

The Collected Collections Page 128 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) Indentures & inventories re Park (continued) Hill

C17 Will transcripts & inventories of people in the Forest 200+ of Pendle

Architectural features inc. C17 C18 C19 Doors Windows Plasterwork Decorative ironwork Door furniture C19 C20 Hob grates Fireplaces

Oral history archive on Lancashire Textile Industry

The Collected Collections Page 129 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) Research papers, documents & (continued) photos from Houses of the Lancashire Pennines by Sarah Pearson

Survey of Pendle’s buildings of historic & architectural interest 1975

Survey of water power sites in 400 Pendle

Agricultural tools & machines 200

Archive of plants grown at Park Hill in C18

Garden tools & implements

Nature reserve inc. C18 copse

The Collected Collections Page 130 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) Buildings (continued) Park Hill - C17 farmhouse Georgian residence C16 cruck frame barn Early C18 barn C19 labourers cottages with stables (two of them)

Barrowford Toll House

Early C19 square stone chimney at Higherford Mill

Pair of C17 terrace cottages & former joiner’s workshop at Slaidburn

The Collected Collections Page 131 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) Collections are organised by (continued) SHIC under the following headings

1 Community Life 1.1 Cultural Traditions 1.11-1.12 Custom & belief 1.2 Organisations 1.21 business & professional 1.23 Labour 1.25 Friendly Societies 1.27 sporting 1.28 Learned 1.29 Other organisations 1.3 Regulations & Control 1.32 Regional government 1.33 Local government 1.4 Welfare & Wellbeing 1.41 Health 1.42 Welfare 1.43 Sanitation

The Collected Collections Page 132 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 1.5 Education (continued) 1.50 General 1.51 School 1.52 Higher 1.53 Adult 1.6 Amenities, Entertainment & Sport 1.61 Cultural amenities 1.62 Open spaces 1.63 Public memorials 1.64 Hygiene amenities 1.65 Street management 1.66 Entertainment 1.67 Sport 1.69 Other amenities 1.8 Warfare & Defence 1.86 Civil units 1.87 Civilian life in wartime

The Collected Collections Page 133 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 2.2 House Structure & (continued) Infrastructure 2.20 General 2.21 Walling 2.22 Roofing 2.23 Doors 2.24 Windows 2.25 Flooring 2.26 Ceilings 2.27 Staircases 2.28 Services 2.29 Other components 2.3 Heating,Lighting, Water & Sanitation 2.31 Heating 2.32 Lighting 2.33 Water 2.34 Sanitation

The Collected Collections Page 134 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 2.4 Furnishings & Fittings (continued) 2.41 Furniture 2.42 Small furnishings 2.43 Soft furnishings 2.44 Floor coverings 2.45 Ornaments & curios 2.46 Pictures 2.47 Wall fittings 2.5 Cleaning & maintenance 2.51 House cleaning 2.53 Laundering 2.54 Pest control 2.6 Food, Drink & Tobacco 2.61 Recipe & cook books 2.62 Storage 2.63 Preservation 2.64 Preparation 2.65 Cooking 2.66 Serving, eating & drinking 2.67 Products 2.68 Tobacco

The Collected Collections Page 135 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 2.8 Hobbies, Crafts & Pastimes (continued) 2.84 Other crafts & hobbies 2.85 Music 2.86 Books 2.9 Domestic Life Not Elsewhere Included 2.92 Gardening 2.93 Livestock 2.94 Travel 3.2 Relics, Mementoes & Memorials 3.22 Mementoes 3.23 Memorials 3.3 Costume 3.32 Men’s 3.33 Women’s 3.35 Boy’s 3.36 Girl’s 3.37 Infant’s

The Collected Collections Page 136 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 3.4 Accessories not Elsewhere (continued) Specified 3.41 Storage 3.42 Timekeeping 3.43 Writing 3.5 Toilet 3.50 General 4.1 Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing 4.11 Agriculture 4.12 Horticulture 4.14 Forestry 4.15 Fishing 4.2 Energy & Water Supply Industries 4.21 Peat cutting & coal extraction 4.27 Water supply Industry

The Collected Collections Page 137 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heritage Trust for the North West † (continued) (Pendle Heritage Centre) 4.5 Manufacturing Industries not (continued) Elsewhere Specified 4.53 Textile industry 4.54 Manufacture of leather & leather goods 4.55 Footwear & clothing industries 4.59 Other manufacturing industries 4.6 Construction 4.60 General construction & demolition work 4.61 Construction & repair of buildings 4.62 Installation of fixtures & fittings 4.63 Building completion work 4.7 Transport & Communication 4.70 General 4.71 Road 4.72 Rail 4.73 Inland waterway

The Collected Collections Page 138 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Heron Corn Mill & Paper Beginning to collect re the after treatment Corn milling Museum *† - Milnthorpe of grain/flour/meal i.e. baking - various The site and items relating to it advertising items so far Artefacts Printed material Photographs Ephemera Beginning to collect re the after treatment of grain/flour/meal i.e. baking - various advertising items so far

Papermaking Items re Waterhouse Mill, Beetham & Henry Cooke & family Artefacts Ledgers Day books Documents Photographs Film Plans Drawings Paper types

The Collected Collections Page 139 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & Kendal Museum of Natural History & Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Museum Trust *† Archaeology - Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Tools, machinery & artefacts re local Kendal Local history of Kendal and former urban & light industries Kendal Museum of Natural county of Westmorland Printing History & Archaeology Personal life Weaving Museum of Lakeland Life & Domestic life Wool trade Industry - Kendal Working life Mechanics Community life House painter/decorator 1,700 Shoemaking Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Clogging Farm implements Leather/tanning industry Agricultural tools Hornworking Veterinary equipment Metalworking Harnesses Engineer Trapping equipment Brush making Animal husbandry Brewer Dairying Snuff manufacture 445 Shop keeping Paper making 910

The Collected Collections Page 140 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & (continued) (continued) Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Vernacular oak furniture of local origin, Tools & artefacts re rural trades inc. Kendal mainly C17 & early C18 inc. Farriery Kendal Museum of Natural Panelling Saddlery History & Archaeology Banisters Mining & quarrying Museum of Lakeland Life & Doors Coppice trades Industry - Kendal Furnishings Swillmaking Firescreens Hoop making (continued) Hot water bottles Coopery Bed pans Charcoal burning Souvenirs 180 Besom making Potash burning Long case clocks & clock making 20 Blacksmith Wheelwright Domestic objects Bobbin making Kitchen equipment & utensils Gunpowder manufacture Cleaning equipment 960 Laundering equipment Treen Household textiles inc. Patchwork Rag/hooky rugs Lace Embroidery 1,080

The Collected Collections Page 141 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & (continued) Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Oral history/dialect transcriptions Kendal Kendal Museum of Natural Toys History & Archaeology Dolls Museum of Lakeland Life & Games Industry - Kendal 440 Schools (continued) Education 80 WWI & WWII material 40

Dentist Doctor Nursing 70 Sport & leisure inc. Hunting Fishing Cumberland & Westmorland wrestling Fell running Gurning Climbing *Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 142 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & (continued) Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Sport & leisure inc. continued Kendal Skating Kendal Museum of Natural Gardening History & Archaeology Travel Museum of Lakeland Life & Music Industry - Kendal Entertainment Tennis (continued) 245 Lancashire County Museum County Palatine Machinery invented/developed in Lancs Service † Medieval - 1974 Judges' Lodgings † - Lancs County Representative cross-section of Lancaster 1974 onwards manufactured goods and services in Fleetwood Museum † Personal life County County & Regimental Domestic life Museum - Preston Working life More detailed collections Turton Tower † - Bolton Community life Textile ind Helmshore Textile esp. Childhood Agriculture Museums - Rossendale Rural life Fishing Entertainment industry Road transport

The Collected Collections Page 143 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Lancashire County Museum (continued) Service † Judges' Lodgings † - County history - admin/legal Duchy of Lancaster Lancs, County Palatine, County Fleetwood Museum † County & Regimental Local history - parts of county where no Museum - Preston registered museum exists Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

(continued) Lancaster City Museums *† Domestic life Local industries Lancaster Museum *† Local life 350 Lancaster Maritime Trades Museum *† +1,000 Cottage Museum Maritime Roman Bath House Domestic life 50 St. Patrick's Chapel - Local life 100 Heysham Town Hall Collections

The Collected Collections Page 144 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Littleborough Museum Domestic life Textile Personal items Community life Crafts & trades Retail Office work Ceramics Local chapels Font Ornaments Macclesfield Museums Trust † West Park Museum & Art Gallery - West Park Museum & Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill Local History Technology West Park Museum & Art Police truncheons Gallery Rattle Model Cutlass & scabbard Set of printers blocks for silk printing Scold’s bridle Model steam engine-duplex horizontal Felon’s cage & handcuffs reversible Commemorative china Lace pillow & bobbins Memorabilia Sedan chair

The Collected Collections Page 145 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Macclesfield Museums Trust † (continued) (continued) Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill Silk Museum - Silk Museum - West Park Museum & Art Gallery Domestic Life - Silk Industry Cooking utensils (continued) Dolly tub Hand Jacquard + parts 26 Washboard Jacquard punched cards Flat irons Beaming machine Goffering irons Piano card cutters Bottles Repeater machine Clay pipes Smiths power looms 2 Stone hot water bottles Handframe knitting machines 2 China desk-top accessories Circular knitting machines Typewriters Skein to bobbin winders Sewing machines Hand pirn machines Needlecraft Power pirn winder Lacemaking Warping mill Bedspreads Braiding machines 2 Small stoves Block making tools Toys Block printing table (section) Games Tierers trolley Silk cart

also see Archives

The Collected Collections Page 146 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Macclesfield Museums Trust † (continued) Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill Ecclesiastical West Park Museum & Art Textiles Gallery Altar cloths Church furnishings (continued) Sunday school banner Trades & Crafts - Shoemaking Opticians Photography Education - Classroom equipment & furniture inc. Slates Quill pens Abacus Charts Maps Victorian desks Copybooks Registers from Macclesfield Sunday School & other schools

The Collected Collections Page 147 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish Museum *† Home Work Leisure Religion - Jewish Manchester Transport Museum - Heaton Park, Manchester

The Collected Collections Page 148 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Manx National Heritage *† Manx Museum - majority of collections Industrial history Castle Rushen House of Manannan - items in maritime (listed under Soc Hist by SHIC) Laxey Wheel 7 Lead Mines displays Manx Museum Castle Rushen - some items Peel Castle & House of Old Grammar School - some items Manannan St Mary's Chapel, the Old Areas covered by collections as follows - Grammar School - Castletown C17 to present day (listed by SHIC) inc. Furniture Agriculture Oral history Museum of Science & Industry *† - Domestic 500 Energy (electrical prime movers) 3,000 Manchester History of Manchester 100 Gas 200 Housing 3 Machine tools 40 Water supply & sanitation 50 Papermaking & printing 250 Clocks 50 Textile, spinning, weaving, finishing 10,000 Museum of the King's Own Royal Social history 100 Industrial history +20 Regiment *† - Lancaster

The Collected Collections Page 149 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum Community Life Commemorative items inc. Plate Mugs Beam Heath Trust Collection Handcuffs & key (from old Gaol House) Fire Services (inc. fire engine & leather buckets) Schools & education (inc. slates Coins Tokens Medallions Local items re WWI & WWII

Warfare & Defence Civil war armour Cannon balls Shot

Domestic & Family Life -

The Collected Collections Page 150 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Heating, lighting, water & sanitation Poker Shovel Tongs Candlesticks Paraffin lamps Lavatory pan Furnishings & fittings Bed cover Lambrequin Quilt Samplers Cleaning & maintenance Vacuum cleaners Irons Mangle Washing dollies Beetle trap

The Collected Collections Page 151 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Food, drink & tobacco Containers Scales Measures Rolling pins Baking tins Beakers Kitchen utensils Medical Thermometer Pill box Hobbies, crafts & pastimes Dolls Dolls’ clothes Bagatelle & other games Playing cards Tennis ball cleaner Sewing accessories Sewing machine Gramophone Box camera

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 152 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Personal Life - Men’s costume Jackets Trousers Waistcoats Swimming costume Boots Signet ring Women’s costume Medieval ring Dresses Jackets Skirts Capes Wedding dress Aprons Mourning clothes Knickers Nightdresses

The Collected Collections Page 153 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Women’s costume continued Bonnets Gloves Boots Shoes Accessories inc. bags, buttonhooks, parasols Children’s Costume Bronze Age bracelet Baby clothes Christening dress Dresses Jackets Bibs Petticoats Nightdresses Boots Shoes Toilet Curling tongs

The Collected Collections Page 154 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Food, drink & tobacco carried on person Pipes Snuff box Cigarette Medical Spectacles

Working Life - Agriculture Butter making (extensive) Cheese making (extensive) Water supply Wooden water supply from Nantwich Mineral & chemical Salt pan Flagons Bottles

The Collected Collections Page 155 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Engineering Longcase Nantwich clocks Bracket clock Wheel nut Steam engine Clockmakers hand warmer Weighing machine Tin making tools Textile Lace pillow Bobbin thread Footwear & clothing industries Shoe last Shoe soles Tools Cobblers knives Shoes (local made) Boots (local made) Pay-book Hat & clothes brush Glove clamp

The Collected Collections Page 156 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Timber & wooden furniture Saw Planes Corner chair Shop & office fittings Adding machine Bill holder Wall signs Tudor carving Photographic processing Developing tank Retail distribution Meat pie moulds Liniment bottle Price cards Items from Heath’s Haberdashery inc. Wax beads Child’s clothes Price labels Shears Wax models

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 157 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Nantwich Museum (continued)

(continued) Other working Life - Trustee Savings Bank box Traveller’s handcase Business calendar Miscellaneous - Nantwich toy shop National Museum of Labour Working class life & institutions History † - Manchester Banners Pump House Photos Badges Tools Regalia Painting

The Collected Collections Page 158 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items National Museums & Galleries on Public services Dock related, including: Merseyside *† Domestic life Carting Liverpool Museum Recreation & pop culture Coopering Walker Art Gallery Religious life Cargo handling Lady Lever AG Political life Warehousing Sudley House Customs & Excise Shipwrighting Oratory Sugar Maritime Museum Tobacco Museum of Liverpool Life Foodstuffs HM Customs & Excise Crafts Museum Car Retail Commerce Norton Priory Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 159 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Oldham Museums Items re Oldham, mainly Local textile industry (Platts) - inc. Oldham Museum Domestic & household Mule section (1927) Oldham Art Gallery Community life Slubbing machine (1952) Commercial life Drawing frame Costume & accessories Locally made items - inc. Objects 8,000 Braddocks gas meter Ephemera 5,000 Spencer lathe Photographs 15,000 Bradbury motor cycle Oral history archive Bradbury sewing machines

Small collections of Traditional crafts - inc. Numismatics Wheelwrighting Horology Clogging Militaria Hatting Coal industry 28,000 Penrith Museum *† History of Penrith Artefacts 400 Photos 300 Archives 700 Peter Scott Gallery *† - Lancaster University

The Collected Collections Page 160 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Quarry Bank Mill Working & living conditions of workforce Queen's Lancashire Regiment Documents Weapons Museum *† - Preston Diaries Technical instruments Photographs 152 Newspapers Magazines Personal items 550 Ravenglass Railway Museum Iron mining Granite quarrying Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment & Kings Own Border Regiment - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Museum Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery † Domestic life Wool Working life Cotton Retail Silk Crafts Clogging Coopering Carpentry Tin-smith

The Collected Collections Page 161 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Rochdale Pioneers Museum *† Pioneers & Co-op Movement Artefacts Documents ) Manuscripts ) Books ) 30,000 Photographs Banners Retail Ceramics(commemorative) 200 Rossendale Museum *† Community Textiles Domestic Footwear esp clogs Family Bricks Personal Working Horology Ruskin Museum *† - Coniston Local social history 550 Industrial History 30 Saddleworth Museum & Art Shops & offices Textile Gallery *† Community life Craft & Trade tools 500 Domestic life Personal items Commemorative ornaments

2,000

The Collected Collections Page 162 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† Agriculture Mining collections re N West & esp. Lancashire Mining Museum Harness Lancashire Coalfield inc. Ordsall Hall Museum Machinery from N West Associations Salford Museum & Art Items of local interest Trade Unions, ephemera, badges etc. Gallery Horticulture Clothing Implements re Extraction Cultivating Photographs & books re quarrying & Harvesting opencast Dairying Currency Livestock C17 & C18 tokens, mainly N West Education Communications - Mining students workbooks & Canals records Local documents Lighting Commemorative wares Lamps, fittings etc. Illustrations Recreation Uniform Archives & ephemera Models Services & resources Fire-fighting & rescue equipment

The Collected Collections Page 163 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Road Mining collections re N West & esp. Salford Museum & Art Boundary posts Lancashire Coalfield continued inc. Gallery Milestones Tobacco & snuff tins Traffic signs (continued) Transport Toys & games Ephemera re public transport Carts Trades & professions Bicycles Carriages Industrial archaeology Licences Small objects of equipment (old & Licence plates new) Travel Instruments Luggage labels Signs Bags Surveying Trunks Gas detection Coal-cutting Shot-firing Early mining

The Collected Collections Page 164 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Post (inc. telecommunications) Archive material Salford Museum & Art Material re postal services Ownership records Gallery Philately Documents National Savings Plans (continued) Telephones Photographs Radios Leases Crystal sets Ledgers Televisions Account books Accumulators & headsets Wage books Costume Minute books Substantial collection Commemorative colliery souvenirs esp Ephemera Victorian Postcards Women’s Leaflets Children’s Posters (inc. foreign mining) Edwardian Fine Art Women’s Sketches Children’s Drawings Watercolours Oils Prints Illuminated addresses from C18 onward

The Collected Collections Page 165 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Crafts & Industries - Books Salford Museum & Art Miscellaneous inc. Photographic Gallery Pay checks Reference collection on Lancashire Trade & Industry exhibition coal mining (continued) examples Frank Grimshaw collection Blacksmith National Coal Board prints Farrier tools & equipment Walker Brothers (Wigan) photos & Brewing negatives Bottles Glass lantern slides Catalogues Certificates see also Social History Ephemera Local brewery Fixtures Fittings Equipment Builder Tools

The Collected Collections Page 166 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Carpenter Salford Museum & Art Joiner’s tools Gallery Moulding planes Gauges (continued) Braces Chisels Tool chests Books Footwear manufacture Clogs Clogger’s equipment Shoe making tools Shoe repairing tools Cooper Tools Engineering Tools Equipment Catalogues Promotional material Products by local firms Nasmyth Gardners

The Collected Collections Page 167 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Glass Salford Museum & Art Flint glass Gallery Stained glass Catalogues & designs by George (continued) Wragge Printing Printing presses Blocks Plates Sample work Booklets Shipwright & boat building Tools Textiles Printing equipment Fabric samples Patterns Books Tools Machinery

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 168 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Wheelwright Salford Museum & Art Tools Gallery Cart shafts Wheels (continued) Catalogues Patterns Domestic - Admin Account books Mortgage Rent book Cleaning Household appliances & accessories Cleaning preparation inc. Donkey stones Polish Household soap Cleaning utensils Knife boards Cleaners Pot scrapers

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned

The Collected Collections Page 169 September 1998 Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Food & drink Salford Museum & Art Recipe books Gallery Cooking utensils Cooking containers (continued) Bottle jacks Food warmers Ovens Toasters Stoves Cutlery Drinking vessels Crockery Kitchen implements Packed foods & drink Cold storage equipment Table accessories

The Collected Collections Page 170 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Furnishing - Salford Museum & Art General Gallery Books Surface finishes e.g. (continued) Tiles Varnish Wallpaper Rag rugs Carpets Linoleum Sample books Ornaments Pictures Small house fittings Soft furnishings Furniture, mainly Victorian & Edwardian Chairs Tables Heating Solid fuel fireplaces, grates & accessories Electric heaters Gas heaters

The Collected Collections Page 171 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum House structure Salford Museum & Art Doors Gallery Flooring Roofing materials (continued) Mains services e.g. electric plugs, bulbs etc Gas Sewage Water Stairs Bricks Carved wood panels Wattle & daub panel Windows Kindling Matches Lighters Tapers Spillboxes Tinderboxes

The Collected Collections Page 172 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Laundry Salford Museum & Art Irons Gallery Clothes dryers Airers (continued) Pegs Wringers Washing tubs Dollies Washboards Washing machines Washing soaps & powders Lighting Candlesticks Wick trimmers/snuffers Rush-light holders Oil lamps Gas lamps Electric light fittings

The Collected Collections Page 173 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Water & sanitation Salford Museum & Art Baths Gallery Sinks Chamber pots (continued) Toilet services Washstands Water closets

Personal use - General Card cases Key rings Shopping discs Trinket boxes Bookmarks Savings Money boxes Admin Books Diaries Letters Postcards Visiting cards

The Collected Collections Page 174 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Infantalia Salford Museum & Art Perambulators Gallery Cooling powders Feeding bottles (continued) Rattles Teething rings Medical Hearing aids Sight aids Reading Fiction (adult & child) Non-fiction (adult & child) Magazines Newspapers Souvenirs Ornaments Crested ware Greeting cards

The Collected Collections Page 175 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Tobacco Salford Museum & Art Adverts Gallery Ash trays Cigar & cigarette boxes (continued) Cigar & cigarette holders Pipes & accessories Snuff boxes Toilet Dressing cases Dressing table sets Hair treatments Styling equipment Dryers Mirrors Cosmetics Manicure Oral hygiene Perfume Shaving brushes & soap Razors & strops

The Collected Collections Page 176 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Writing Salford Museum & Art Stationery Gallery Inkwells & stands Letter racks (continued) Paper knives Penknives Paperweights Pens Pencils Slates Wafer boxes Writing boxes

Recreation - Cinema & theatre bills/posters Board & card games Jigsaw puzzles Fruit machines Hobbies inc. gardening & holidays

The Collected Collections Page 177 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Music Salford Museum & Art Ephemera re events Gallery Sheet music Instruments (continued) Recorded music, cylinder & disc Phonographs Gramophones Record players Musical boxes Barrel organs Pianolas Photography Developing equipment Printing equipment Storing photos Lantern slides Negatives Prints Projectors Albums Cased photos Personal photos Cartes-de-visite

The Collected Collections Page 178 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Sport Salford Museum & Art Equipment Gallery Clothing Trophies (continued) Medals Ephemera Toys Dolls Doll parts Dolls’ houses Dolls’ house furniture Mechanical toys Toy theatres Soft toys Musical toys Optical toys

Society - Adverts Posters Enamel signs

The Collected Collections Page 179 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Society - (continued) Salford Museum & Art Novelty advertisements Gallery Trade gifts Postal shopping Gift catalogues (continued) Amenities Ephemera & memorabilia re local facilities e.g. Markets Open spaces Currency Coins British & English, late Saxon to present Foreign Eccles Coin Hoard (Henry III) Tokens British C17-C19 Foreign Customs & Calendar, mainly re Xmas, Easter etc Cards Ephemera Novelties

The Collected Collections Page 180 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Life, marriage, death Salford Museum & Art Birthday cards Gallery Love tokens Wedding invitations (continued) Memorial cards Education Copy books Exercise books Slates Text books Certificates Attendance medals Reports Samplers Test pieces Photographs of local schools Photographs of class groups & activities School furniture Events Commemorative ephemera Commemorative Medals

The Collected Collections Page 181 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Fire Salford Museum & Art Photographs Gallery Fire-fighting equipment Fire marks (continued) Hydrant location plates Helmets Uniform Morris & Sons Fire Engineers items Wooden patterns for fire appliances Print blocks for illustration of catalogues Drawings of fire appliances Health, apparatus & manuals re Dentists Doctors Hospitals

The Collected Collections Page 182 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Law Salford Museum & Art Posters Gallery Helmets Uniforms (continued) Truncheons Rattles Whistles Doors from Cow Lane Lock Up Broadsheets Scold’s bridle Manacles Thumb screws New Bailey Prison, Salford - prints, plans & photos Local government Local Town Hall illustrations Plaques Posters Freedom of the Borough Medals Badges Commemorative pottery Coat of arms Seals

The Collected Collections Page 183 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Local government (continued) Salford Museum & Art Civic regalia Gallery Portraits of mayors Portraits of councillors (continued) Illuminated addresses Monarchy Photographs Medals Commemorative ware Organisations relating to Trade unions Friendly societies Learned societies Temperance movements Voluntary organisations Medallions Ceremonial Clothing Certificates Ephemera

The Collected Collections Page 184 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Religion Salford Museum & Art Bibles Gallery Prayer & hymn books Communion set (continued) Candlesticks Communion tokens Casts of pilgrim tokens Alms dishes Crucifixes Sunday schools medals Sunday school books Postcards & illustrations of local churches Banners Weathercock Wood carvings Pew ends Welfare Poor Law Guardian’s chairs Soup kitchen token Salford Union Workhouse items

The Collected Collections Page 185 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Weights & measures Salford Museum & Art Measures Gallery Tallies Counter scales (continued) Beam balance Letter scales Coin scales Weighing machine Spring balances Weights Textile crafts Embroidery Samplers Berlin woolwork Beadwork Crochet Knitting Macrame Needlework tools Needlework accessories Patterns Trimmings

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 186 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Textile crafts (continued) Salford Museum & Art Buttons Gallery Rag rugs Rug-making equipment (continued) Timekeepers & barometers Wall clocks Mantel clocks Longcase clocks Watches, some by local makers Watch furniture e.g. Cases Chains Holders Keys Stands

Trades & professions - General Shop fixtures Shop fittings Shop furniture

The Collected Collections Page 187 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Barber Salford Museum & Art Pole Gallery Chair Clippers (continued) Combs Mirrors Razors Butcher Adverts Chopper Door Knives Pole axe From local slaughterhouse - Pulley Rib breaker Chemists Appliances Dispensing equipment Medicines Sundries Furnishings

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 188 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Dairy Salford Museum & Art Cream jars Gallery Milk bottles Tokens (continued) Herbalist Books Herb beer barrels Flagons Packets of herbs Handbills Office Adding machines Calculators Books Dictaphone Duplicators Embossing Presses Rubber stamps Staplers Typewriters

The Collected Collections Page 189 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Publican Salford Museum & Art Barrels Gallery Beer cans Bottles (continued) Tokens Fittings Furnishings Adverts Sweetshop Sweet tins Sweet boxes Adverts Tobacconist Adverts Mirror Snuff bags Sign Tobacco tins Cutters Scales Vending machine

The Collected Collections Page 190 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Undertakers Salford Museum & Art Coffin Gallery Carriage lamps Signs (continued) Hearse Vet Docking fork Drenching horns Fleams Instruments

Warfare - Awards Medals Plaques World War I Badges Postcards Rolls of honour Memorials

The Collected Collections Page 191 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† (continued) Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum World War II Salford Museum & Art Gas masks Gallery Helmets Civil defence material (continued) Home Front material Armour Uniforms Weapons Sefton Museums *† Botanic Gardens Museum Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Local history & social history not Industrial process samples Bootle Free Museum & Art necessarily with direct local significance, Gallery Collections substantial collection inc. (museum closed) Albion printing press Botanic Gardens Museum - Meredith fire engine c.1883 Southport Scientific instruments Office equipment Furniture Porcelain Toys

The Collected Collections Page 192 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Sefton Museums *† (continued) Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Botanic Gardens Museum (continued) Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery Collections Local history paintings (museum closed) Local history Botanic Gardens Museum - Photographs Southport Lantern slides Glass negatives (continued) Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery

Local history artefacts

WWII local Artefacts Ephemera Photographs

see also Fine Art Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Local history, 89 acid free boxes Centre † - Leyland

The Collected Collections Page 193 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items St. Helens Museum & Art Leisure & pop culture 30 Mining 212 Gallery *† Youth organisations 10 Glass 700 Adult organisations 10 Agriculture 20 Political life 20 Brewing & mineral water 100 Health 30 Chemical & pharmaceutical 100 Law & order 4 Extractive 20 Emergency services 25 Iron, steel & foundries 10 Military & warfare 157 Copper, lead & metals 16 Clay pipes 113 all approx Candlemakers 10 figs Cooperage 10 Nail making 10 Stockport Heritage Services *† Agriculture Bricks 25 Stockport Museum Domestic life Foundry Bramall Hall Community life Silk Lyme Hall Music Cotton Stockport Art Gallery Office life Fur felt hatting Hatting Museum Trades & professions Machinery 60 Stockport Air Raid Shelters (more detail if needed) Photos 800 Chadkirk Chapel Hat blocks 3,000 Brewing & mineral water Printing Food

The Collected Collections Page 194 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Tameside Museum Service General Social History Industry, local Astley Cheetham Art Domestic life Manufacture Gallery Family life Production Museum of the Manchesters † Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Bakery Listed with Social History Museums *† - Burnley Basket making Towneley Hall Blacksmith Museum of Local Crafts & Bottles/bar fittings Industries Bygones Natural History Centre & Carpenter Aquarium Clay pipes Clogger Coffee shop Cooper Domestic equipment Horse drawn vehicles

The Collected Collections Page 195 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Towneley Hall Art Gallery & (continued) Museums *† - Burnley Towneley Hall Miscellaneous Museum of Local Crafts & Misc machinery Industries Pattern maker Natural History Centre & Photography Aquarium Plumbing Saddlers (continued) Sewing machines Signwriter Shopfittings Sound reproduction Street furniture Textiles Wheelwright University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

The Collected Collections Page 196 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Science Centre Tabley House The Manchester Museum Whitworth Art Gallery Warrington Museum & Art Domestic Emphasis on local industries c.500 Gallery *† Community Work Leisure c.6,000 Weaver's Triangle Visitor Centre Domestic Textile Educational Office equipment Paintings Prints

Miscellaneous

The Collected Collections Page 197 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Wigan Heritage Service Crafts Textiles Wigan Pier Heritage Centre Clogging Cotton Hindley Museum Clockmaking Silk Powell Gallery Pewter making Rope Trencherfield Mill Glass Coal mining History Shop Costume Heavy engineering Weapons Hand-tools 12,000 Boltmaking Foundry equipment Light industry Shoe-making Food Drug Brewing Tinsmith Windermere Steamboat Museum *† Social History re Windermere & 20% of surrounding area collection

The Collected Collections Page 198 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Social History No of Industrial History No of Items Items Wirral Museum & Art Gallery Domestic Services - Birkenhead Commercial Williamson Art Gallery & Museum Birkenhead Priory St Mary's Tower Shore Road Pumping Station Woodside Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 199 September 1998

What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Transport History

Maritime History

Science

The Collected Collections Page 200 September 1998

NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Transport History, Maritime History & Science *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Allerdale Borough Maryport Maritime Museums Museum - Helena Thompson Maritime memorabilia Museum † - linked to Maryport re Workington People Keswick Museum Ships & Art Gallery *† Trades Maryport Maritime Museum † Armitt Trust Museum & Library *† - Ambleside Astley Green Colliery Rail Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Rail Port & Docks Museums Service *† General Vessels 6 Dock Museum

The Collected Collections Page 201 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Beacon, The *† - Models Inc in Soc Whitehaven Navigational Hist instruments Photos Documents Charts Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery *† Lewis Textile Museum

The Collected Collections Page 202 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Boat Museum *† - Items re history and Ellesmere Port tradition of inland waterways & assoc coastal waterways of Great Britain Boats Canoes ) Narrowboats ) Barges ) Tugs ) Maintenance craft) 67

Tools 890 Engines 70 Horse equipment 30 Models 98 Textiles 160 Ceramics 150 Glass 70 Painted ware 200

The Collected Collections Page 203 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Bolton Museums & Scientific,calculating & 330 AG *† testing instruments Central Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium Hall i'th' Wood Smithills Hall Local History Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Bury Art Gallery and Local transport Museum inc. working vehicles Carlisle City Museums Human Guildhall Horse Museum Motor Tullie House Water Museum & Art Air Gallery Railways Catalyst *† - Widnes Transport 10 Maritime 2 Chemical related See Ind Hist

The Collected Collections Page 204 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Cheshire Military Museum *† Cheshire Museums *† - Museum Services Unit Salt Museum † Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Service *† Grosvenor Museum Heritage Centre King Charles Tower Water Tower Chorley Arts & Museums Service † Astley Hall Mus & AG City of Liverpool Relating to the Hall or City Croxteth Hall & of Liverpool 5 Country Park *†

The Collected Collections Page 205 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Cumbria Police Museum *† - Penrith Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum Engelsea Brook Chapel & Museum of Primitive Methodism *† - Crewe Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The *† - Bury Greater Manchester Police Motorcycles 3 Police Museum *† Police Bicycles 2 Grundy Art Gallery † - Blackpool Harris Museum & Art Gallery *† - Preston Haworth Art Gallery - Accrington Heritage Trust for the see Social History North West † (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum *† - Milnthorpe

The Collected Collections Page 206 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal Kendal Museum of Natural History & Archaeology Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal

The Collected Collections Page 207 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Lancashire County Road transport Fishing see industry Museum Service † Judges' Lodgings † - Lancaster Fleetwood Museum † County & Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 208 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Lancaster City Bicycles etc <50 Shipping 100 Museums *† Railways 100 Fishing ) Lancaster Fishing equipment) 250 Museum *† Maritime crafts 150 Lancaster Ship models 35 Maritime Navigation equipment 10 Museum *† Plans & charts 300 Cottage Museum Roman Bath House St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Town Hall Collections Littleborough Museum Canal Rail Road

The Collected Collections Page 209 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums Trust † Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill West Park Museum & Art Gallery Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish Museum *† Manchester Transport Tramways Museum -Heaton Park, Manchester

The Collected Collections Page 210 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Manx National (listed under Soc Hist by (listed under Soc Hist by Heritage *† SHIC) SHIC) Castle Rushen Laxey Wheel & Lead Mines Manx Museum Peel Castle & House of Manannan St Mary's Chapel, the Old Grammar School - Castletown Museum of Science & Aircraft 15 Computers 200 Industry *† - Manchester Aircraft engines and other Photography 500 aviation items (eg models, Scientific instruments 400 instruments 500 Manchester scientists 2 Locomotives 12 Microscopes 100 Cars 10 Surveying 20 Motorbikes 3 Telegraphy 10 Cycles 2 Telephony 100 Carriages 1 Space exploration & 100 fiction

The Collected Collections Page 211 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Museum of the King's Transport 10 Maritime 10 Own Royal Regiment *† - Lancaster Nantwich Museum National Museum of Labour History † - Manchester Pump House

The Collected Collections Page 212 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items National Museums & Land transport 200 Ship models (inc Astronomy 200 Galleries on miniatures) 1,900 Planetary Science & Merseyside *† Paintings, watercolours 1,030 geology 100 Liverpool & prints 80 Space science 200 Museum Full-sized craft 980 Atomic & nuclear physics 60 Walker Art Maritime technology Oceanography 100 Gallery Port services Liverpool science trade Lady Lever Art Maritime soc history (scientific instruments) 75 Gallery Maritime commercial Liverpool physical Sudley House history science teaching coll 175 Oratory Maritime archaeology Maritime Historic sites 20 Museum Transatlantic slavery Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Museum

The Collected Collections Page 213 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Norton Priory Museum *† Oldham Museums Oldham Museum Oldham Art Gallery Penrith Museum *† Peter Scott Gallery *† - Lancaster University Quarry Bank Mill Queen's Lancashire Documentation - accounts Documentation - Instruments Regiment Museum *† - of troop movements accounts of disasters at Medical equipment Preston 12 sea 10 52 Ravenglass Railway Rail Museum Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment & Kings Own Border Regiment - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Museum Rochdale Museum & Coach Art Gallery † Hand-cart Bicycles

The Collected Collections Page 214 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Rochdale Pioneers Museum *† Rossendale Museum *† Ship's badges Ruskin Museum *† - Furness Railway 15 Maritime 4 Coniston Campbell photos etc 300 Saddleworth Museum & Road Art Gallery *† Cars Bicycles 100 Salford Museums & Art see Social History see Social History Galleries *† Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Salford Museum & Art Gallery

The Collected Collections Page 215 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Sefton Museums *† see Social History Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery Collections (museum closed) Botanic Gardens Museum - Southport Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre † - Leyland St. Helens Museum & Canal Art Gallery *† Rail Land 20

The Collected Collections Page 216 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Stockport Heritage Bicycles Services *† Bus Stockport Rail Museum Bramall Hall Lyme Hall Stockport Art Gallery Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel Tameside Museum Service Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Museum of the Manchesters † Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 217 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Towneley Hall Art Horse drawn vehicles Gallery & Museums *† - included in Social History Burnley lists Towneley Hall Museum of Local Crafts & Industries Natural History Centre & Aquarium University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

The Collected Collections Page 218 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Science Centre Tabley House The Manchester Museum Whitworth Art Gallery Warrington Museum & See Social History c.130 See Social History c.20 See Social History c.100 Art Gallery *† Weaver's Triangle Canal equipment Visitor Centre Wigan Heritage Service Models Wigan Pier Wagon plates Heritage Centre Station nameplates Hindley Museum Platform trucks Powell Gallery Tickets Trencherfield Short-boat Mill Signal box History Shop Windermere Steamboat Nautical items esp relating Museum *† to Windermere & 80% of surrounding area collection

The Collected Collections Page 219 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Transport History No of Maritime History No of Science No of Items Items Items Wirral Museum & Art Tramways Models Gallery Services - Motor vehicles Pictures Birkenhead Mersey Ferries Artefacts re life at sea Williamson Art Mersey underground rail inc Gallery & system & pumping station Construction Museum Navigation Birkenhead Social Priory Economic St Mary's Tower Shore Road Pumping Station Woodside Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 220 September 1998

What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Military History

Numismatics

The Collected Collections Page 221 September 1998

NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Military History & Numismatics

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Allerdale Borough Museums Helena Thompson Museum † - Workington Keswick Museum & Art Gallery *† Maryport Maritime Museum † Armitt Trust Museum & Library *† - Ambleside Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Museums Service *† Dock Museum Beacon, The *† - Whitehaven Medals 118 Coins Firearms 4 Tokens (local) Swords 7 139 Gas masks etc. 8

The Collected Collections Page 222 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Blackburn Museum & Art Items re Medals see Military History Gallery *† East Lancs Regiment Lewis Textile Museum 30th Foot R E Hart collection - 59th Foot Early Greek to contemporary, good 2nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteers Roman bronze coins 6,000 Less than Medals 5,000 Hornby collection - Gen coin collection Silver table decorations 300 Ceremonial maces Horne collection - Tokens C18 & C19 Uniforms re 30th, 59th & ELR, 1790s - Less 1945 than100 Cuerdale Hoard (part)

Weapons & firearms Hoard from Tockholes (part)

Edged weapons Less than 200 Items re local military experience with other regiments Less than 200 Boat Museum *† - Ellesmere Port Coins Tokens 45

The Collected Collections Page 223 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Bolton Museums & Art Gallery *† Medals - military 4,000 Central Museum, Art commemorative Gallery & Aquarium Electrotypes Hall i'th' Wood Coins - English Smithills Hall Local History Foreign Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Bury Art Gallery and Museum Local items not relating to the Lancashire Fusiliers Weapons 60 Carlisle City Museums British Guildhall Museum Coins Tullie House Museum & Art British & foreign Gallery Tokens Medals Medallions Catalyst *† - Widnes Military 5

The Collected Collections Page 224 September 1998 Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Cheshire Military Museum *† Material (personal & regimental) re Medals see Military History 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales totals inc. Dragoon Guards) all 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Regiments Cheshire Yeomanry The 22nd(CHESHIRE) Regiment Medals 1,500 Uniforms 2,000 Equipment 800 Weapons & weapon systems 260 Missiles Firearms Edged weapons Furniture 100 Silver 300 Pictures 150 Photographs 1,000s Musical instruments 30 Models 20 Documents 1,000s Personal effects 300

The Collected Collections Page 225 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Cheshire Museums *† - Museum Services Unit Salt Museum † Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Service *† Armour 60 Coins - Grosvenor Museum Swords 34 Greek/Hellenistic 70 Heritage Centre Other Edged Weapons 29 Roman/Byzantine 5,000 King Charles Tower Firearms 74 Anglo-Saxon 1,000 Water Tower Accessories 49 Medieval 750 Castle Esplanade Hoard 200 British 600 World 500 Banknotes 26

Medals, medallions 200 Trade tokens 300 Chorley Arts & Museums Service † 1914-18 war Medals Astley Hall Mus & AG City of Liverpool Croxteth Hall & Country Park *† Cumbria Police Museum *† - Penrith Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum

The Collected Collections Page 226 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum Medals of Primitive Methodism *† - Crewe Medallions 7 Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, Items relating to the Lancashire Fusiliers Medals The *† - Bury Regiment (20th Foot) 1688-1968 and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 1968 to date and its antecedents, Regular, Volunteer,and Militia, from 1688 to the present day, and affiliations made by the Regiment: Small arms Uniforms Insignia Models Maps Paintings Personalia see also under Numismatics, Photographs & Archives Greater Manchester Police Counterfeit Coins & Notes approx Museum *† 20 Grundy Art Gallery † - Blackpool

*Amended Summary Returned

The Collected Collections Page 227 September 1998 †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Harris Museum & Art Gallery *† - Medals 824 Preston Coins & tokens 11,329 12,153 Haworth Art Gallery - Accrington Haworth Bequest Coins 34 Medals 14

Coins Medals Medallions Tokens 3,000 Heritage Trust for the North West † (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum *† - Milnthorpe

The Collected Collections Page 228 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Lake District Art Gallery & Museum Trust *† Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal Kendal Museum of Natural History & Archaeology Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal Lancashire County Museum Service Social aspects of military history Judges' Lodgings † - Lancs Regiments/units/corps who do not Lancaster have independent museum Fleetwood Museum † County & Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 229 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Lancaster City Museums *† Artillery Volunteer items 50 Coins Lancaster Museum *† Naval 80 Roman 500 Lancaster Maritime English medieval 100 Museum *† Tokens Cottage Museum C17 & 18 250 Roman Bath House Orders) St. Patrick's Chapel - Badges) Heysham Medals) 300 Town Hall Collections Maritime Orders Badges 10 Medals 3 Littleborough Museum Military uniform , local Macclesfield Museums Trust † West Park Museum & Art Gallery - Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill Coins West Park Museum & Art Medals Gallery

The Collected Collections Page 230 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish Museum *† Manchester Transport Museum - Heaton Park, Manchester Manx National Heritage *† Manx Museum (most items) - Manx Museum - Castle Rushen Castle Rushen (some items) - Laxey Wheel & Lead Mines Coins Manx Museum Arms & armaments Roman to C16 Peel Castle & House of Hiberno-Norse Manannan Hiberno-Manx St Mary's Chapel, the Old Manx C17 to present Grammar School - Tokens Castletown Medals Medallions Museum of Science & Industry *† - Manchester

The Collected Collections Page 231 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Museum of the King's Own Royal Weapons Medals 1,000 Regiment *† - Lancaster Equipment +1,000 Badges) Insignia) +250 Firearms +30 Edged weapons +50 Silver +50 Ceramics +30 Campaign relics +100 Nantwich Museum see Social History National Museum of Labour History † - Manchester Pump House National Museums & Galleries on King's Regiment coll (loan collection) 10,000 Coins Merseyside *† Medals Liverpool Museum Tokens 18,000 Walker Art Gallery Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Oratory Maritime Museum Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Museum

The Collected Collections Page 232 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Norton Priory Museum *† Oldham Museums see Social History see Social History Oldham Museum Oldham Art Gallery Penrith Museum *† Military 30 Peter Scott Gallery *† - Lancaster University Quarry Bank Mill

The Collected Collections Page 233 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Queen's Lancashire Regiment Items relating to The Queen's Lancashire Medals Museum *† - Preston Regiment and its antecedents, Regular, Campaign & Gallantry Volunteer, and Militia, since 1689 Sporting including : Commemorative Swords & bayonets 750 Firearms Uniforms/clothing Medals Campaign & Gallantry Other Pictures Ammunition Accoutrements Ethnic weapons/artefacts Silver Crockery/china Memorabilia 15,000 see also under Archives Ravenglass Railway Museum

The Collected Collections Page 234 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Regimental Museum of the Border Uniform Medals Regiment & Kings Own Border Textiles Regiment - Carlisle Equipment Badges Insignia Firearms Edged weapons Musical instruments Medals Silver Ceramics Campaign relics Ribchester Roman Museum Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery † Medals Coins Tokens Rochdale Pioneers Museum *†

The Collected Collections Page 235 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Rossendale Museum *† Swords Coins Eng William I-Elizabeth II Roman Foreign 900

Tokens 100 1,000 Ruskin Museum *† - Coniston Uniform belonging to Coniston's VC, Pte 1 Coins & Tokens 130 Hewanson (lent to King's Own Royal Reg't - Lancaster Mus) Saddleworth Museum & Art Military items with community life Roman coins Gallery *† Uniform 75 Tokens 25 Salford Museums & Art Galleries *† see Social History see Social History Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Salford Museum & Art Gallery

The Collected Collections Page 236 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Sefton Museums *† Botanic Gardens Museum Botanic Gardens Museum Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Armoury - antique weapons only - Medals Bootle Free Museum & Art licensed ones transfered to Regimental Tokens Gallery Collections Museum in Preston Numismatics (museum closed) Antique Botanic Gardens Museum - Modern Bootle Free Museum & Art Gallery Southport MOD photographs Films, 16mm re WWII Numismatics Ancient Modern

Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre † - Leyland St. Helens Museum & Art Military & warfare 157 Local Gallery *† Coins 10 Tokens 116 Medals 55

The Collected Collections Page 237 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Stockport Heritage Services *† Cheshire Regt & gen war Coins 450 Stockport Museum Tokens Bramall Hall Local 60 Lyme Hall Other 250 Stockport Art Gallery Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel Tameside Museum Service Museum of the Manchesters - Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Manchester Regiment Museum of the Regimental Manchesters † Social Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 238 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Listed by museum under Dec Arts Coins, British & world Museums *† - Burnley Tokens Towneley Hall E Lancs Regiment Bank notes Museum of Local Crafts & General Sir James Yorke Scarlett Medallions Industries Guns Medals, military & civil Natural History Centre & Edged weapons Aquarium University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

The Collected Collections Page 239 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items University of Manchester The Manchester Museum Jodrell Bank Science Centre Tabley House Greek 2,800 The Manchester Museum Roman & Byzantine 10,600 Whitworth Art Gallery British 4,300 Colonial 1,500 European 30,000 Oriental 4,000 Tokens 3,600 Medallions 2,000 Other 1,500 60,300 Warrington Museum & Art Not listed separately from Firearms and c.200 Coins Gallery *† Social History Roman British Foreign Tokens inc. British Trade Tokens C17 Lancashire trade tokens Medals (inc. military) 6,390 Weaver's Triangle Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 240 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Wigan Heritage Service Trade tokens C17-20 175 Wigan Pier Heritage Centre Gaming counters 11 Hindley Museum Coins Powell Gallery Sir Leslie Scott coll of Graeco- Trencherfield Mill Roman 19 History Shop Roman & Greek 560 Boars Head hoard, Roman 131 British colonial) American )C17-20 European ) 330 Medals 230 Commemorative & Active service 1,456

The Collected Collections Page 241 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Military History No of Numismatics No of Items Items Windermere Steamboat Museum *† Wirral Museum & Art Gallery re local Regiments esp Cheshire Rifles Services - Birkenhead Banners Williamson Art Gallery & Swords Museum Uniforms Birkenhead Priory Guns St Mary's Tower Badges Shore Road Pumping Archives Station Woodside Visitor Centre

The Collected Collections Page 242 September 1998

What has been Collected? Existing Collections

Ephemera

Photographic

Archives

The Collected Collections Page 243 September 1998

NW Federation Collections Survey - Existing Collections

Ephemera, Photographic & Archives *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Allerdale Borough Keswick Museum & Art Keswick Museum & Art Museums Gallery Gallery Helena Archival 1,000 Thompson Photos listed with Fine Literary 4,500 Museum † - Art Workington Keswick Museum & Art Gallery *† Maryport Maritime Museum †

The Collected Collections Page 244 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Armitt Trust Museum & Work by Herbert Bell Manuscripts & letters re Library *† - Ambleside Albums Lake District Portfolio work personalities e.g. Glass plates Ruskin Works by local Harriet Martineau photographers Armitt sisters 2,700 Collingwood family 1,000 Books Local topics Owned/donated by Lake District personalities Charlotte Mason Collection 8,000 Astley Green Colliery Museum † - Tyldesley Barrow in Furness Museums Service *† Dock Museum

The Collected Collections Page 245 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Beacon, The *† - Playbills Original photos & Only those relating to Whitehaven Printed ephemera postcards 2,893 objects in the collection. 1,360 Active programme of All other archives passed recording area to CRO photographically inc copying orig photos and images - 35mm negs 5,500 Blackburn Museum & Kathleen Ferrier archive Art Gallery *† Lewis Textile Museum

The Collected Collections Page 246 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Boat Museum *† - Photographic material 15,000 Company Records & Ellesmere Port Video 100 private collections Film 50 Plans ) Maps ) 1,250 Registers ) Documents ) 6,400 Periodicals 5,300 Books 2,540 Bolton Museums & Photographs 2,500 Archaeology AG *† Negativess 250 Egyptology Central Museum, Lantern Slides 200 Natural History Art Gallery & Microphotos & slides of Aquarium textiles Hall i'th' Wood Picture postcards 300 Smithills Hall Local History Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum (closed - colls in store '93)

The Collected Collections Page 247 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Bury Art Gallery and Museum Carlisle City Museums Re Social history Re Social history Guildhall collections collections Museum Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Catalyst *† - Widnes Ephemera 500 Photos 800 Archives 500 Cheshire Military See Military History See Military History Museum *† Cheshire Museums Various material Salt industry & re Service *† - collection 1,000 Museum Services Landscape 4,500 Unit Industries etc Salt Museum † Stretton Watermill

The Collected Collections Page 248 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Chester Museums *† re collection Photos History of museum Grosvenor Glass negs service Museum re collection Heritage Centre King Charles Tower Water Tower Chorley Arts & Photos - topographical Chorley TSB Museums Service † Astley Hall documents Astley Hall Mus & AG Local history City of Liverpool Photographs re: Archives & documentary Croxteth Hall & Croxteth material re: Country Park *† The Sefton Croxteth family The Sefton family The collection The collection Approx Approx 100 800 Cumbria Police Museum *† - Penrith

The Collected Collections Page 249 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & Manuscripts Wordsworth Museum Verse & prose by -

William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas De Quincey 30,000+ Letters of - William Wordsworth) Dorothy Wordsworth) 700 Coleridge De Quincey Robert Southey Sir George Beaumont Benjamin Robert Haydon Lord Byron Charles Lamb Mary Wordsworth archive

The Collected Collections Page 250 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & (continued) Wordsworth Museum Wordsworth family (continued) Financial papers Family letters Mary Hutchinson’s family papers

Papers of related families Calvert Coleridge Wordsworth Arnold Benson Spedding

Autograph collections inc. Mary Stanger Dora Wordsworth

Working papers of scholars inc. Ernest De Selincourt

The Collected Collections Page 251 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & (continued) Wordsworth Museum Working papers of (continued) scholars inc. Helen Darbishire Gordon Graham Wordsworth Mary Moorman James Dykes Campbell John Alban Finch Donald Sewell 6,000 Printed material (books & pamphlets Wordsworth’s own library Lifetime editions of Romantic period writers inc. Wordsworth De Quincey Coleridge Byron Shelley Keats

The Collected Collections Page 252 September 1998

*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & (continued) Wordsworth Museum Lifetime editions of (continued) Romantic period writers (continued) inc. Sir Walter Scott William Godwin Mary Wollstonecroft Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb Mary Lamb William Hazlitt Polidori Caroline Lamb Ann Radcliffe Felicia Hemans

The Collected Collections Page 253 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Dove Cottage & (continued) Wordsworth Museum Lake District guides & (continued) assoc works 1750 to date inc illustrated books of Farington Gilpin Green Wilkinson Magazines/periodicals 1750-1850 C20 critical journals

Critical & reference works Englesea Brook Chapel Posters more than Photos Letters & Museum of Primitive Cards 150 People Chapel Deeds Methodism *† - Crewe Certificates (but not Places 20 Circuit Plans all listed) Events 73

The Collected Collections Page 254 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Fusiliers Museum Photographs re the Items re the Regiment & Lancashire, The *† - Bury Regiment & its history its history Official records Written accounts Documents Pay books Letters/postcards Greater Manchester re Police No figs - Photos B&W, colour Police official records Police Museum *† grouped Negatives glass, film 400 Feet with Transparencies glass, Photogra film phic Film reel Video 9,000 to 10,000 Grundy Art Gallery † - Blackpool Harris Museum & Art Photos B&W Items relating to the Gallery *† - Preston Albums history of the Museum Glass negativess 12,500 Haworth Art Gallery - Accrington

The Collected Collections Page 255 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Heritage Trust for the see Social History see Social History see Social History North West † (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper see Industrial History see Industrial History see Industrial History Museum *† - Milnthorpe Lake District Art Gallery Museum of Lakeland Life Museum of Lakeland Museum of Lakeland Life & Museum Trust *† & Industry - Life & Industry - & Industry - Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal Ephemera Photography Local authors inc. Kendal Museum Advertising Cameras Arthur Ransome of Natural Packaging Glass negatives John Cunliffe History & Greetings cards Slides & 300 Archaeology photographs 50 Archival material (in Museum of Collections from 7 Lake conjunction with Lakeland Life & District photographers Cumbria Record Office) Industry - Kendal Abraham collection

The Collected Collections Page 256 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Lancashire County Given or loaned to CRO Museum Service or other recognised RO Judges' Lodgings † - Lancaster Fleetwood Museum † County & Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower † - Bolton Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale

The Collected Collections Page 257 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Lancaster City Ephemera (inc 750 all re local area Museum s*† contemporary examples) Prints +3,000 Lancaster Negatives +5,000 Museum *† Re Maritime collection 1,000 Lantern slides 100 Lancaster Transparencies Maritime Movie film) Museum *† Video ) 50 Cottage Museum Maritime Roman Bath Prints 1,000 House Negatives 1,000 St. Patrick's Lantern slides 60 Chapel - Transparencies 1,000 Heysham Movie film 10 Town Hall Collections Video 12 Littleborough Museum Deeds Wills Testaments Indentures Parish records Educational material Books Maps & plans

The Collected Collections Page 258 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums see Archives see Archives Silk Museum - Trust † Macclesfield Silk Archival Museum Newspapers Paradise Mill Maps West Park Photographs Museum & Art Printed ephemera Gallery Company records

Research Files re The Mills & Dyehouse Survey The Garret Survey The Church & Sunday School Survey Photographic Survey of the Retail Area

The Collected Collections Page 259 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Macclesfield Museums (continued) Trust † Macclesfield Silk Reference Library Museum re silk industry & history Paradise Mill of Macclesfield West Park Books Museum & Art Pamphlets Gallery Journals Primary material (continued) Manchester City Art Galleries *† Athenaeum City Art Gallery Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Platt Hall Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish re core collection see Soc Original Photographs Documents Museum *† Hist Copy photographs Oral History re core coll see Soc Hist re core coll see Soc Hist

The Collected Collections Page 260 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Manchester Transport Museum - Heaton Park, Manchester Manx National Manx Museum - Manx Museum - Manx Museum - Heritage *† Castle Rushen Ephemera collection held by Archives & held by Archives & Laxey Wheel & Library Library Lead Mines Manx Museum Peel Castle & Odin's Raven St Mary's Chapel, the Old Grammar School - Castletown Museum of Science & Relating to science & Relating to science & Industry *† - Manchester industry in Greater industry in Greater Manchester Manchester

Prints Business records 600 Negatives 3.5 million Nat archive of electricity 1 industry Films 435 Nat book & paper sample 1 collection

The Collected Collections Page 261 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Museum of the King's Ephemera re the Regiment +1,000 Photographs +10,000 re Regiment official & Own Royal Regiment *† & its history Albums 40 personal material such as 5,000 - Lancaster Negs 900 diaries Slides B&W, colour 500 Oral history recordings 30 Nantwich Museum Postcards Photographs Books Programmes Local Directories & Guides Documents Receipts Maps National Museum of re working class life & Prints Labour party archive Labour History † - institutions Slides European Parliament Manchester Negs Labour Party papers Pump House 70,000 Communist Party of GB archive Socialist Sunday Schools collection Chile Solidarity Campaign archive

The Collected Collections Page 262 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items National Museums Botany - held within the Aerial photographs see Maritime archives Galleries Merseyside *† Dallman archive 12,000 archaeology archives large number Liverpool Museum Photographs in the Records held by the Walker Art Botany collection +7,000 Environmental Record Gallery Centre 42,000 Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Oratory Maritime Museum Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Museum Norton Priory Museum *† Oldham Museums see Social History see Social History Local studies archives re Oldham Museum Archives & Fine Art history of Oldham Oldham Art Books Gallery Pamphlets Photographs Documents Penrith Museum *† Photographs 293 Archives 700

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*Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Peter Scott Gallery *† - Lancaster University Quarry Bank Mill Queen's Lancashire see Archives see Archives Gen Military ref library Regiment Museum *† - Regimental libraries Preston Military pamphlet library Maps Postcards Newspapers Photographs Scrapbooks Magazines Army Lists Personal diaries War diaries Personal papers 3,000 Ravenglass Railway Museum

The Collected Collections Page 264 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Regimental Museum of Albums 50 Regimental official the Border Regiment & Photos 10,000 records & personal Kings Own Border Negs, glass, celluloid, records such as diaries - Regiment - Carlisle 35mm, 5x4 negs extensive Slides colour & B&W 1,000 Cine film Video Ribchester Roman Museum Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery † Rochdale Pioneers relating to Pioneers & relating to Pioneers & relating to Pioneers & Museum *† Co-op Movement Co-op Movement Co-op Movement Rossendale Museum *† re rest of the collection 800 re rest of the collection 1,000 re rest of the collection 800 Ruskin Museum *† - by & about JR, Coniston, JR & friends Books, pamphlets, Coniston geology, local history see Architecture periodicals Archives Donald Campbell by & about JR, Coniston, Local history geology, local history 580 700

The Collected Collections Page 265 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Saddleworth Museum & Programmes Figure Photographs 1,000 Deeds Art Gallery *† Tickets included Wills Posters in Mill records etc Archives Parish records Ephemera 5,000 Salford Museums & Art see Social History & see Social History & Family Records Galleries *† Industrial History Industrial History Lancashire William Salter Mycock Mining Museum Archive (Royal Ordsall Hall Lancastrian Pottery) Museum Salford Museum L S Lowry Archive & Art Gallery Mining Archive

The Collected Collections Page 266 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Sefton Museums *† Botanic Gardens Museum see Social History & Atkinson Art Military Gallery - Tickets Southport Bills Bootle Free Receipts Museum & Art Newspapers Gallery Magazines Collections Posters (museum closed) Botanic Gardens see Social History Museum - Southport Senhouse Roman Museum South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre † - Leyland St. Helens Museum & Ephemera & books re 1,473 Photographs 353 Art Gallery *† collections

The Collected Collections Page 267 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Stockport Heritage Greetings cards 700 Prints Court Leet book Services *† Cinema & theatre posters Negatives Burial societies Stockport Bookmarks 120 Cased photos Tithe maps Museum Adverts Cartes-de-visite Wage books Bramall Hall Tickets Albums Thornton Pickard Lyme Hall Archive (photographic Stockport Art co.) Gallery Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel Tameside Museum Service Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Museum of the Manchesters † Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 268 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Towneley Hall Art Listed with Photographs & Prints, carte-de-visite to Manuscript Gallery & Museums *† - Archives by museum modern Printed Burnley Negatives, glass Towneley Hall Postcards Museum of Local Crafts & Industries Natural History Centre & Aquarium University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections *† Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

The Collected Collections Page 269 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items University of Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery Jodrell Bank Science Centre see Decorative Art see Decorative Art Tabley House The Manchester Museum Whitworth Art Gallery Warrington Museum & Inc. Public notices Photographic archive To be listed Art Gallery *† Greetings cards c. 6,500 originals form c.100 the primary collection inc. Glass negatives Ambrotypes Lantern slides Daguerrotypes Tintypes Sheet film negs Roll film negs Transparencies Cine film Calotypes Postcards

The Collected Collections Page 270 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Warrington Museum & Photographic archive Art Gallery *† (continued) Monochrome (continued) prints Colour prints Various processes Photographers inc. Thomas Davies John Longshaw Samuel Mather Webster William Fell Thomas Birtles Walter Crompton James Parkinson J E Birtles Oswald Garside Secondary collection inc. photographic copies of social history interest c.40,000 Weaver's Triangle Leaflets Photographs Manuscripts Visitor Centre Posters Books

The Collected Collections Page 271 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Wigan Heritage Service Collection related only relating to Wigan Pier ephemera collections Heritage Centre e.g. engineering drawings Hindley Museum Other archives & Powell Gallery photographs held by Trencherfield Local History & Archive Mill collections History Shop Windermere Steamboat Ephemera re the collection re the collection, see Re items in the collection Museum *† see Transport History & Transport History & see Transport History & Social History Social History Social History Various formats inc. Glass plates 10,000 Archives Transparencies Library Prints Negatives 10,000

The Collected Collections Page 272 September 1998 *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Ephemera No of Photographic No of Archives No of Items Items Items Wirral Museum & Art re collections re collections Gallery Services - Birkenhead Williamson Art Gallery & Museum Birkenhead Priory St Mary's Tower Shore Road Pumping Station Woodside Visitor Centre

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What is being Collected ? Current Collecting

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What is being Collected? - Current Collecting

Information on current collecting activities in the region is based on the responses to question 4 on the survey questionnaire

••• Are you currently conducting - or have you recently completed - any special collecting projects (e.g. contemporary collecting)?

••• If so could you please detail what these are and what is your objective in carrying them out. and also on question 8 of the survey questionnaire

••• What specific items, groups of objects etc. are you actively seeking to add to your collections?

In answer to question 4, special collecting projects were named by 30 Museum Services. In some cases this included projects from more than one museum department.

45 museum services listed specific items, groups of items or selected subject areas in which they were actively seeking to add to existing collections.

Full details of special collecting projects and items actively being sought are given in the tables.

The main objectives given for special collecting projects are as follows

• For a specific temporary or permanent exhibition.

• To fill gaps identified within the collections.

• To extend and add to the strengths of existing collections.

• To collect contemporary material - to bring collections up to date.

• To acquire provenanced material.

• To build a research or reference collection.

• To make collections relevant to the contemporary communities which they serve.

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Most of the reasons given for special collecting projects apply equally to items being targeted for active collecting. The exception to this appears to be collecting for exhibition purposes; this is an objective more readily associated with special collecting projects. Active collecting, from the evidence provided, appears to be more long term in nature and concerned with consolidating and developing existing collections.

A number of Museum Services were neither involved in special collecting projects nor actively collecting. Not all gave their reasons. Those that did gave their reasons as follows:

• Due to vacant curatorial posts.

• Collecting suspended pending collection audits or cataloguing of the collection.

• Collecting suspended pending review of collecting policy and/or collection management plan.

• Due to lack of knowledge on existing collections - lack of documentation.

• Storage problems - insufficient space or inadequate storage.

• Due to lack of financial resources.

• Awaiting go-ahead for expansion/new development.

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NW Federation Collections Survey Current/Recent Special Collecting Projects and their Objectives and Specific Items Being Actively Sought Identified from Questionnaires

Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Allerdale Borough Museums Helena Thompson Museum & Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Helena Thompson Maryport Maritime Museum - Museum - Workington Do not actively seek any - due to Keswick Museum & Art Not collecting at all - Curatorial lack of documentation, knowledge Gallery post vacant at time of survey on current collections, no money & Maryport Maritime (applies to both museums) space restrictions Museum Keswick Museum & Art Gallery

No

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Armitt Trust Museum & Library - The Trust has an acquisition Anything which relates to the major Ambleside policy and is constantly seeking collections eg items connected to major areas Herbert Bell of the collection Ruskin Beatrix Potter Harriet Martineau Local history Filling gaps in magazine sequences eg The Gentleman’s Magazine Developing collections re local contemporary Astley Green Colliery Museum - Steam Engines & associated Tyldesley equipment Coal Mining equipment Barrow-in-Furness Museum Personal items to complement the Service vessel and ‘humanise’ the maritime Dock Museum history and traditions of Barrow

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Beacon, The - Whitehaven Active collecting suspended Hoping to actively seek once April 1995, pending full catalogue complete - cataloguing of the collection Whitehaven & Copeland related material Local art Marine art Local archaeology Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery Over the past eight to ten years - To make sure that a Victorian Material relating to the Asian Lewis Textile Museum museum is relevant to its community in Blackburn Active collecting of material contemporary communities. relating to the Asian community Local History - Blackburn & in Blackburn Darwen

Will continue to collect to reflect Fine Art the changing communities in By Asian artists or Blackburn reflecting the Asian community Contemporary works, especially by local artists Boat Museum - Ellesmere Port No in general, but about to begin None in particular oral history project with other members of Inland Waterways Heritage Network

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Bolton Museums & Art Gallery Oral history recording - Oral history - objective of Oral history relating to displays Central Museum, Art reminiscences providing taped commentary for Gallery & Aquarium display purposes Considering contemporary Hall i'th' Wood collecting in ethnic minority Smithills Hall Considering contemporary Long term aim of representation communities Local History Museum collection of ethnic minority of non British culture in the (closed - colls in store '93) communities, principally for the Social History collections Tonge Moor Textile Indian Sub Continent Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Brantwood - Coniston Collecting Policies & Collection Ruskin related - Management Plan under review Paintings as part of collection soon to be Letters on loan to Lancaster University, Books at the New Ruskin Library Manuscripts Catalyst - Widnes Collected items for 2 recent Items collected for permanent Items connected to any Halton area permanent exhibitions exhibitions chemical companies & associated 'Birth of an Industry' industries 'Chemicals for Life' Local history with significance to the chemical industry Cheshire Military Museum Always collecting, most recent Nothing specific Bosnian war artefacts Malayan emergency memorabilia

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Cheshire Museums Service - Football material An exhibition of football in Rural life/agriculture/folk life etc Museum Services Unit Mid-Cheshire revealed how Salt Museum little relevant material currently Fine art Stretton Watermill held in museums locally & Oils further afield. Attempting to Watercolours with keep together & eventually topographical themes etc accession items loaned for the exhibition Anything consistent with the Collecting Policy Chester Museums Service Commissioning local artists to To update strong topographical Grosvenor Museum produce views of Chester Urban holdings with views of Heritage Centre Landscape - 3 year project buildings & streets not King Charles Tower completed 1996, new scheme previously represented. Also Water Tower launched 1997 for rural/district supports work of local artists views

Soc hist/contemporary collecting To acquire provenanced local - weddings - other focussed history material to reflect local projects such as childhood may lives follow in the next five years

Archaeological reconstruction To help illustrate to public how drawings/virtual reality information from digs and programmes - 5 to 10 year objects can be used to bring the programme past to life

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Chorley Arts & Museums Service None at this stage Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery City of Liverpool Items turned by Lady Gertrude Croxteth Hall & Country Crawford Park Items with Sefton provenance Agricultural Horticultural Decorative art Fine art Social history Photographs Archives Cumbria Police Museum - Penrith Cumbrian Murder files 1920- Some for display Anything relating to the museum 1980 Majority for future research objectives purposes Englesea Brook Chapel & No No 'shopping list'. Most casual Museum of Primitive Methodism finds offered to the Museum by - Crewe people interested in preserving the movement’s heritage Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The No Items relating to the Regiment, its - Bury antecedents & affiliations - full details of these in Collecting & Collection Management Policy

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Greater Manchester Police Gen contemporary collecting C19 Police uniform & equipment Museum - Manchester Including copies of info released to press & media as reference material Current & obsolete items of uniform & equipment are collected on rolling programmes Grundy Art Gallery - Blackpool No Storage problem too dire Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Contemporary Art Society To enable the purchase of Scent bottles Preston Purchase Scheme - in 1985 contemporary art by C18 - porcelain, glass, Harris entered partnership with pre-eminent British artists enamel Contemp Art Soc to acquire new 1920 onwards - commercial works for Fine art coll - Works intended to build on & bottles Additional grant aid from Arts extend the range of themes Avant garde British art, 1920s & Council, Granada Foundation, already present in the historical later MGC/V&A purchase fund collection, inc Due to success extended from Landscape Industrially designed British 1990 to 1997 The classical tradition ceramics, C20 Narrative art Portraiture Devis family paintings

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Heritage Trust for the North West No Architectural features/building (Pendle Heritage Centre) materials

Objects relating to building conservation Heron Corn Mill & Paper No Museum of Papermaking Museum - Milnthorpe Items relating to papermaking & former papermills inc Print books Small hand tools e.g. moulds Examples of watermarks Account books Documents

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Heron Corn Mill & Paper No (continued) Museum - Milnthorpe Heron Corn Mill (continued) Items re milling or corn watermills inc Hand tools for stone dressing Mill wright tools Corn sacks with trade names Flat belts to run machinery Books Prints Photographs Maps Plans Stock books Posters of mill sales Mill auction details

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Lake District Art Gallery & C20 art C20 art Museum Trust Contemporary art Contemporary art, especially Abbot Hall Art Gallery - portraiture Kendal Kendal Museum of Natural History & Archaeology Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal Lancashire County Museum Judges' Lodgings Judges Lodgings Service Preparing a project of collecting Items relating to the story of Judges' Lodgings - contemporary Lancashire Lancashire Lancaster portraits Fleetwood Museum Fleetwood Museum (Nat Hist) County & Regimental Fleetwood Museum (Nat Hist) Lancashire specimens with data Museum - Preston No High quality display specimens Turton Tower - Bolton Handling material Helmshore Textile Turton Tower Dorothy Horsfall collection Museums - Rossendale Dorothy Horsfall Collection of housed & curated at Turton Turton Tower Clitheroe Castle straw & corn crafts Tower - likely also to tour other Liberty & Co style pewter - branches of the service Library furniture Burnley C16/C17 table dressers Early blue & white delftware

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Lancaster City Museums City Museum Lancaster Museum Evidence of industrial history Lancaster Maritime previously uncollected e.g. Museum Linoleum Cottage Museum Rayon production Roman Bath House Engineering works St. Patrick's Chapel - WWI Heysham Internment of aliens & Town Hall Collections conscientious objectors Contemporary collecting Esp ephemera - local bias, issue based such as Greenpeace/Friends of the Earth

Maritime Museum Railway/holiday publicity posters (early C20) relevant to Lancaster district Photographic items (esp postcards) of local ports & shipping

Lancaster maritime related items of worth - actively seek info from salerooms & bid for items

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Macclesfield Museums Macclesfield silk related objects Macclesfield Silk Museum C18 costume - in silk Paradise Mill Modern silks West Park Museum & Art Gallery Manchester City Art Galleries Contemporary collecting To keep the collections up to Post-war & contemporary Athenaeum Fine art date Paintings City Art Gallery Decorative art Sculpture Fletcher Moss To gather material which will Works on paper Heaton Hall be used in a proposed C20 Ceramics Platt Hall gallery in our extension Glass Queen's Park Art Gallery Metalwork Wythenshawe Hall Furniture

Post-war Fashion Manchester Jewish Museum No Material connected with the Holocaust and belonging to survivors - plan to build an extension which would house a Holocaust Education Centre

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Manx National Heritage Internment Project - 1994 Few items previously in Knox material Castle Rushen WWI & WWII Isle of Man used collection - a temp exhibition Laxey Wheel & Lead as camp for 'enemy aliens' - Living with the Wire brought to Mines items re this & arts & crafts light a wealth of material which Manx Museum produced by internees loaned & sometimes donated Peel Castle & Odin's Raven TT Project - 1994 Fill a gap - minimal material on St Mary's Chapel, the Old Island host to TT motorcycle festival side of TT Grammar School - roadrace for 90 years - items re Castletown life beyond the races for visitors who flock to the island Interviews Photographs T-shirts Ephemera

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Museum of Science & Industry - First major contemporary Contemporary textile finishing Records relating to Factory Manchester collecting project completed in items for display in the Fibres, Communications 1997 - Material re contemporary Fabric and Fashion Gallery - textile finishing industries in opened 1997. Objective to See also Special Collecting Projects Manchester area represent aspects of the textile & Project Objectives industry which were under- represented in the existing collections. This was prompted by appraisal of the existing collections & audience research. Evident that passive collecting had produced collections that were uneven in terms of period coverage and types of object, and tended to lack a human/personal dimension. Audience research suggested that people find it easier to relate to products than process machinery and to objects identified with good people- centred provenance. The textile collecting project was successful in addressing these issues.

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Museum of Science & Industry - (continued) (continued) Manchester 1997-98 pilot active collecting 1997-98 pilot active collecting (continued) projects identified projects identified to extend Communications benefits of active collecting to Food other areas of the collections. Electricity generation & supply Priorities determined by - Gallery development and need to develop strategies to address collecting in industries where scale of plant inhibits traditional collecting and encourages surrogate collecting through oral or video history Museum of the King's Own Royal Collection of personnel data of Nothing specific Regiment - Lancaster Regiment from ex-members Personal information Paperwork Photos National Museum of Labour No Papers of major politicians History - Manchester Pump House Banners

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Botany Botany Merseyside Plants of serpentine-derived soils To study metal accumulation & Algae from the Irish Sea & other Liverpool Museum in Morocco, Oman, the UAE & the taxonomy of serpentine coasts of British Isles Walker Art Gallery France endemics Lady Lever Art Gallery Taxa currently unrepresented or Sudley House Fungi of NW England To prepare freeze-dried voucher poorly represented in British & Oratory specimens for taxonomic Irish angiosperm herbarium - Maritime Museum validation of fungi survey 'Orphaned collections' Museum of Liverpool Life Economic Botany records HM Customs & Excise filling gaps in coverage of plant- European phanerogams - Museum derived products used in food, To build up a comprehensive collections from active centres of medicines, industry, & other reference collection of timbers floristic research to acquire voucher human activities & other plant products material of taxonomically critical, rare & local plant groups Drift seeds found on the coasts To assist identification of public of Britain & Ireland enquiries & to support the Gymnosperms - referencing of Botanical Society species with economic uses of British Isles enquiries Lichens - which significantly add to the completeness of coverage of the British lists or where they are of specialist research interest

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Botany (continued) Merseyside Extra-European angiosperms - Liverpool Museum Non-European flowering plants will Walker Art Gallery focus on Lady Lever Art Gallery Australasia Sudley House Indian sub-continent Oratory N Africa Maritime Museum Voucher specimens of economic Museum of Liverpool Life plants collected for display or HM Customs & Excise reference Museum Timbers Species of commercial (continued) significance Species in cultivation in Britain Photographs Relating to existing plant coll or taken in areas from which colls originated Economic Botany Plant materials used in diverse human cultures worldwide Plants with newly discovered economic properties

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Botany (continued) Merseyside Seeds Liverpool Museum European wild plants Walker Art Gallery Crop plants Lady Lever Art Gallery Weeds Sudley House Maritime drift seeds Oratory Species encountered in Maritime Museum archaeological deposits Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise Archives Museum Manuscripts of Floras Naturalists' notebooks (continued) Other botanical survey documents which contain well-verified summary information

Prints & drawings Horticultural value Species which are rare & endangered in the wild

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Botany (continued) Merseyside Library Liverpool Museum Botanical monographs of N Walker Art Gallery temperate families & genera Lady Lever Art Gallery Illustrated works esp with Sudley House economically important or Oratory horticulturally important Maritime Museum plants Museum of Liverpool Life Reference works HM Customs & Excise Dictionaries Museum Wild flower guides Atlases (continued) Books by botanists whose plants in coll

Zoology Skins Bird Mammal

Bird eggs Data rich collections Modern eggs taken during scientific research

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Zoology (continued) Merseyside European osteology Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery African Lady Lever Art Gallery Amphibia Sudley House Reptiles Oratory Maritime Museum British mounted & modelled Museum of Liverpool Life vertebrates as yet unrepresented in HM Customs & Excise the coll & red data book rare & Museum endangered species Vertebrate tissue (continued) Wild, rare & endangered species in international context Voucher material from research at NMGM or neighbouring institutions Entomology Palaearctic species generally, inc immature stages (except prob non- local British macro-lepidoptera adults)

Marine invertebrates Voucher material from onshore & estuarine Liverpool Sea Bay Area

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art Fine & Decorative Art Merseyside Not a special project but ongoing Paintings Liverpool Museum - certain amount of acquisitions Major works by imp artists Walker Art Gallery funds for contemporary work or works illustrative of imp Lady Lever Art Gallery Fine art art movements Sudley House Decorative art Recent & contemporary art Oratory follows discussion of contemp Maritime Museum collecting at Board of Trustees Sculpture Museum of Liverpool Life Major works by imp artists HM Customs & Excise or works illustrative of imp Museum art movements Recent & contemporary art (continued) Prints, drawings & photographs Major works by imp artists or works illustrative of imp art movements Recent & contemporary art

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art (continued) Merseyside Ceramics Liverpool Museum Porcelain from 1st decade Walker Art Gallery of prod in Liverpool 1755- Lady Lever Art Gallery 65 Sudley House Representative key pieces in Oratory all materials by innovative Maritime Museum designers & makers after Museum of Liverpool Life c.1830, inc Continental HM Customs & Excise Europe & American work Museum which has significantly influenced British practice (continued) Glass Representative key pieces in all materials by innovative designers & makers after c.1830, inc Continental Europe & American work which has significantly influenced British practice

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art (continued) Merseyside Metalwork Liverpool Museum Representative key pieces in Walker Art Gallery all materials by innovative Lady Lever Art Gallery designers & makers after Sudley House c.1830, inc Continental Oratory Europe & American work Maritime Museum which has significantly Museum of Liverpool Life influenced British practice HM Customs & Excise Museum Textiles Representative key pieces in (continued) all materials by innovative designers & makers after c.1830, inc Continental Europe & American work which has significantly influenced British practice

Dolls & toys Contemporary items

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art (continued) Merseyside Furniture Liverpool Museum For Walker dec art displays Walker Art Gallery - representative key pieces Lady Lever Art Gallery in all materials by Sudley House innovative designers & Oratory makers after c.1830, inc Maritime Museum Continental Europe & Museum of Liverpool Life American work which has HM Customs & Excise significantly influenced Museum British practice

(continued) For Walker pic galls - Baroque British Neo-classical by leading designers Continental European Neo- classical C19 innovative British by leading designers

For Sudley House - Late Victorian 'Aesthetic Movement' esp by leading designers

Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought

The Collected Collections Page 300 September 1998 National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art (continued) Merseyside Costume Liverpool Museum Women's - C18 underwear Walker Art Gallery & shoes Lady Lever Art Gallery Men's - C18 & C19 Sudley House informal dress & underwear Oratory Children's - dress before Maritime Museum 1850 Museum of Liverpool Life Costume since 1950 HM Customs & Excise Costume by innovative C20 Museum designers

(continued) Horology Local made Pre-1800 turret clocks C17 lantern clocks Longcase & spring clocks 1670-1750 Electrically powered clocks Pre-1750 watches by specific makers Pre-1850 chronometers & chronometer watches

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Fine & Decorative Art (continued) Merseyside Horology (continued) Liverpool Museum British non-local Walker Art Gallery Turret clock 1700-1850 Lady Lever Art Gallery Pendulum clock 1660-1700 Sudley House Early C18 London regulator Oratory Watch by specific maker Maritime Museum Boxed chronometer by Museum of Liverpool Life specific maker HM Customs & Excise Museum Non-British American clocks (continued) Watches & tools which show the development of the types which replaced Lancs products in the C19 Chronometers Regulator by specific maker

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Archaeology & Ethnology Archaeology & Ethnology Merseyside No Merseyside & NW regional Liverpool Museum archaeology Walker Art Gallery Material evidence of all periods- Lady Lever Art Gallery specifically Sudley House Prehistoric Oratory Roman Maritime Museum Post-Medieval Museum of Liverpool Life HM Customs & Excise British antiquities (National) - Museum provenanced excavated material from all periods (continued) Numismatics Local & para-numismatic material Early Medieval coins from the mint

Egyptian antiquities Sculpture Jewellery Bronze work

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Archaeology & Ethnology Merseyside (continued) Liverpool Museum NE antiquities Walker Art Gallery Sculpture Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Classical antiquities Oratory Greek ceramics from named Maritime Museum potters Museum of Liverpool Life Roman & Greek silver & HM Customs & Excise gold plate Museum Roman glass Classical sculpture from (continued) English country houses Etruscan jewellery

Africa Islamic material from N Africa & Ethiopia Build on existing strengths of western coastal socs of Africa

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Archaeology & Ethnology Merseyside (continued) Liverpool Museum Central, S America, Pre-Columbian Walker Art Gallery Mixtec lapidary Lady Lever Art Gallery Metalwork Sudley House Pottery Oratory Chilean border excavated Maritime Museum material Museum of Liverpool Life Mayan early classical HM Customs & Excise ceramics Museum Belize/Yucatan archaeology

(continued) Central & S America ethnography Indian material from Rain Forests Recent Caribbean & mainland material

N America NW coast America Great Lakes Woodland cultures

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought National Museums & Galleries on Archaeology & Ethnology Merseyside (continued) Liverpool Museum Oceania Walker Art Gallery Early documented Maori & Lady Lever Art Gallery Aboriginal cultures Sudley House Oratory Oriental collections Maritime Museum Islamic pottery to fill gaps Museum of Liverpool Life Well-documented HM Customs & Excise Himalayan Museum Early Chinese ceramics & metalwork (continued) Chinese lacquer work SE Asian shadow puppets C19 China trade, esp metalwork reflecting Liverpool links

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Norton Priory Museum The Trust commissions site- To rekindle the atmosphere of Items relating to the specific art (e.g. sculpture which creativity which existed at post-dissolution history of Norton it sites in its gardens) Norton Priory when the canons Priory (esp photographs & prints) commissioned artists & craftspeople to decorate their Contemporary art (see previous church columns)

The Trust collects works by As a way of continuing to Items relating to Halton Castle contemporary artists recording document the site's history the site as it is at present Penrith Museum N/A N/A Peter Scott Gallery - Lancaster No Artists’ original prints University Queen's Lancashire Regiment Weapons To illustrate the development of Collecting Policy not specific but Museum - Preston infantry sidearms from the intend to fill gaps when identified musket to the assault rifle - in the numerous collections, from there were gaps in the collection weapons to clothing to written - most now filled - source for material etc the remainder identified

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery Art Gallery Don't have acquisitions budget so all collecting is passive Rochdale Pioneers Museum Archive of documents & To provide complete record of Artefacts & documents relating artefacts relating to the 1994 the celebrations including directly to the history of the celebrations of the 150th preparations, for use by future Rochdale Pioneers or illustrative of anniversary of The Rochdale researchers their activities Pioneers Documents & other historical items relating to the Co-operative movement in general Rossendale Museum Specific groups/items not yet identified - gen areas of interest set out in Collecting Policy as follows -

Fine art Re strengths of coll Works by local artists (born, working or strong connections with area) in all media Topographical works Wallpaper samples, where relevant to existing collection

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Rossendale Museum Ceramics Gaps in ceramic types (continued) Re strengths of coll e.g. earthenware, slipware & stoneware

Glassware C18 & early C19 tableware & drinking glasses C19 decorative glassware for display Reflecting different decorative techniques/styles of C18/C19 glass Mineral water bottles with local connection

Furniture complementing the coll of C17 to C19 furniture Complementing the late Victorian drawing room

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Rossendale Museum Metalware Drinking vessels, tableware (continued) & assoc household items Civic collections

Archaeology Excavated & surface finds from locality

Costume & Textiles To complement existing colls To fit into displays

Numismatics British & Irish coins & tokens to fill gaps

Social history Local connection To complement existing displays To complement & expand school loans service

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Rossendale Museum Archives Relating to existing colls esp (continued) The Hardman family, Oak Hill & the Museum Businesses, associations (esp to the Whitehead group of companies) The Whitehead family Social history colls Ruskin Museum - Coniston Raising funds for development & Collecting for new displays Mineral/geological specimens to expansion - if successful will be illustrate the text-book geology of actively collecting for some of the Coniston fells (with the help of new displays- the British Geological Survey)

Geology (with aid of British Geological Survey

Local Social History esp Mining Quarrying Sheep husbandry Farming Local vernacular architecture Local vernacular furniture

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Ruskin Museum - Coniston Local topographical/picturesque Tools/implements/bygones re the (continued) views following in Coniston Parish Sheep husbandry Intend to commission Farming artist/craftsmen to contribute to Coppice trades & woodland landscaping of Museum grounds industries & car park, design of signage & Slate quarrying design of some interior features Copper mining Furness railway and the following in general The lake as highway & fishery Langdale linen industry Coniston School of Wood Carving Vernacular farmhouses:architecture & contents

Ruskin material

Items connected with Arthur Ransome/Swallows & Amazons

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Saddleworth Museum & Art Local material esp community To make life easier for Anything with clear Saddleworth Gallery events e.g. successors by ensuring there is a provenance Brass band concerts representative & relevant Rushcart Festival collection of Saddleworth By-election 1995 material already collected & not Products of local textile dependent on the whims of fate companies (they may disagree)

Request objs & info via press releases & leaflets for temp exhibs - either collect or record whereabouts of objects Recent examples Saddleworth villages Music Textile industry

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Salford Museums & Art Galleries Lancashire Mining Museum Lancashire Mining Museum Lancashire Mining No Works of art on mining or mining Museum related themes Ordsall Hall Museum Salford Museum &Art Gallery Salford Museum & Art Making a concerted effort to To secure study material for Coal mining related items from Gallery identify, copy & collect material future researchers known former NW collieries re the artist L.S. Lowry (1887- Objects 1976) Books Periodicals Maps Plans Photographs

Salford Museum & Art Gallery Collecting in general very low key See Collections Policy (copy not received for this project)

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Sefton Museums Atkinson Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery Atkinson Art Gallery - Contemporary prints To provide support for specific Items with specific local Southport Lino print room at gallery significance Bootle Free Museum & Intaglio Paintings Art Gallery Collections Screen Drawings (museum closed) etc Sculpture Botanic Gardens Museum Includes collecting a Letterpress For use in workshops on the - Southport Columbian machine subject Works by artists associated with New English Art Club Contemporary decorative art inc To support existing collections Bloomsbury Glass Ceramics All the above collections will 'Progressive' British painting & Metal enable the variety & diversity of drawing c1940 onwards contemporary visual arts to be Contemporary sculpture examined within the gallery Contemporary British sculpture Wood Metal Some material will be used for Contemporary printwork Stone workshops with local schools & Contemporary decorative art & colleges crafts Glass Metals Ceramics Textiles

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Sefton Museums Botanic Gardens Museum Botanic Gardens Museum Atkinson Art Gallery - No Items with specific local history Southport significance Bootle Free Museum & Artefacts Art Gallery Collections Paintings (museum closed) Drawings Botanic Gardens Museum Sculpture - Southport Artefacts to support the interpretation of the locality in the (continued) wider context Costume inc accessories c1755 +

Decorative art esp Liverpool porcelain Victoriana Toys c1755 onwards

Local industry Shrimping Fishing Thatching Agriculture Tourism Technology re local industry i.e Vulcan car Telecommunications Coins & tokens

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought South Ribble Museum & Photographic materials relating For exhibition Local Industry Exhibition Centre - Leyland to the Leyland Motors Co To develop this aspect of the collection St Helens Museum & Art Gallery No Local history re glass industry

Beechams items

Items re Doulton (St Helens)

Archaeology (local)

Rainhill Trials items

Coal mining items from area St Helens Transport Museum Temporarily closed due to Local operators serious defect in Museum roof Timetables Tickets Closed to public & all exhibs suspended pending outcome of Lottery application

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Stockport Heritage Services Oral history projects For research & interpretation Hatting items Stockport Museum Stockport's hatting ind Bramall Hall Stockport's town centre WWII 'Home front' items Lyme Hall air raid shelter site Stockport Art Gallery Items originally from Bramall Hall Hatting Museum or with links to Davenport family Stockport Air Raid Shelters Relevant local history Chadkirk Chapel Tameside Museum Service Museum of the Manchesters Museum of the Manchesters Astley Cheetham Art No Items re the regimental history of Gallery - Stalybridge the Manchester Regiment Museum of the Manchesters - Ashton-u- Lyne Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum & Art Gallery Museum & Art Gallery Museum & Art Gallery Museums - Burnley Part of the Lancashire Crafts Regional furniture esp C17 oak Towneley Hall Contemporary Studio Pottery Scheme - each mus collects a Museum of Local Crafts & different craft which can then be Paintings Industries circulated as loan exhibs & By artists with a Burnley Natural History Centre & promoted within the county - connection Aquarium Previously a Crafts Officer ran Of NE Lancashire the scheme - due to cuts the post is now vacant Items connected with Burnley's history inc Textile items Photographs Museum & Art Gallery Fine art collections Museum & Art Gallery No Fine art collections Works by contemporary regional artists esp with Burnley links

Occasionally items relating closely to works in the collection

Works by local artists

Works re Towneley and the Towneley family

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Museum Special Collecting Projects Project Objective Items Being Actively Sought University of Liverpool No Work by artists related to the Art Gallery & Collections University or Liverpool or work Museum of Archaeology which has significant connections & Oriental Studies with the above via the Museum of Dentistry collector/donor

Warrington Museum & Art Begun to collect a series of Collecting designer/maker Decorative art Gallery designer/maker craftworks craftworks result of being Slipware involved in a craft networking Early stoneware arrangement over a number of Local glass years, designed to highlight the Local ceramics importance of craft as an art form. There are very few Fine art contemporary art works in the Luke Fildes collections here, and craft works James Charles still often more reasonably Henry Woods priced than fine art items George Sheffield

Actively collecting Warrington - Plan to actively collect material industrial, local & social history relating to Warrington - in preparation for future industrial, local & social history - displays about the town and as a particularly of this century. means of documenting the town’s future Windermere Steamboat Museum No Feel this is confidential

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What isn’t being Collected ? Collections which are Closed or Under Review

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What Isn’t Being Collected?- Collections which are Closed or under Review

Information on closed collections, collecting agreements and collections under review for disposal or transfer was compiled from collecting policies, amended collection summaries and questionnaires.

Full details on closed collections, collecting agreements and collections under review for disposal or transfer is given under each museum service in the tables.

Summaries of collections which are closed or under review for transfer or disposal is given by collection field in Appendices IV & V .

In all aspects of collecting the introduction of Registration and the consequent requirement of having a collecting policy and collection management plan appears to have resulted in a more focused approach to collecting and existing collections. The re-assessment of objectives, collections and resources which compiling such documents involves, has resulted in a number of collections which have been completely or partly closed to further collecting. Likewise it has revealed collections or items for disposal or transfer.

The main reason or combination of reasons cited for closing collections partly or completely are as follows -

• Change in the museum's objectives - collection no longer relevant to the collecting policy (ethnographic collections particularly fall into this category)

• A focus on the importance of provenance, especially in social/local history collection - museums no longer collecting items from outside their immediate geographical or subject area.

• Size of objects, lack of space or inadequate storage to collect more - this is particularly so for collections which may contain larger items such as social or industrial history or decorative art furniture collections for example.

• No specialist curator to care for or interpret the collection - natural history, geology and ethnography collections especially fall into this category.

• Legal, safety or ethical considerations - collections such as firearms, edged weapons and ivories

• Duplication in existing collections

• Existing collections which are sufficiently representative or comprehensive.

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Not all collections which are whole or partly closed will remain in this situation on a permanent basis. Some collections are closed pending a collection audit, full documentation of the collection or re-assessment of the museum's objectives.

A collection which is whole or partly closed is not necessarily also being considered for disposal or transfer. Many of the collections closed for one or more of the reasons above are happily retained by museums, but will simply not be added to. It is true to say however that collections which are closed are more likely to be considered for disposal or transfer. The main reason or combination of reasons given by museums for considering disposals or transfers are as follows -

• Collections or items which are badly deteriorated or damaged.

• Collections or items which are of poor quality or poor examples of their type.

• Duplicated material.

• Collections which fall outside the existing collecting policy.

• Collections without a specialist curator to care for and interpret them.

In the North West many of the museums involved in this survey already appear to have negotiated transfers or loans of collections to appropriate museums. Some of the more recent transfers or long term loans appear in this data, however it is clear that fewer transfers than expected show up in some fields as the transfer has taken place some time ago.

With regards to agreements on collecting between museums it is difficult to assess the exact situation in the region from the information supplied. Although some museums clearly have consulted with and have agreements with named museums this is not always the case. Many simply list the museums which fall within their collecting area either geographically or by subject field.

Most museums claim to 'have due regard for the interests of other museums', 'undertake to consult with neighbouring museums' or recognise potential conflict with a named list of museums. Just how many are actually following these good intentions through with formal agreements cannot be assessed from the information provided. It is nevertheless heartening that more and more museums do appear to be aware of potential conflicts and to be intending to resolve them.

Currently, important collaborative work on identifying and rationalising textile industry collections is being carried out by the group of museums which make up the Northern Textile Industry Curators’ Group. There may well be other such fields identified through this and other recent surveys which could benefit from similar schemes.

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NW Federation Collections Survey

Collecting Areas which are Closed, Agreements with other Institutions, Items Considered for Disposal or Transfer/Loan to other Museums - From Collecting/Collection Management Policies & Questionnaires

•••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Allerdale Borough Helena Thompson Museum - Helena Thompson Museum - & Keswick Museum & Art Museums Maryport Maritime Museum - Gallery - Helena Thompson Ceramics - will not expand Museum •••† - collection of representative Take due account of & will None at present Workington styles & materials. NB Will consult with registered museums Keswick Museum & collect local items with collecting in same field esp. Art Gallery •••* † emphasis on utilitarian pottery Tullie House Museum - Maryport Maritime Carlisle Museum •••† Natural Sciences - Cased Copeland Borough specimens (unless with Museum Service significant local history links) Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Archaeology - with exception of - post medieval items which link Consultation & reciprocal to other collecting areas agreements will be sought for cases where a conflict is thought Furniture - collect for display to exist only, due to lack of space, or if important work by local person CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

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The Collected Collections Page 325 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Armitt Trust Museum & Take into account acquisition No disposals being considered Library •••* † - Ambleside policies of other relevant local museums & record offices Astley Green Colliery Local museums to contact in the None - Museum •••† - Tyldesley event of a disposal inc- Local museums to contact in Lancashire Mining Museum the event of a disposal inc- Wigan Heritage Service Lancashire Mining Museum Wigan Heritage Service Northern Mill Engine Soc Bolton Museum E Lancs Railway Northern Mill Engine Soc Mus Sc & Ind, Manchester E Lancs Railway The Boat Museum Mus Sc & Ind, Manchester The Boat Museum CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 326 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Barrow-in-Furness Museum Vessels - lack of resources for Documentary material - after Some long standing collections Service •••* † upkeep consulting CRO require stream-lining in Dock Museum Committed to collaboration with accordance with the stated aims Post War Industry (other than museums of potential overlap inc- of our collections management documentary material) until trad Millom Folk Museum plan ind coll consolidated Lake Dist AG & Museum Trust Agriculture Agriculture Allerdale Mus Service Tullie House Transport (excl Furness Rail) Transport (excl Rail) Lancaster Maritime Mus Nat Maritime Mus Firearms Firearms Science Museum Edged Weapons Edged Weapons Archaeology - outside Acq Nat. History Policy

Geology Fine Art - outside Acq Policy

Ethnography Nat. History

Ethnography CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 327 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Beacon, The •••* † - Whitehaven Blackburn Museum & Art Closed collections for over ten Considering Transfer - Gallery •••* † years - Lewis Textile Fielden Papers & Archive Museum Egyptology collections to Lancashire Furniture Record Office (transfer Horology completed) Ethnography Natural History Textile machinery Geology Printing machinery Closed from 1996 - Natural sciences collections Archaeology (natural history & geology) Numismatics (coins, medals, paper money) Stamps & postal covers CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 328 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan The Boat Museum - Merging collections & operating None - but the boat collection Ellesmere Port •••* † joint collecting & disposal policy is currently undergoing a with the National Waterways collections management review Museum Trust - together they to determine priorities for the constitute the National Collection future of objects relating to the inland and estuarial waterways of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Collected Collections Page 329 September 1998 Bolton Museums & Art Textile machinery - large items Undertake to consult with 101 Firearms, no other Gallery •••* † with one or two exceptions neighbouring museums who have Central Museum, Art published Coll Pol Gallery & Aquarium Local History - post medieval Hall i'th' Wood excavated, surface & sub- Museum reserves right to first Smithills Hall surface finds not collected choice of any type of museum Local History material collected within the Museum (closed - Bolton Met boundaries colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Relevant archival material passed Museum (closed - to Archives Dept in Library colls in store '93) Seeking to clarify formally relationship with Manchester Museum, NMGM & Lancashire County Mus Service - most likely area of overlap CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

•••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Brantwood † - Coniston Collecting & Collections Management policies under review - part of collection soon to be on loan to Lancaster University, at the New Ruskin Library

The Collected Collections Page 330 September 1998 Bury Art Gallery & Items of non-local provenance Acknowledge the collecting Museum ••• in the following areas - policies & consult with relevant institutions & groups on Costume & textiles particular collections esp. Geology Ethnography Gallery of English Costume - Natural history Manchester Archaeology (costume & textiles) Coal mining Bolton Museum & Art Gallery (geology, ethnography, The Museum will not collect natural history) items relating to the Lancashire The Manchester Museum Fusiliers Regiment (geology, ethnography, natural history, archaeology) CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 331 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Bury Art Gallery & (continued) Museum ••• Acknowledge the collecting (continued) policies & consult with relevant institutions & groups on particular collections (continued) esp. Bury Archaeological Group (archaeology) Salford Mining Museum (coal mining) Lancashire Fusiliers Regimental Museum (Regimental items) Bury Archives Section (archives) Reference/Local History Library (photographs) CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 332 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Carlisle City Museums ••• Recognise need for co-operation Guildhall Museum & consultation with museums Tullie House and galleries of similar or Museum & Art overlapping interests and Gallery collecting policies. Will consult appropriate institutions

Keep under review situation with local libraries and LROs. Will not collect books and original documents if more appropriate with them. Catalyst •••* † - Widnes Aims to develop close links to Items collected before co-ordinate collecting with Acquisitions Policy in place Science Museum & other relevant Some social history museums Broken/incomplete plant and/or equipment Will develop policy re company archives with relevant record office if need arises Cheshire Military Museum Informal agreements with other •••* † MOD museums re Regimental collecting CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 333 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Cheshire Museums •••* † Intend to co-operate with Paintings of Museum Services Cheshire RO on collecting Very poor quality, Unit documents relevance or Salt Museum *† physical condition Stretton Watermill Will seek to consult where a conflict of interests possible Chester Museums Service •••* Arms & Armour - except civil No formal agreements in most Local History - due to † war pending review cases but all collecting takes into deterioration or items of little Grosvenor Museum account other institutions value or use in museum terms Heritage Centre Nat Hist pending suitable collecting within the same field King Charles Tower storage for new & existing colls Costume - due to poor physical Water Tower Collecting of documentary and condition & lack of merit Local Hist - no large items due oral material to be done in to lack of display & storage conjunction with Chester RO & Majority of Nat Hist coll on space Chester Oral Hist Soc long term loan to more suitable museums Dolls - pre 1920 Geology - 15% of coll on loan

Eggs - main coll on loan

Photographs being transferred to Chester RO CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 334 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Chorley Arts & Museums Dec Arts - Creamware Intend to consult with County Archival material possible Service •••† Glass Museum in Preston re C20 war transfer to CRO Astley Hall Museum material & Art Gallery Soc Hist - Military/Regimental - certain Horse Brasses Working in conjunction with items may be better located in Central Lancs Arch Research other museums Unit to gather dispersed bronze age material from a site close to mus

Refers archival material to CRO City of Liverpool •••* † Agreements with Croxteth Hall & Country Park National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside Temple Newsam Ryhope Engine Museum Cumbria Police Museum •••* Non local material Cumbria Museum Forum Occasional items of Police † material that do not connect - Penrith with our objectives are passed to a more apt & suitable venue - does not happen often CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 335 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Dove Cottage & The Trust works in closest Wordsworth Museum ••• possible way with all other institutions worldwide collecting Romantic literature, and with other Cumbrian museums, libraries and galleries re material of local interest Englesea Brook Chapel & None Takes account of other mus CPs None Museum of Primitive Methodism •••* † - Crewe Fusiliers Museum None Lancashire, The •••* † - Bury Greater Manchester Police Archive material from Police GMPM has informed other mus None Museum •••* † - Manchester forces outside region in the area of its colls & Coll Pol & sent questionnaires to find out who has colls in the same field. So far - Ordsall Hall Mus, Salford Stockport Mus Grundy Art Gallery •••† - Modern Jewellery Blackpool CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 336 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Harris Museum & Art Visiting card cases If collecting outside geographical Archives re history of Museum Gallery •••* † - Preston coll area consult with Lancs - considering transfer to CRO Dec Art County Mus Service other than ceramics, glass enamels & scent bottles CP - will not collect militaria or material properly belonging to Historic fashion plates County & Reg Museum

Ethnography (except if strong Archives go to CRO local link) Items such as Trade Directories & maps offered first to Preston Dist Library

Not collect items such as film if more appropriate to NW Film Archive

Archaeology - discuss items from outside Preston area with Lancs County Mus Service

The Collected Collections Page 337 September 1998 Haworth Art Gallery •••- Take into account policies and Accrington specialisations of neighbouring art galleries so that unnecessary duplication is avoided CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

•••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Heritage Trust for the North Bodies consulted during West •••† (Pendle Heritage preparation of CP: Centre) The North West Museums Service

Lancashire Record Office

Due consideration of collecting of adjacent, local, regional, and national museums and kindred bodies Heron Corn Mill & Paper None Museum •••* † - Milnthorpe CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 338 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Lake District Art Gallery & Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Abbot Hall Art Gallery - None Museum Trust •••* † Abbot Hall Art Will not collect Due account of CPs of other Gallery - Kendal Social History museums in the same or related Kendal Museum of Archaeology areas and consult where necessary Natural History & Natural History Archaeology Archival material e.g. deeds, Kendal Museum of Natural Museum of Lakeland business records etc History & Archaeology - Life & Industry - Kendal Museum of Lakeland Life & Due account of CPs of other Industry - museums in the same or related areas and consult where Natural history necessary. Specific regard to Archaeology other museums in county Archives Fine Art Deposit or loan documents with Cumbria Record Office or other suitable record office

Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - As other museums in Trust above CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 339 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Lancashire County Museum Geology - regional, national, Due regard to coll of district None Service •••† international, other than if part museums esp in met areas of Judges' Lodgings •••† - of coll by Lancs geologists County Lancaster Fleetwood Botany Museum •••† County & Ethnography Regimental Museum - Preston Industrial History - Turton Tower •••† - Coal mining Bolton Canal Helmshore Textile Rail Museums - Air transport Rossendale Chemicals Clitheroe Castle Queen Street Mill - Burnley CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 340 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Lancaster City Museums •••*† Geology Due consideration of Coll Pols of Lancaster adjacent local, regional & nat Museum •••* † Natural History mus & bodies Lancaster Maritime Social History Gen (duplicates) Museum •••* † Will actively promote with other Cottage Museum Large items relating to fishing related institutions a coherent Roman Bath House industry joint policy for coll in region St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Not collecting v. specialised Town Hall items where there is a suitable nat Collections or local provision existing Littleborough Museum ••• Due account of CP of other mus Non local material esp Rochdale Mus Service

Consult with local RO CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 341 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Macclesfield Museums •••† Macclesfield Silk Museum - Macclesfield Silk Museum To collect re the British silk Paradise Mill industry where appropriate and West Park Museum does not fall in CP of national & Art Gallery museums or other registered museums esp.

The Science Museum The V&A Other Textile museums

West Park Museum & Art Gallery - To collect re early work & life of Charles Tunnicliffe in conjunction with the Tunnicliffe Gallery, Anglesey CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 342 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Manchester City Art Take into account CPs of other Large items which we will Galleries •••* † mus in NW to avoid competition never display Athenaeum & duplication City Art Gallery Reproductions, formerly part of Fletcher Moss a loan scheme Heaton Hall Platt Hall Collection of 1930s printed Queen's Park Art textiles (we have discussed the Gallery transfer of this collection to the Wythenshawe Hall Whitworth Art Gallery)

Manchester Jewish Consult with relevant mus if 2 items relating to Liverpool Museum •••* † acquiring material outside the Jewish community, which the Greater Manchester area Trustees have agreed to transfer to National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside Manchester Transport Coll Management Plan sent - CP Museum ••• - Heaton Park, Appendix A not Attached Manchester CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 343 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Manx National Heritage •••* † All below except if imp Manx None at present Castle Rushen provenance or specific project Laxey Wheel & e.g. Contemporary collecting Lead Mines Manx Museum Closed areas - Peel Castle & House Medical, general of Manannan Education St Mary's Chapel, British realm coins the Old Grammar British armed services School - Castletown Heat (esp ranges - a storage problem, photo in situ) Light/Water/Sanitation Furniture-mod, mass production Cleaning/Washing mod equip TV/Radio/Cameras Toilet/Food & Drink/Medical & Infant Raising Energy/Water supply mass prod items Ind machinery (lack of resources, record process collect product) Architectural items (record in situ) CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

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The Collected Collections Page 345 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Museum of Science & Respects coll interests of other Extensive programme of Industry •••* † - Manchester museums & ROs & consult with appraisal & rationalisation of them where they overlap collections over last three years. Items considered for disposal if: Outside scope of CP, geographically or typologically Duplicates In poor condition Unidentifiable

Programme now close to completion. Will continue to review CP regularly & to reappraise collections in the light of any changes to it. May occasionally dispose of items where an unprovenanced item can be replaced with a provenanced one, thus upgrading the quality of the collections CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 346 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Museum of the King's Own Mus will take due consideration None Royal Regiment •••* † - of the Coll Pols of adjacent local, Lancaster reg & nat mus & bodies Nantwich Museum ••• Recognise need for consultation and co-operation with museums in the county and CRO where interests overlap National Museum of Labour Due consideration paid to other Redirecting of local archival History •••† - Manchester mus collecting lab hist - inc material relevant only to a Pump House People's Palace, Glasgow particular locality to People's Story, Edinburgh appropriate local RO NMGM Mus Sc & Ind, Manchester Tameside Mus Service Salford Mus Service Rochdale Pioneers Mus S Wales Miners Lib, Swansea Warwick Mod Records Centre Working Class Movement Lib, Salford Central Manch Ref Lib Soc for Study of Lab Hist Nat Peace Mus, Bradford CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 347 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan

The Collected Collections Page 348 September 1998 National Museums & Cameras & photographic equip Cognisance of recommendations Furniture - C19 certain items Galleries on Merseyside •••* † by UK Systematic Forum re nat Liverpool Museum Computing equip & calculating policy for systematic colls Architectural fragments - Walker Art Gallery machines certain items Lady Lever Art Cognisance of colls and activities Gallery Domestic apparatus in other nats & mus in NW Cameras & photographic equip Sudley House Oratory Medical equip Birmingham City Museums Computing equip & calculating Maritime Museum Bolton Museum machines Museum of Weights & measures, metrology Grosvenor Museum, Chester Liverpool Life Horniman Museum & Gardens Domestic apparatus HM Customs & Veterinary material with Lancashire County Museum Excise Museum tuberculosis Service Medical equip Lancaster Maritime Museum Manchester City Art Galleries Weights & measures, Museum of Science & Industry in metrology Manchester Veterinary material with National Maritime Museum tuberculosis National Museums of National Museum of Science & Liverpool Chemists Industry Association collection of National Museum of Wales inorganic chemicals is a Natural History Museum possible target (continued) North West Museums Service CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

•••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned

The Collected Collections Page 349 September 1998 Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan National Museums & Cognisance of colls and activities Galleries on Merseyside •••* † in other nats & mus in NW Liverpool Museum (continued) Walker Art Gallery Lady Lever Art Oldham Museum Gallery Royal Botanic Gardens, Sudley House Edinburgh Oratory Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Maritime Museum Tate Gallery Museum of The British Horological Liverpool Life Institution HM Customs & The British Museum Excise Museum The Manchester Museum The Worshipful Company of (continued) Clockmakers Townley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle Ulster Museum Victoria & Albert Museum CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 350 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Norton Priory Museum •••* † Competition with museums not None anticipated as site specific

Consult with Cheshire RO Oldham Museums ••• Will take into account CPs of Oldham Art Gallery neighbouring museums esp. Oldham Museum Saddleworth Museum & AG Penrith Museum •••* † Archaeology (certain exceptions Acknowledge need to co-operate Archives - possible transfer of for display) with other insts where interests some to local CRO overlap. Will consult and form Botany (certain exceptions for reciprocal agreements if conflict display) of interests exists

Zoology(certain exceptions for display) Peter Scott Gallery •••* † - Due consideration of CPs of other None Lancaster University institutions Quarry Bank Mill ••• CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 351 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Queen's Lancashire Items on loan to Amalgam of 3 older Reg Mus - Regiment Museum •••* † - The Museum of great deal of duplication. Preston Lancashire, Preston Museum short of storage & Blackburn Museum funds to conserve all items - Towneley Hall, Burnley coll will be examined & Warrington Museum suitable material for disposal identified. Consult re collecting with Disposals will be made National Army Museum following the est guidelines The Ogilby Trust Relevant local authority Disposals already made museums & record offices Oriental weapons Rifles Ravenglass Railway NB Collecting Policy currently Museum ••• under review Regimental Museum of the Sent Coll Management Pol Border Regiment & the Sending new CP as soon as it is Kings Own Royal Border ready Regiment ••• - Carlisle Ribchester Roman Has consulted with Lancaster Museum ••• Museum re CPs Close ties with Lancs Mus Service & Blackburn Mus. All 3 have copies of their CP CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

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The Collected Collections Page 353 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Rochdale Museum & Art Will seek to establish coll Possible rationalisation of colls Gallery •••† agreements with galleries, local in future - full documentation studies & libs in region. Esp Coll of colls currently taking place. Pols in Gt Manchester boroughs Serious duplication in past due & others inc to separate operation of Oldham services Bury Rossendale Art Gallery - Calderdale Some loose documentary Lancs in gen photographs may be transfered to the Local Studies Library or Written agreement with Gt Museum Service Manchester CRO re what mus does & does not collect. Rochdale Pioneers Negotiate on acquisition & None Museum •••* † disposal with other museums in same collecting area or field esp- Nat Mus of Labour History Beamish Museum in Newtown New Lanark Trust CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 354 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Rossendale Museum •••* † Ethnography Will take into account CPs of other museums. Some overlap Horology unavoidable & liaison with relevant museum will take place Militaria Will liaise with local RO & Nat Hist - due to lack of library specialist staff

Geology - due to lack of specialist staff. Except local material after consulting experts Ruskin Museum •••* † - Non-Local - Recognise potential conflict esp None Coniston Archaeology with Dec Art Brantwood Fine Art Bembridge School/Lanc Uni Geology Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield Nat History Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Soc Hist Trustees policy to consult with these institutions CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 355 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Saddleworth Museum & Art Sewing machines Currently discussing co- Limited disposal anticipated if Gallery •••* † Mangles ordination of CPs with appropriate, pending full audit Typewriters Oldham of colls & co-ordination of CPs Items with no link to Tameside with Saddleworth or existing Kirklees Museums Oldham collections Tameside Kirklees Mus

In Mus Journal Jan'97 offered Bag of golf clubs Cobbler's tools Harmonium Magic lanterns (incomplete) Mangle Sewing machines Typewriters & office equipment Washing machines CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 356 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Salford Museums & Art Decorative Arts Collecting is related to geography Whole Service - Galleries •••* † and the CPs of other museums in Lancashire Mining Japanese pottery & the region Present collections under Museum porcelain constant review. Possible that Ordsall Hall Chinese pottery & may transfer, in context of Museum porcelain disposal policy, suitable Salford Museum & Pre-Columbian South material to other museums, Art Gallery American pottery which can offer better care and Ivory display opportunities Metalware (except local trophies) Lancashire Mining Museum - Items from the former Science Ethnography collections - misc objects & important early microscopes Natural History (not inc. geology) Museums & Art Gallery - Situation constantly under review - may decide to transfer collections in order to create Regional Collections of Excellence e.g. Costume CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 357 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Sefton Museums •••* † Survey work being undertaken Atkinson Art Gallery to establish nature, relevance & - Southport conservation requirements of Bootle Free Museum collections. May reveal items & Art Gallery for disposal for general Collections (museum improvement of collection and closed) their use (within Registration Botanic Gardens guidelines & with guidance of Museum - Southport AMC).

Natural history - possibly parts of collection - do not have specialist curator, unlikely to in the future

Military History - Licensed weapons already transfered to Regimental Museum in Preston Senhouse Roman Museum ••• - Maryport CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 358 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan South Ribble Museum & Due regard for the interests of None Exhibition Centre •••† - other museums Leyland Will advise donors which mus to approach

Harris Museum has collected from this geog area in the past, unclear from CP whether any potential conflict of interests now St Helens Museum & Art Militaria Regimental Mus aware of CPs Transferred to Liverpool Gallery •••* † Bolton Museum Ethnology Salford Geology (non-local) Warrington Natural history Egyptology Wigan Ethnology Liverpool Numismatics (non- Natural history Manchester local) Mus Services of Merseyside Deaccessioned and transferred Cheshire to Registered museums Lancashire Costume Ceramics (non-local) Archives directed to Local Hist & Guns & weapons Archives Lib. Intend to draw up Archaeology (non-local, a formal written policy with them excluding Egyptology) CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

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The Collected Collections Page 360 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan St Helens Transport None in immediate future Museum † To re-assess after rebuilding work Stockport Heritage Archives - except those relating Will respect interests of other Natural history -selected items Services •••* † to Bramall Hall museums, esp Tameside. Where (which we do not have the Stockport Museum conflict, mutual agreement to be expertise to care for ie coll of Bramall Hall Ethnography reached 2,000 beetles) Lyme Hall Stockport Art Typewriter collection (esp Gallery duplicates) Hatting Museum Stockport Air Raid Duplicated items in gen may be Shelters passed to Education staff Chadkirk Chapel

The Collected Collections Page 361 September 1998 Tameside Museum Service ••• Co-operates with other mus in Gt None Astley Cheetham Art Manchester area Gallery - Stalybridge Museum of the Photographs & Archives passed Manchesters † - to Local Studies Library in Ashton-u-Lyne Stalybridge Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Towneley Hall Art Gallery Ivories Co-operate with & refer offers to Gun collection & Museums •••* † - Burnley other insts as appropriate Towneley Hall Gun collection Museum of Local Large archives referred to Lancs Crafts & Industries Coins RO Natural History Centre & Aquarium Costume/ Textiles

Ethnology

Egyptian Archaeology

The Collected Collections Page 362 September 1998 University of Liverpool None Art Gallery & Collections •••* † Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 363 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan University of Manchester The Manchester Museum - Jodrell Bank Science Centre Due note of published CPs of Tabley House other mus esp in areas which The Manchester relate to The Manchester Museum ••• Museum Whitworth Art Gallery ••• Warrington Museum & Art Print collection Give regard to interests of other No decision made at present Gallery •••* † museums, specifically - Textiles Chester Museum The Salt Museum, Northwich Furniture (due to lack of space) Cheshire Museum Service Macclesfield Museums Wigan Heritage Service Salford Museum & Art Gallery Prescott Museum of Clock & Watch Making Weaver's Triangle Visitor Maintain consultation with Review of reserve collection Centre ••• Towneley Hall Art Gallery & may reveal items to transfer to Museums, Burnley other museums CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 364 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Wigan Heritage Service ••• Ethnography Wish to draw up Acquisition Wigan Pier Heritage Agreements with neighbouring Centre Egyptology mus Hindley Museum Bolton Powell Gallery Natural History Salford Trencherfield Mill Warrington History Shop Gaming Counters St. Helens Merseyside Manchester Lancashire County

Archives passed to Archive Service as appropriate Windermere Steamboat None Museum •••* † CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

The Collected Collections Page 365 September 1998 •••CP/CM Returned *Amended Summary Returned †Questionnaire Returned Museum Collecting Areas which are Agreements with Other Objs/Colls being Considered Closed Institutions for Disposal or Transfer/Loan Wirral Museum & Art Foreign Paintings Liaise with NMGM re Gallery Services ••• - archaeology Birkenhead Natural Sciences Williamson Art Gen regard for interests of other Gallery & Museum Archaeology - non local mus Birkenhead Priory St Mary's Tower Ethnography Shore Road Pumping Station Geology Woodside Visitor Centre CP = Collecting Policy CRO = County Record Office LRO = Local Record Office RO = Record Office

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Significant Collections

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Significant Collections

Information on significant collections in the region was provided by the responses to question 6 on the survey questionnaire

••• Can you please identify those collections (by donor's or other name where relevant) or individual objects/works of art which you feel are of regional, national or international significance?

A summary of the data is provided in the following table. One music collection of international importance was also listed. This is not included under the field headings in the following table.

Ref. Collection Field Significant Reg signif Nat Signif Int Signif Collections 1 Archaeology/Antiquities 22 9 4 5 2 Egyptology 4 1 2 2 3 Ethnography 15 0 6 9 4 Natural History 31 10 10 13 5 Geology 4 0 2 1 6 Fine Art 74 23 31 11 7 Decorative Art 62 11 38 7 8 Costume & Textiles 3 3 1 0 9 Social History 27 7 8 2 10 Industrial History 24 10 9 2 11 Transport History 1 0 0 0 12 Maritime 4 1 1 0 13 Science 6 2 3 2 14 Military History 12 4 9 1 15 Numismatics 5 2 2 2 16 Ephemera 3 1 1 1 17 Photographic 12 1 0 0 18 Archives 11 1 2 2

Significant collections were listed by Museum Services under all of the survey subject field headings. You will notice that figures entered under Regional, National and International Significance do not add up to the total number of Significant Collections in each subject field heading. This is because in a number of cases collections were considered significant under more than one heading e.g. to be significant regionally, nationally and internationally.

No criteria for what constituted a significant collection was set out in the questionnaire. This was deliberate in order to obtain the curators’ own views of the region’s collections. In the absence of criteria to state what constituted a significant

The Collected Collections Page 368 September 1998 collection and at what level, many Museum Services listed significant collections without adding whether they were regionally, nationally or internationally important.

One or two museums felt unable to provide this information either because they were unclear about what constituted a 'significant collection' or due to the lack of a specialist curator or curatorial staff to assess collections. Consequently there may well be more significant collections in the region than those listed in this survey.

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NW Federation Collections Survey Collections or Objects of Regional, National or International Significance Identified from Questionnaires

R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Allerdale Borough Museums Helena Thompson Museum Helena Thompson Possibly works of art FineA Y Museum - Workington Keswick Museum & Art Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Gallery Geology - some type material etc & v important collectors Geol Y Maryport Maritime Museum Art (some items) FineA Y

Literary collection esp Robert Southey Archvs Y

The Collected Collections Page 370 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Armitt Trust Museum & Library The Beatrix Potter watercolours compliment the collections at Sawrey and - Ambleside Hawkshead, and is the largest collection of her scientific drawings of fungi in the world NatH

Photographic collections, C19 and early C20, inc. Herbert Bell Photo

Two paintings by Kurt Schwitters FineA

Material by John Ruskin and Charlotte Mason Archvs Y

The early guides to the Lake District have been included in Peter Bicknell’s Bibliography of Lake District printed material 1750-1850 (along with collections at , Carlisle and Grasmere) Archvs

Roman material from Galava Archgy Y Astley Green Colliery Museum - Colliery steam winding engine IndH Tyldesley Barrow-in-Furness Museum VSEL collection Service 11 ship models (1886-1934) Dock Museum c.7,000 glass & film negatives (earliest1878/ latest 1972) Selection of souvenirs from ships and shipyards IndH & Recent addition of c.100 16mm films MaritH Y

The Collected Collections Page 371 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Beacon, The - Whitehaven Beilby 'Slave Trade' glass goblet c1763 Dec A Y

3 x Oil paintings by Robert Salmon (marine subjects) FineA Y

Good collection of marine paintings by nationally known artists FineA Y

Oil paintings by Matthias Read FineA Y

C19 Whitehaven pottery Dec A Y

St Bees shroud Archgy Y

Quern stone collection Archgy Y

Coal mining artefacts IndH Y Blackburn Museum & Art Hart collection of illustrated manuscripts DecA Y Gallery Lewis Textile Museum Icons, Russian & Greek Orthodox FineA Y

Numismatics Num Y

The Collected Collections Page 372 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Boat Museum - Ellesmere Port Paintings by artists such as Isaiah Atkins FineA Frank Nurses FineA Bill Hodgson FineA

Robert Archman Photographic collection Photo Eric de Mare photographic collection Photo Michael Ware photographic collection Photo

Inland Waterways Association Archive Archvs Bolton Museums & Art Gallery Early cotton textile machinery (a unique combination) ie Central Museum, Art Crompton’s Mule IndH Gallery & Aquarium Arkwright’s IndH Hall i'th' Wood Hargreaves IndH Smithills Hall Local History Egyptian antiquities collection Archgy Museum(closed - colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum(closed - colls in store '93) Brantwood - Coniston Belonging to & by John Ruskin Paintings ) FineA Manuscripts ) & Books ) Archvs

The Collected Collections Page 373 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Catalyst - Widnes Collection detailing history & development of chemical ind in NW, mirroring & reflecting its national & international growth (mainly reg signif) IndH Y Cheshire Military Museum 22nd Regiment - George Jones painting 'Mecanee' MilitH Y

Cheshire Yeomanry - Shako of 1830 period (excellent condition) MilitH Y

5th Dragoon Guards - Waterloo jacket damaged in the Union Brigade charge at Waterloo MilitH Y Cheshire Museums Service - Northwich Roman cavalry helmet Archgy Museum Services Unit Salt Museum Congleton coin hoard (C17) Archgy Stretton Watermill Salt Museum collection (only one in Britain - at least reg imp) IndH Y

The Collected Collections Page 374 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Chester Museums Service Roman archaeological material esp inscribed & sculpted stones Archgy Y Grosvenor Museum Heritage Centre Anglo-Saxon coins Num Y King Charles Tower Water Tower Brassan Recorders (C17) Music Y

Stoltefoth's Diatom collections (currently on loan to Nat Hist Mus) NatH Y

Chester related silver collections Dec A Y

Toft dish (earliest dated) Dec A Y

Jeff's dinosaur footprints Geol Y

Plas Heaton fossil collection (currently on loan to Nat Mus of Wales) Geol Y

Topographical art collection Chester, Cheshire & N Wales) FineA Y

Clocks (Chester & N Wales) Dec A Y

Buckley pottery Dec A Y

Mounted bird collection NatH Y

Eliza Potts Herbarium collection NatH Y

The Collected Collections Page 375 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Chorley Arts & Museums Tatton collection of Creamware Dec A Service Astley Hall Museum & 'Moonlight Voyage' by Paul Nash FineA Art Gallery 'Devastation' by Graham Sutherland FineA City of Liverpool Holtzappel ornamental turning lathe with over 2,000 accessories, formerly Croxteth Hall & Country owned by a member of the Sefton family SocH Park Cumbria Police Museum - Portrait of Sir Robert Peel - print only but donated by a descendant SocH Y Penrith Display & file on Percy Topliss incident 1920 (the Monocled Mutineer) SocH Y

Several murders/incidents of national interest & local interest SocH Y Y Englesea Brook Chapel & First organ used in PM chapel (1828) SocH Y Museum of Primitive Methodism - Crewe First printing press used by the movement c1820-43 SocH Y

Pulpit made by one of the Pioneers out of a chest of drawers SocH Y

This is only mus of Primitive Methodism, so in a sense whole coll of nat importance - representing a movement which had significant influence on C19 & early C20 life throughout country

The Collected Collections Page 376 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, Napoleon - books, badges presented by Napoleon to the 20th Regiment in The - Bury May 1821 (2 wks before his death) - 12 soldiers of the 20th carried his coffin to the grave on St Helena MilitH Y

Robert Ross - Uniforms. Robert Ross, commander of the British expedition to USA in 1814, burnt the White House & lost his life at Baltimore 12 Sept 1814. Former Commanding Officer of the 20th MilitH Y

James Wolfe - Commanding Officer of the 20th 1750-58. Wax effigy, diamond ring, lace ruffles (1746) & ceremonial belt. His sword is on loan to the Tower of London MilitH Y

Numerous archives in connection with Lancashire/Greater Manchester approx 1796 to date (20th formed in 1688 but NW links from 1796) MilitH Y & Archvs Greater Manchester Police Archive material re post-war civil defence & personnel records for Museum - Manchester Manchester Police 1839-1968 - may have reg significance due to lack of dedicated Police mus archives in NW SocH Y Archvs Grundy Art Gallery - Blackpool Large collection of Oriental ivory Dec A Y

Photographs of old Blackpool local/reg signif Photo Y

The Collected Collections Page 377 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Newsham collection of Victorian paintings FineA Y Preston Royal Academy paintings purchased 1896-1965 (approx) FineA Y

Contemporary Art Society purchase scheme collection 1985-96 FineA Y

British sculpture 1880-1930 FineA Y

Mrs I French collection of scent bottles Dec A Y

Paintings by members of the Devis family FineA Y Y

Local topographic paintings & prints FineA Y

British printmaking (mid C18 to date) FineA Y

Watercolour collection (mid C18 to date) FineA Y

British ceramics (inc v rare Leeds creamware cockle pot) Dec A Y

Mrs I French collection of card cases Dec A Y

The Collected Collections Page 378 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Collection of costume Cost Y Preston Local history collection SocH Y (continued) Textile sample books Cost Y Heritage Trust for the North N/A West (Pendle Heritage Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Heron Corn Mill Museum - Milnthorpe The whole of the working corn mill is the collection - considered to be at least reg significance - parts may be unique nationally IndH Y Y

Museum of Papermaking Nothing of reg significance other than only mus devoted to paper IndH Y

The Collected Collections Page 379 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Lake District Art Gallery & ‘The Great Picture’ - attr J V Belcamp (c.1650) FineA Y Museum Trust Abbot Hall Art Gallery - ‘Crowned Head the Queen’ - Ben Nicholson (1932) FineA Y Kendal Kendal Museum of ‘The Gower Family’ - G Romney (1776-77) FineA Y Natural History & Archaeology ‘The Passage of the St Gothard from Teufels Bruke’ - J M W Turner(1804) FineA Y Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal ‘Belle Isle Winderemere in a Calm and in a Storm’ - P J de Loutherbourg FineA Y

11 works by Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948 inc. ‘Flight’ 1946, ‘Mier Bitte’ 1946, Dec A Y ‘Ambleside YMCA Flag’ 1946, ‘Sculpture on a Bone’ 1946

The Collected Collections Page 380 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Lake District Art Gallery & (continued) Museum Trust Abbot Hall Art Gallery - George Romney 1734-1802, C18 portraits FineA Y Kendal Kendal Museum of Tufton collection (portraits of Clifton family) FineA Y Natural History & Archaeology Topographical/picturesque views of Lake District FineA Y Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal Watercolours by John Ruskin FineA Y

(continued) C20 British painting FineA Y

W G C Collingwood FineA Y

Eric Sharpe FineA Y

Stanley Davies FineA Y

Oliver Morel FineA Y

Romney Greene FineA Y

Furniture by Gillows of Lancaster DecA Y

Studio Pottery - St Ives School DecA Y

The Collected Collections Page 381 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Lancashire County Museum Fleetwood Museum Service Biology collections (ex-Harris Museum - Preston) e.g. F W Frohawk & Judges' Lodgings - R A Hoyle collections NatH Y Lancaster Fleetwood Museum Judges' Lodgings Museum County & Regimental Furniture of all periods by Gillows of Lancaster (In particular this inc the Museum - Preston Denton Hall Library Table, 1778, recently acquired for £315,000 following Turton Tower - Bolton witholding an export licence - mainly nat signif but table international Dec A Y Y Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale Paintings by - Clitheroe Castle Thomas Lawrence Queen Street Mill - Joseph Wright of Derby Burnley Arthur Devis Anthony Devis FineA Y

Childhood collections inc the Barry Elder doll collection SocH Y

Turton Tower C R Ashbee wardrobe Dec A

Chair owned by D G Rossetti Dec A

Courtney bed & other V&A loans Dec A

Contemporary wood collection, work by - J Partridge D Field Dec A

The Collected Collections Page 382 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Lancaster City Museums Lancaster City Museum Lancaster Museum Photographic inc Lancaster Maritime Sam Thompson Museum John Walker Cottage Museum Robert Allston collection (view postcards) Photo Y Roman Bath House St. Patrick's Chapel - Knitting pin holders - treen, approx 11 Dec A Y Heysham Town Hall Collections Topographic Prints (continued) Watercolours FineA Y Oils Gillows Furniture Series of drawings Dec A Y

The Collected Collections Page 383 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Lancaster City Museums Lancaster Maritime Museum Lancaster Museum John Walker photo collection (mentioned above) Lancaster Maritime Museum 'Thetis' ship model 20 gun privateer c 1805 MaritH Cottage Museum Roman Bath House Lancaster Canal collection TranH St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Maritime paintings collection FineA Town Hall Collections Heysham Harbour collection MaritH (continued) Fishing collection MaritH Y Macclesfield Museums Macclesfield Silk Museum Paradise Mill West Park Museum & Art Gallery Manchester City Art Galleries Pre-Raphelite paintings FineA Y Athenaeum City Art Gallery Victorian & Edwardian paintings FineA Y Fletcher Moss Heaton Hall Assheton Bennett bequests Platt Hall Silver Dec A Y Queen's Park Art Gallery Dutch C17 & C18 paintings FineA Y Wythenshawe Hall Thomas Greg bequest of English pottery Dec A Y

The Collected Collections Page 384 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Manchester City Art Galleries Turner watercolours FineA Y Athenaeum City Art Gallery British & European ceramics, glass & metalware Fletcher Moss Leicester Collier bequest Dec A Y Heaton Hall George Beatson Blair bequest Dec A Y Platt Hall Dykes bequest Dec A Y Queen's Park Art Gallery Lacks bequest Dec A Y Wythenshawe Hall Raby bequest Dec A Y Lloyd Roberts bequest Dec A Y (continued) Tylecote bequest Dec A Y

Pilkington's ceramics Dec A Y

Industrial art collection of 1930s ceramics & glass Dec A Y

Rutherston collection of 1920s & 1930s paintings Dec A Y Manchester Jewish Museum MJM is unique in being the only Jewish museum housed in a converted (built 1874) - interior remains pretty much intact Only Jewish mus outside London - in that sense collection of material re Manchester Jewish Community has a reg significance in its own right SocH Y

The Collected Collections Page 385 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Manx National Heritage Manx crosses Archgy Y Castle Rushen Laxey Wheel & Lead Viking coins Num Y Mines Manx Museum Late neolithic Archgy Y Peel Castle & Odin's Raven C H Cowley Prehistoric collection Archgy Y St Mary's Chapel, the Old Grammar School - Bronze age bronzes Archgy Y Castletown Archibald Knox archive Archvs Y

Hoggatt paintings FineA Y

Internment archive Archvs Y

The Grove collection Ephem Y

Cregneash Rural Life Museum SocH Y

J H Nicholson FinA/ Y Photo Furniture collection Y Dec A

The Collected Collections Page 386 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Museum of Science & Industry - Electricity Council collection (archives & objects) IndH Y Y Manchester Ferranti Collection (archives & objects) Sc & IndH Y Dalton & Joule Collections (objects) Sc Y Y

Beyer Peacock Collection (archives) IndH Y Y

National Paper Museum Collection (archives & objects on long term loan) IndH Y

Textile collections (machinery, fabric samples, etc) IndH Y

Machine tool collection (especially Whitworth machine tools) IndH Y

Most other collections and items of at least regional, rather than just local Sc & Y significance IndH Museum of the King's Own Entire collection reg significance MilitH Y Royal Regiment - Lancaster Portrait of Sir Robert Rich MilitH Y

Culloden Order books MilitH Y

The Collected Collections Page 387 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museum of Labour Entire archive SocH & History - Manchester Archvs Pump House Banners SocH Cliffe Rowe works SocH Photographs Photo Ceramics SocH Posters SocH Prints & cartoons SocH Some ephemera Ephem Some badges SocH Tokens SocH Personal memorabilia SocH

The Collected Collections Page 388 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museums & Galleries Botany on Merseyside Fungi (non-lichenised) NatH Y Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery Lichens NatH Y Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Research collections NatH Y Oratory Maritime Museum Photographs of plants, habitats & botanical subjects Photo Y Museum of Liverpool Life Archives NatH Y HM Customs & Excise Museum Algae NatH Y

Mosses & liverworts NatH Y

Cultivated angiosperms NatH Y

Economic botany NatH Y

Library NatH Y

British & Irish phanerogams NatH Y

European phanerogams NatH Y

Ferns & fern-allies NatH Y

The Collected Collections Page 389 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museums & Galleries Botany (continued) on Merseyside Extra-European angiosperms NatH Y Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery Timbers NatH Y Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Zoology Oratory Osteology NatH Y Maritime Museum Museum of Liverpool Mounted & modelled vertebrates NatH Y Life HM Customs & Excise Birds eggs NatH Y Museum Fish NatH Y (continued) Entomology & associated groups NatH Y Y

Marine invertebrate collection NatH Y Y

Conchology NatH Y Y

Skins Bird NatH Y Mammal NatH Y

Amphibia NatH Y

Reptiles NatH Y

The Collected Collections Page 390 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museums & Galleries Fine & Decorative Art on Merseyside Fine art generally FineA Y Y Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery Ceramics DecA Y Y Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Costume Cost Y Y Oratory Maritime Museum Horology Dec A Y Y Museum of Liverpool Life Most collections inc those above also of nat importance HM Customs & Excise Museum Fine art esp European Old Master paintings FineA Y Y (continued) Pre-Raphaelites FineA Y Y Sculpture FineA Y Y

Decorative art esp Furniture Dec A Y Y Ceramics Dec A Y Y

The Collected Collections Page 391 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museums & Galleries Archaeology & Ethnology on Merseyside British antiquities local & national Archgy Y Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery Numismatics Num Y Y Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Cyprus Archgy Y Oratory Maritime Museum Central America ethnography Ethno Y Museum of Liverpool Life S America ethnography Ethno Y HM Customs & Excise Museum Oriental collections Islamic Ethno Y (continued) Indian Ethno Y S E Asia Ethno Y Island Asia Ethno Y

The Collected Collections Page 392 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I National Museums & Galleries Archaeology & Ethnology (continued) on Merseyside Egyptian antiquities Egypt Y Liverpool Museum Walker Art Gallery Near Eastern antiquities Archgy Y Lady Lever Art Gallery Sudley House Classical antiquities Archgy Y Oratory Maritime Museum African ethnographic collections Ethno Y Museum of Liverpool Life Central Ethno Y HM Customs & Excise S America Ethno Y Museum Pre-Columbian Ethno Y

(continued) N America Ethno Y

Oceania Ethno Y

Oriental collections Tibetan Ethno Y Chinese Ethno Y Japanese Ethno Y

The Collected Collections Page 393 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Norton Priory Museum Contemporary art collection FineA Y

Norton Priory archaeological site archive Archgy Y

Statue of St Christopher c 1400 loaned to Norton Priory by the owner NMGM FineA Y Penrith Museum Dutch Masters - paintings by Heemskerk Wouverman Teniers II FineA Brouwer English School- Jacob Thompson 'Downfall of Pride' FineA 'Hope Beyond' Peter Scott Gallery - Lancaster Irene Manton Bequest & Gift FineA Y Y University Collection of Royal Lancastrian pottery Dec A Y Queen's Lancashire Regiment Archive of records covering over 200 yrs from 90 major units drawn from the Museum - Preston local area - major local significance & receives great deal of attention nationally & internationally MilitH / Y Y Y Archvs

The Collected Collections Page 394 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Rochdale Museum & Art Old Master paintings in the Kay Bequest - Gallery C16 & C17 Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German & French works inc paintings attributed to Giovanni di Poalo Lucas Cranach, follower of Murillo William van Aelst Morales Francois Clouet FineA

C20 modernist paintings esp by Spencer Sickert Lucien Pissarro Hornel Ivon Hitchens Tristram Hillier Laura Knight Richard Eurich Augustus John Ambrose McEvoy Duncan Grant Roger Fry Vanessa Bell D Y Cameron FineA Rochdale Pioneers Museum N/A Rossendale Museum Early English pottery esp slipware - wider than local significance Dec A

The Collected Collections Page 395 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Ruskin Museum - Coniston Ruskin collection- (watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, letters, books, FineA / engravings, personalia) most given by Ruskin's heir, Mrs Arthur Severn (nee Dec A / Joan Agnew) & husband, who lived at Brantwood & by his right-hand man Ephem/ Y Y W G Collingwood Photo/ Archvs Donald Campbell/Bluebird archive (press coverage, photographs) Y

Mining & quarrying material Photo Y

Farming bygones IndH Y

2 Bronze Age urns SocH Y

Archgy Saddleworth Museum & Art Woollen textile machinery Gallery Mule Dobcross loom Early card IndH Y Y

Prehistory - flint collections Archgy Y Y

Art - Edna Lumb paintings FineA Y

The Collected Collections Page 396 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Salford Museums & Art Galleries Microscope by Martin, London c 1720-1740, plus accessories, good condition Sc Y Lancashire Mining Museum Scientific items Sc Y Ordsall Hall Museum Salford Museum & Art Mining material IndH Y Y Gallery Social history collection in general SocH Y

L S Lowry Paintings Drawings Archive FineA Y Y

Ceramics Dec A Y Y South Ribble Museum & None Exhibition Centre - Leyland

The Collected Collections Page 397 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Southport Museums Local history paintings by Atkinson Art Gallery - Vernon Southport Beattie Botanic Gardens Museum Merdman SocH Y - Southport C18 drinking glasses Dec A Y

Goodison Egyptology collection Egypt Y Y

Dug out canoe, dated 535 AD found at Martin Mere Archgy

Chirotherium Storetonense 'lady's hand' fossil Geol

Liverpool Porcelain collection Dec A

Lancaster Boswell ceramics collection Dec A St Helens Museum & Art Gallery Egyptology Egypt Y

Archaeology (local) Archgy Y St Helens Transport Museum

The Collected Collections Page 398 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Stockport Heritage Services Hatting collection - machinery, tools, hats, hatblocks, photographs & Stockport Museum ephemera IndH Bramall Hall Lyme Hall Thornton Pickard photographic co archive IndH Stockport Art Gallery Hatting Museum Pugin/Crace furniture from Abney Hall Dec A Stockport Air Raid Shelters Lowry paintings & drawings of Stockport FineA Chadkirk Chapel Alan Lowndes, 3 paintings FineA

John Benjamin Smith collection of paintings FineA

2 regionally important sites Bramall Hall Stockport Air Raid shelter SocH Tameside Museum Service Museum of the Manchesters Astley Cheetham Art Collection on loan from Regimental Trustees - largely regional significance MilitH Y Gallery - Stalybridge Museum of the Manchesters - Ashton-u- Lyne Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

The Collected Collections Page 399 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Oil painting by Johan Zoffany - 'Charles Towneley & friends in the Park St Museums - Burnley Gallery, Westminster' FineA Y Towneley Hall Museum of Local Crafts English watercolours of C18 & C19 FineA Y & Industries Natural History Centre & Hardcastle collection of children’s book illustrations FineA Y Aquarium C17 oak furniture Dec A Y

British paintings C19 & C20 FineA Y

Pilkingtons Royal Lancastrian Pottery Dec A Y

Ancient Egyptian items Egypt Y

Local prehistoric flint implements Archgy Y

History of the textile industry IndH Y

The Collected Collections Page 400 September 1998 R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Towneley Hall Art Gallery & C15 Gothic altarpiece - 'Towneley Altarpiece' Dec A Y Museums - Burnley Towneley Hall J W Waterhouse - 'Destiny' FineA Y Museum of Local Crafts & Industries L Alma-Tadema - 'The Picture Gallery' FineA Y Natural History Centre & Aquarium Burne-Jones - 'Wood Nymphs' FineA Y

(continued) Art collection as a whole FineA Y &Dec A University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

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R Regional Significance N National Significance I International Significance Museum Significant Collection or Object Field R N I Warrington Museum & Art Oil painting ‘Flowers & Fruit’ by Jan Van Os Fine A Y Gallery Welsh crwth (musical instrument) SocH Y

Virginal SocH Y

Roman actor’s mask Archgy Y

C17 token collection Num Y

J A Edelston collection of ceramics DecA Y

Thomas Birtles collection of local photographs Photo Y

Robinsons glass collection IndH Y

John Warrington Wood sculptures FineA Y

James Charles oil paintings FineA Y

L Greening’s spider & reptile collections (in spirit) NatH Y Windermere Steamboat Museum Not clear what this actually means

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Important Groups of Collections in the Region

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Important Groups of Collections in the Region

The following table is based on responses to question 7 on the survey questionnaire

••• Can you identify any collections in other museums in the North West which, if linked to your collections, would constitute a grouping of regional, national or international significance?

35 of the 69 Museum Services who returned questionnaires were able to name one or more museums or collections in answer to this question.

Those who did not list other museums or collections in answer to this question did not all give their reasons why. Reasons given for not doing so were as follows

• The museums collection is already significant in its own right.

• Museums with very locally based collections felt that the whole point of their collections was to have a local focus.

• Felt that their collections were too small to have any impact in linking with others.

One respondent felt that this question was invidious.

In one or two cases museums are already in contact with the museums whose collections they have listed and are collaborating to document and give improved access to those collections. One museum hoped that this document may provide a starting point to identify similar collections in the region with which to collaborate.

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NW Federation Collections Survey Collections in Museums in the North West which, if Linked Would Constitute a Grouping of Regional, National or International Significance Identified from Questionnaires

Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Allerdale Borough Museums Unable to say Helena Thompson Museum - Workington Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Maryport Maritime Museum Armitt Trust Museum & Library - Ambleside The material relating to the Lakeland writers and poets, together with material at Brantwood

The Coniston Ruskin Museum

Keswick Museum

Dove Cottage Astley Green Colliery Museum - Tyldesley Lancashire Mining Museum

Wigan Council History Workshop

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Barrow-in-Furness Museum Service The Dock Museum and the following all have complementary collections, which Dock Museum together provide a clearer picture of the ‘maritime story of the area’ Lancaster Maritime Museum The Beacon, Whitehaven Maryport Maritime Museum

Beacon, The - Whitehaven Liverpool Maritime Museum - connections such as Marine paintings Ship models Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery Working with the Northern Textile Industries Group of museums with textile Lewis Textile Museum collections in the north of England In the North West this includes Lancashire County Museum Service Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester Wigan Heritage Service Bolton Museum Macclesfield Museum Trust Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery Quarry Bank Mill Boat Museum - Ellesmere Port No - key grouping of collections already achieved with that at National Waterways Museum, Gloucester

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Bolton Museums & Art Gallery Textile Pattern Book Collection Central Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium Hall i'th' Wood Smithills Hall Local History Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Tonge Moor Textile Museum (closed - colls in store '93) Brantwood - Coniston The Ruskin Museum - Coniston

The Ruskin Library - Lancaster University

Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal (small coll of Ruskin watercolours)

Armitt Trust - Charlotte Mason College - Ambleside (collection of Ruskin related material)

Dove Cottage - collection of paintings inc a couple of Ruskins Catalyst - Widnes No Cheshire Military Museum It is not the practice or policy of Regimental museums to move out of their (recruiting) area However a North West grouping of all Regiments would become of National & quite possibly International Significance to the military world I would not like to be the one to suggest it to the Regiments concerned

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Cheshire Museums Service - No Museum Services Unit Salt Museum Stretton Watermill Chester Museums Service Dark Age / Viking collection (small collection of approx 20 objects) is Grosvenor Museum nationally sighnificant when linked to any other collection and features in most Heritage Centre texts on the subject King Charles Tower Water Tower Robert Newstead Natural History items in conjunction with his material at the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool - Nationally Important Chorley Arts & Museums Service Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery City of Liverpool Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum - Burnley - have a collection of objects Croxteth Hall & Country Park turned on the Croxteth lathe & medals given to that member of the family Cumbria Police Museum - Penrith Items relating to the original constituent forces of the present Cumbria Constabulary lie with museums & archives in Kendal Whitehaven Barrow Preston Carlisle etc They are of historic interest to those particular areas and therefore will remain in those places

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Englesea Brook Chapel & Museum of Primitive There are only very slight overlapping areas e.g. Methodism - Crewe The printing press at The Printing House - Cockermouth Banners & possibly ceramics - National Museum of Labour History - Manchester Fusiliers Museum Lancashire, The - Bury Any other military museum Greater Manchester Police Museum - Manchester Not at present Grundy Art Gallery - Blackpool No Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Preston Various museums Banners Textile pattern books Heritage Trust for the North West (Pendle Heritage Regional furniture Centre) Heron Corn Mill & Paper Museum - Milnthorpe Museum of Papermaking Manchester Museum of Science & Industry - National Paper collection is in store & not displayed - parts of it could be added to our collection and make it at least of Regional Significance & with increased space National Significance

Heron Corn Mill I think we are the only corn mill which is registered (provisionally) as a museum - so any milling artefacts in other museum collections would obviously add to the breadth of our collection

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Lake District Art Gallery & Museum Trust Linking topographical views of the Lake District Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum Kendal Museum of Natural History & Archaeology Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Kendal Lancashire County Museum Service Fleetwood Museum Judges' Lodgings - Lancaster All natural sciences in NW form part of a collection of national importance to Fleetwood Museum 'science', much of it also internationally important County & Regimental Museum - Preston Turton Tower - Bolton (see 'Skeletons in the Cupboard' due to be published shortly by the North West Helmshore Textile Museums - Rossendale Collections Research Unit[NW Natural Science Curators] a survey of all natural Clitheroe Castle scienc collections in registered & non-registered NW institutions) Queen Street Mill - Burnley Judges' Lodgings Museum - Lancaster Yes there are several collections which if linked to ours would constitute a grouping of regional and national significance

Turton Tower Towneley Hall - English oak furniture Astley Hall - Chorley also has similar collections

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Lancaster City Museums Lancaster City Museum Lancaster Museum Lancashire County Museums - Gillows collections & archives Lancaster Maritime Museum Cottage Museum Westminster Reference Library - Gillows archives Roman Bath House St. Patrick's Chapel - Heysham Lancaster Maritime Museum Town Hall Collections Collections which complement our own & underline the wider significance of Morecambe Bay Fleetwood Museum esp fishing collections The Dock Museum - Barrow-in-Furness Macclesfield Museums North West Textile Pattern Books - Macclesfield Silk Museum This museum already has a significant collection of 600 books & a large number Paradise Mill of samples West Park Museum & Art Gallery We are currently collaborating with museums and education institutions to ascertain holdings and discuss possible collaboration in documentation & access Manchester City Art Galleries Whitworth Art Gallery - collections of Athenaeum Textiles City Art Gallery Wallpapers Fletcher Moss Watercolours Heaton Hall Prints & drawings Platt Hall C20 art Queen's Park Art Gallery Wythenshawe Hall Manchester Jewish Museum

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Manx National Heritage No Castle Rushen Laxey Wheel & Lead Mines Manx Museum Peel Castle & Odin's Raven St Mary's Chapel, the Old Grammar School - Castletown Museum of Science & Industry - Manchester Textile collections (objects or archives) Quarry Bank Mill Helmshore Textile Museum Oldham Museum Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery Bolton Museum & Art Gallery Whitworth Art Gallery University of Manchester Library

The Guardian Archive at University of Manchester John Rylands Library

Museum of the King's Own Royal Regiment - None Lancaster National Museum of Labour History - Manchester The collection already has such significance Pump House

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside Zoology Liverpool Museum Manchester Walker Art Gallery Conchology Lady Lever Art Gallery Entomology Sudley House Arachnids Oratory Maritime Museum Bolton (possibly) Museum of Liverpool Life Entomology HM Customs & Excise Museum Fine Art & Decorative Art The collections can stand alone as of major significance However NMGM & Manchester (City Art Galleries & Whitworth) collections together form the strongest body of Decorative Art (Western) in the region

There are many specialised collections in this museum-rich area which complement different aspects of the NMGM collections e.g. Pilkington's glass collection Larger collections such as the Harris at Preston with broad scope & many serendipitous points of contact

Archaeology & Ethnology No - those that are significant in NMGM are already significant in their own right Norton Priory Museum We believe that the results of the survey will be valuable for allowing us to make an informed assessment Penrith Museum N/A

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Peter Scott Gallery - Lancaster University Collections of Royal Lancastrian Pottery Burnley Manchester Would constitute a grouping of regional significance in the North West Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum - Preston No - The significance & reason for Regimental museums is that they reflect local history & tradition Rochdale Museum & Art Gallery Rochdale Pioneers Museum National Museum of Labour History Material on the co-operative movement

Co-operative Wholesale Society Documents & artefacts on the history of the Co-op Wholesale Society Rossendale Museum

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Ruskin Museum - Coniston Ruskin Material The Ruskin Museum Ruskin's home Brantwood The Ruskin Library at Lancaster University Together the above constitute a grouping of Ruskin material of international significance

Ruskin Gallery - Sheffield Ashmolean - add to this

Abbot Hall Art Gallery - Kendal has a small but choice collection of watercolours & drawings by John Ruskin

Donald Campbell Material The Lakeland Motor Museum - Holker Hall, Cumbria houses the major collection The owner aims to establish a Campbell memorial museum in Coniston

Arthur Ransome / Swallows & Amazons Material The extended Ruskin Museum will have a section on Arthur Ransome Material also held at Windermere Steamboat Museum Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry - Abbot Hall - Kendal

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery Textile industry Woollen Tolson, Huddersfield Calderdale Leeds Bradford

General As above Museum of Science & Industry - Manchester Helmshore Styal Macclesfield Wigan Salford Museums & Art Galleries Nothing coalmining related Lancashire Mining Museum Ordsall Hall Museum Future of objects & collections is under constant review Salford Museum & Art Gallery Disposals are/will be made only after considerable thought & only to registered museums We may decide to transfer collections in order to create regional collections of excellence e.g. Costume South Ribble Museum & Exhibition Centre - Our collection is a very small one Leyland The Museum is a new one (1978) The majority of items relating to our borough have been collected by older collections in the area

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Southport Museums Natural History Collection Atkinson Art Gallery - Southport Liverpool Museum Botanic Gardens Museum - Southport Liverpool Porcelain Collection Liverpool Museum St Helens Transport Museum The Greater Manchester Transport Museum - the collection of vehicles & artefacts sits nicely alongside ours as each specialises in the transport history of the two adjacent areas Stockport Heritage Services Tameside Hatting Collection Stockport Museum Bramall Hall Textile Collections (e.g. at Quarry Bank Mill or Helmshore) would be Lyme Hall complemented by our Stockport Art Gallery Large collection of bolt end printing blocks Hatting Museum The Marsland Pattern Books Stockport Air Raid Shelters Chadkirk Chapel Tameside Museum Service Museum of the Manchesters Astley Cheetham Art Gallery - Stalybridge Only other Regimental collections Museum of the Manchesters - Ashton-u-Lyne Portland Basin Industrial Heritage Centre Town Hall Civic Silver Displays

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums - Burnley C19 painting in various museums inc Towneley Hall Blackburn Museum of Local Crafts & Industries Harris Art Gallery - Preston Natural History Centre & Aquarium Oldham Art Gallery etc

Egyptology Bolton Museum Warrington Museum Manchester Museum

Art Collections Many other museums & galleries in the NW have fine art collections which are of a similar size & cover some of the same general areas as our owne.g. Bury Blackburn etc

As a whole the NW is rich in colls of C19 British painting

More specific links are harder to pinpoint University of Liverpool Not at present Art Gallery & Collections Museum of Archaeology & Oriental Studies Museum of Dentistry

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Museum Collections Which if Linked Would Constitute a Significant Collection Warrington Museum & Art Gallery Provide important overview of the region’s glass making production by possibly linking glass manufacture collection at Warrington with relevant museums in St Helens Manchester Liverpool

Link spider & reptile collections of L Greening with Liverpool Museum - creating a grouping of national significance

Mollusc collections (British & foreign) to be linked with Manchester Museum - creating a grouping of international significance Windermere Steamboat Museum Not really

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