Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly, Settle
Literature
The items of further information and reading listed below are available for
download (filesizes and formats are given; clicking on a link below may open
a new browser window):
The Folly's information leaflet
- Leaflet
(issued Jan 2009; previous edition Aug 2005) (PDF* 0.5Mb)
Information for Visitors leaflet
- PDF
(issued 2004) (PDF* 277Kb)
History of the Folly
- The identity of Richard Preston: a note by Richard Hoyle, 2011 pdf
(150kb)
History of the Museum (extract from the 2011 Exhibition)
- Two Trusts - One Museum: pdf
(2Mb)
- Highlights of the Last 35 years: pdf (2Mb)
- Ten Years of Exhibitions: pdf (2Mb)
The above three boards are also available in alternative formats
in the 2011 Exhibitions page.
Permanent display boards (previous edition:
2003; revised 2011)
Transcript of 2003 Farrer exhibibition display boards
Copy of 2004 "Century of Service" exhibition leaflet
(text only)
Transcript of 2005 temporary exhibibition display boards (HTML only)
Transcript of 2007 temporary exhibibition display boards (HTML only)
Powerpoint presentation on 'Connections' publication (pub 2007) and
exhibition (2006)
- A presentation was given at a seminar organised by the Yorkshire
Dales Society as part of a Dales Heritage day held in Skipton Town Hall
on 16 September 2007. The presentation is available as a Powerpoint presentation
connections.ppt
(4.8Mb) and a PDF connections.pdf
(872kb). You will need a suitable viewer for both formats. Copyright applies.
2009 Temporary Exhibition: Archive Alive! Celebrating
North Craven Past and Present
- Transcript of all the exhibition boards at Archive
Alive!
- Display board (introduction) "Celebrating North Craven Past and Present":
pdf
(500kb) jpg
(60kb)
- Display board (1) "Celebrating North Craven Past and Present":
pdf
(1Mb) jpg
(57kb)
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An article on the Archive Alive! Exhibition appears in "Dales Heritage"
(Issue 10, April 2009, p3). A one-page PDF is available on this website
(PDF,482kb) with thanks and acknowledgements to the Dales Heritage partnership
of Yorkshire
Dales National Park Authority, Craven
District Council, Richmondshire
District Council and Yorkshire
Dales Millennium Trust. A pdf of the full issue is available on the Yorkshire
Dales National Park Authority website at: pdf
(5Mb); also via Craven
Museum & Gallery, Yorkshire Dales Millenium
Trust, or Yorkshire
Dales National Park Authority
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A collection of Richard Hardacre's verses. These are extracts
from the poems written for the years 1828 - 1839 mentioning: the hard times felt
by local cotton weavers; the new Workhouse at Giggleswick; the building of Settle
Town Hall and churches at Settle, Rathmell and Skipton. The poem is read by Stewart
Robertshaw and recorded by Long Preston History Group. Many thanks to them for
permission to feature it here: click on the sound
file to listen to Richard Hardacre's poems (MP3, 678kb)
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"Dances from Yorkshire" collected locally by Leta Douglas in
the 1930s and published by the English
Folk Dance and Song Society as "Dances from the Yorkshire Dales". Played here
by Jackie Fish on the accordian. Many thanks to Jackie and John for their work
and for permission to feature them here: click on the link to play the song: Huntsman's Chorus
(MP3, 11Mb); Buttered
Peas (MP3, 9Mb); Brass Nuts (MP3, 7Mb);
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"The Ingleton Waterfall Walk" film: The exhibition included
a short film about the history of the Ingleton Waterfalls Walk, lasting about
6½ minutes. On this website, this is a 3-minute extract from the beginning
of the film. The film was made for the exhibition by Peter Rollinson and his
Pioneer Project 'crew' from Bentham Looking Well (http://www.pioneerprojects.org.uk/lookingwell.html).
Many thanks to Peter Rollinson for providing the extract and permission to place
the extract of the film on the Museum's website. The film & extract are
copyright Peter Rollinson 2009. Extract: waterfall_video.flv
(Flash video file/format, flv, 13.1Mb).
- Photographs of the exhibition at photos
2009 Temporary Exhibition: A century of Craven District Football Association
- Transcript of the exhibition boards text pdf
2010 Temporary Exhibition: Water
- Transcript of the "Water in North Craven" display boards pdf
(9Mb, PDF only)
2011 Temporary Exhibition: "Challenge and Change"
- "Challenge and Change" display boards: panels (webpage/text); pdf
(PDF, 21Mb)
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for details
For details of different year's exhibitions, please see:
- 2001 (Burton-in-Lonsdale Pottery, 1927 Eclipse; details unavailable for this
on this website at present)
- 2002 (Jubilee celebrations, Settle Primary School; details unavailable for
this on this website at present)
- 2003 (Reginald Farrer, Celia King & Ruth Pavla Davey, Lillian Clark)
- 2004
(A Century of Service, Education in Malhamdale)
- 2005 ('On the Home Front: North Craven in Wartime', Stitching the Story: Art Connections)
- 2006 ('Connections: artists and writers in North Craven'; Nov/Dec: Philippa Troutman)
- 2007
(Elgar's 150th birthday; Settle College centenary; Settle Orchestra 40th anniversary)
- 2008 (Annie Farrer; Forest of Bowland; Horner Collection Photographs)
- 2009
(Archive Alive; Sheep - Kate Lynch; Craven FA
Centenary)
- 2010
(Malham Family of Painters, Landscapes of the Ribble)
- 2011
(Challenge and Change: 350 Years in the Life of A House and its Region)
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