Search Keyword 19th century
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1. Exmouth Museum Intro
Exmouth Museum was first opened in 1985 and is housed in a 19th century building which was the Council Stables together with the adjoining foremans cottage. ...
2. Fairlynch Museum Lace
A 19th Century Duchesse Collar on display in the current lace exhibition  ...
3. Torre Abbey, Torquay Paintings
... There are 600 oils and watercolours and the collection is particularly rich in works of the 19th century.  Contemporary paintings are also acquired from ...
4. Allhallows Museum HONITON LACE
... 19th century when lace could be made more cheaply by machine, hand made lace fell out of fashion to the great distress of the people of Honiton. There ...
5. Fairlynch Museum Intro
Fairlynch Museum The early 19th century house was built by a local shipowner and is probably the only thatched  museum in the UK. He added the turret ...
6. Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre 2007 News Items
... event.               Some members of the Heritage Trust committee and volunteer helpers dressed in 19th century style.   The ...
7. Coldharbour Mill Wool Processing, Spinning Machines and Power Looms.
The Georgian Mill built in 1799, houses two examples of Wool Processing. One level shows an early 19th century method for producing Woollen Yarn that ...
8. Coldharbour Mill Introduction
... condition and the 19th Century Steam Engines and Lancashire Boilers may be viewed in their original location.   The Mill Yard affords great views of ...
9. Salcombe Maritime and Local History Museum The Ship Portraits
We possess over thirty 19th century pictures of locally owned and built ships. The pictures were collected by members of the seafaring Ryder family and bequeathed ...
10. Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery Art Collections
... representation of work by artists of the 19th century Newlyn School as well as good 20th century collections including works by the St Ives and Camden ...
11. Exmouth Museum Domestic Bell Assembly
This domestic bell assembly is a Traveller's sample showing the various bell systems for communication between rooms and the servants quarters, late 19th ...
12. Exmouth Museum Exmouth Post Offices
The Post Office was one of the shining achievements of the Victorian age. Started in 1840 with the introduction of the Penny Post, it soon grew to be one ...
13. DCC Heritage and Learning Resource Uniforms and Insignia
A collection of uniforms and insignia, including helmets, medals, footwear, protective wear, signs of rank etc dating from 19th Century to the present ...
14. DCC Heritage and Learning Resource Police Equipment
A collection including truncheons, lamps, whistles, handcuffs, bicycles and cameras dating from the 19th Century to the present day.  ...
15. Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon The Victorian Gallery
North Devon from 1780 to 1914, with an insight into schooling, industry, entertainment, rural life, health, shooting, fishing and ferns.
16. Dartmouth Museum The Henley Study
The Henley Study is a new gallery with interactive exhibits showing the way of life of a Victorian Dartmothian with an interest in Science, Architecture, ...
17. DCC Heritage and Learning Resource Photographic Collection
... 19th century to the present day.  ...
18. Devon & Exeter Medical Society Collection It's no wonder the ladies needed smelling salts
... as a treatment for nervous disorders such as anxiety and hysteria, of which there was an explosion in the late 19th century particularly among women." ...
19. South Molton & District Museum The Newsham Fire Engine was hand-drawn and still used at the turn of the 19th century
The Newsham fire appliance purchased by the corporation of South Molton in 1736 for £46. It is one of the oldest surviving examples of it's ...
20. Museum of Dartmoor Life Introduction
The museum is housed in a 19th century mill set in a cobbled Victorian courtyard. The three floors of exhibits include a wide range of items illustratiing ...