Author: TheFolly
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New Season Opening Hours 2025
Our opening hours in 2025: Coffee House opening times (10am to 4pm) resume on Thursday 2 Jan 2025 The Museum...
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Settle Market Square
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...
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Michael Horner setting up photography equipment
Museum no: 2022.1.37.1 Date: 1867? Photographer: Possibly Anthony Horner Object type: Gelatin silver film negative. Copy negative from an earlier print...
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Who was Dr Buck?
Dr Charles William Buck (1851-1932) was born in Kirkgate, Settle, the son of Richard Hardacre Buck and his second wife,...
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What’s an ‘Accredited’ museum?
Accreditation The Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly was delighted to receive the news that we had achieved...
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Museum wins two major awards to build ‘Community Catalogue’
The North Craven Building Preservation Trust has received grants of £250,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform the...
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NCBPT buys the former NatWest Bank in Settle
The North Craven Building Preservation Trust has purchased the Grade II listed, former NatWest Bank on the Market Place in...
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Folly Coffee House wins Museum Cafe of the Year award
We’re delighted that the Folly Coffee House has won the prestigious title of Museum Café of the Year at the...
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Trust celebrates funding news
We are delighted to announce that The Folly will receive £270,500 from the MEND fund, which helps safeguard nation’s cultural...
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A Brief History of Ice-Cream Sandwiches
Did you know that the Museum of North Craven Life is home to not one, but two, ice-cream sandwich makers?!...
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What’s in an online exhibition?
If (like me) you are new to the Museum of North Craven Life, you might be wondering where to start....
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Meet Our Bloggers…
Hello! We are Ashleigh and Jess, the two new digital content volunteers at the Museum of North Craven Life –...
