Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum

FROM THE OFFICIAL MUSEUM LEAFLET:

The Victoria Jubilee Museum is a typical Victorian hotchpotch and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Whichever way you turn there is bound to be something of interest to catch your eye.

The Museum Society was formed in 1884 by the Rev. Charles Tiplady Pratt. The museum building was started in 1887 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee and was officially opened in 1889.

There are exhibits of domestic bygones, Victoriana, memorabilia, natural history, local history and local industries. There is also a collection of unusual items including a two headed lamb, a cobra in combat with a mongoose, a mantrap, an intestinal stone from a horse weighing 9 pounds, a boy’s boot wrecked when struck by lightning and there is SO MUCH MORE to see.

Visitors are pleasantly suprised when they step inside, so why not give yourself a treat? We think our little museum it is well worth a visit and we feel very sure that you will not be disappointed.

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FROM THE MUSEUM'S ENTRY ON ABOUT BRITAIN:

School parties are taken round the museum during the week and adult groups often visit, especially summer evenings when if requested we can arrange for the Church to be open for the visit.

...(There are) Butterflies and moths, birds and eggs, fossils, stuffed animals, paintings, domestic bygones, war time relics, old school books and memorabilia, a collection of souvenir china, bottles, a cheetah (stroked by many children over the years), a two headed lamb, a mongoose locked in deadly combat with a cobra, a 9 1/2 pound gall stone from a horse (we now know that horses do not have gall bladders, but we like to keep the story, and the stone is from a horses intestine), a figure of John Wesley made from a whale's vertebra, coins and medals, stereoscope, a man-trap, Victorian coffin bier - the list could go on.

Read more at www.aboutbritain.com/CawthorneMuseum.htm