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  • New Season Opening Hours 2025

    10 December 2024

    Our opening hours in 2025: Coffee House opening times (10am to 4pm) resume on Thursday 2 Jan 2025 The Museum...

  • Settle Market Square

    6 December 2024

    Museum no: 2022.1.35.4 Date: 1881-1898 Photographer: Michael Horner Object type: Wet plate collodion glass plate negative (digitally inverted) Location: Market Square, Settle This photograph...

  • Michael Horner setting up photography equipment

    4 December 2024

        Museum no: 2022.1.37.1 Date: 1867? Photographer: Possibly Anthony Horner Object type: Gelatin silver film negative. Copy negative from an earlier print...

  • Who was Dr Buck?

    20 February 2024

    Dr Charles William Buck (1851-1932) was born in Kirkgate, Settle, the son of Richard Hardacre Buck and his second wife,...

  • What’s an ‘Accredited’ museum?

    31 October 2023

    Accreditation The Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly was delighted to receive the news that we had achieved...

  • Museum wins two major awards to build ‘Community Catalogue’

    4 September 2023

    The North Craven Building Preservation Trust  has received grants of £250,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the...

  • NCBPT buys the former NatWest Bank in Settle

    22 August 2023

    The North Craven Building Preservation Trust has purchased the Grade II listed, former NatWest Bank on the Market Place in...

  • Folly Coffee House wins Museum Cafe of the Year award

    10 May 2023

    We’re delighted that the Folly Coffee House has won the prestigious title of Museum Café of the Year at the...

  • Trust celebrates funding news

    17 March 2022

    We are delighted to announce that The Folly will receive £270,500 from the MEND fund, which helps safeguard nation’s cultural...

  • A Brief History of Ice-Cream Sandwiches

    5 October 2021

    Did you know that the Museum of North Craven Life is home to not one, but two, ice-cream sandwich makers?!...

  • What’s in an online exhibition? 

    30 June 2021

    If (like me) you are new to the Museum of North Craven Life, you might be wondering where to start....

  • Meet Our Bloggers…

    6 May 2021

    Hello! We are Ashleigh and Jess, the two new digital content volunteers at the Museum of North Craven Life –...

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