NCBPT: The Museum at The Folly: Literature

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)

History of the Folly

PDF (PDF^* 24Kb)
HTML

Information for Visitors leaflet

PDF (PDF^* 277Kb)

Transcript of permanent display boards

PDF (PDF^* 41Kb)
HTML

Transcript of 2003 Farrer exhibibition display boards

PDF (PDF^* 36Kb)
HTML

Copy of 2004 "Century of Service" exhibition leaflet (text only)

PDF (PDF^* 52Kb)

Transcript of 2005 temporary exhibibition display boards (HTML only)

Transcript of 2007 temporary exhibibition display boards (HTML only)

Elgar in Craven

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)
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
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)
"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);
"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)

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For details of different year's exhibitions, please see:

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)

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