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North Cornwall Museum

THE CLEASE • CAMELFORD

"This remarkable Museum" - The Good Museums Guide
"Collecting the cream" - The Sunday Times Good Museums Guide
"Putting the old life on show" - The Daily Telegraph

Opened in 1974, this privately-owned museum is set in a building that was originally used for making coaches and wagons. The museum covers many aspects of life in North Cornwall from fifty to a hundred years ago. These include farming, the dairy, cidermaking and wagons. A special feature is the reconstruction of a moorland cottage at the turn of the century. There are sections on the tools of the carpenter, cooper, blacksmith, saddler, cobbler, tailor, printer, doctor, granite and slate quarryman. On the domestic side there is a wide range of exhibits from lace bonnets to early vacuum cleaners and a collection of Cornish and Devonshire pottery.

The Gallery has changing exhibitions throughout the season of crafts and paintings.

The Museum and Gallery are open from
1st April - 30th September, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
daily except Sundays

FREE COUNCIL CAR PARK OPPOSITE

TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE
Phone / Fax (01840 212954

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THE MANY ITEMS
TO BE SEEN AT THE MUSEUM

Adze,   Auger,   Anvil, Butter Hands, Brace & Bit, Cart, Chisel, Cramp, Dung Harle, Dibber, Drill, Evil, Engraving Blocks, Flasket, Files, Fish Hooks, Gully   Shovel, Grapnel, Hay Pike, Hammer, Hoe, Ink Well, Irons, Inhaler, Jumper, Jack, Jerry Iron, Kieve, Kettle, Knife, Lemon Squeezer, Last, Mill Bill & Thrift, Muller, Needles, Nails, Nightdress, Ox Shoes, Ounce Weight, Printing Press, Pot, Posser, Quarrying Tools, Quilt, Railway Poster, Router, Scythe, Shoes, Skep, Saws, Truncheon, Tongs, Traps, Upholsterer's Hammer, Visgey, Veneering Tools, Wagon, Wedge, Wheels, X, Yoke and Zax

 Come and have fun whilst learning about old cornwall