Blog
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Christmas and New Year Opening Hours for 2025-26
We are open as normal throughout the festive season except: Christmas Eve: We open as normal and close at 1:30pm...
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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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Horner Collection launches online with 100 years of historic Settle photographs
In March 2021, with support from The V&A Purchase Fund and a successful crowdfunding campaign that raised over £5,000, the North...
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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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North Craven Building Preservation Trust 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?!...
