Hotels near Hornsea Museum
Brook Hotels have one hotel which is near Hornsea Museum, East Yorkshire.
Beverley Arms Hotel
is approx. 13 miles from Hornsea Museum.
Hornsea Museum, Hornsea
Established in 1978 and based in an 18th Century Grade
II listed farmhouse, Hornsea Museum is an award-winning museum and a registered
charity, staffed mainly by volunteers. Step back in time at Hornsea Museum from
the pre-industrial age of the early 1700's through to post second World War Britain
and experience the changing patterns of village life in North Holderness over the
past centuries. Hornsea Museum has won numerous national awards over the years and
imaginative and informative displays present the personalities, characters, tools,
trades of the local area to make what is an extensive and fascinating discovery.
The many rooms of the farmhouse and its outbuildings are on display in their authentic
guise. The kitchen with its huge ingle-nook fireplace, dating from the early 1700s,
the parlour - decorated in Victorian style with many ornaments and the Victorian
Bedroom with its typical mid-Victorian mahogany furniture, half-tester bed and child's
bed.
The Dairy contains various utensils used for butter making featuring milk churns
and local milk bottles.
The workshops contain many of the tools used by village craftsmen such as wheelwrights,
coopers, joiners, leatherworkers and carpenters 100 years ago. The tools on show
range from spoke-shaves, planes, clamps, cramps, augers, and braces, to measuring
tools and pitsaws which were used to cut planks by hand.
The Cart Bays display many household and agricultural devices featuring examples
such as an early hand-operated wooden washing machine, and horse drawn farming implements,
showing the changes in farming technology, such as a locally manufactured wooden
plough and adjustable hoes made in the 1930s.
The Photograph Exhibition Room is an archive of local photographs and postcards
showing how little has changed in the area over the years. Featuring many rare photographs
such as the tented Hornsea Coliseum Skating Pavilion, thatched cottages in Mappleton
and Seaton, and the old post offices in Skirlaugh and Hornsea.
The content in the Display Room changes from time to time and has featured such
items as children's toys and dolls, jigsaws, card games, paint boxes, a Merrills
board and Hornby trains. The Local Industry Display Room displays photographs and
examples of many local industries and examples of local railway memorabilia.
The Schoolroom is an authentic Victorian school room. View life through the eyes
of a 19th century child wearing Victorian clothes, sitting on hard wooden benches
and writing on slates. During organised school visits, a teacher will be on hand
to ensure that silence is, and remains, golden.
Equipment used on Victorian washday can be seen inside The Laundry or Washhouse
as it was more commonly called, and in the yard outside. You will see a copper that
needed a well-stocked fire to heat the water drawn from the well, that was used
to wash clothes in either a wooden wash tub, dolly tub, or a hand-operated washing
machine, an example of which can be seen in The Cart Bays.
The 18th century authentic Barn explores the farming which dominated the life of
the village, with many farm implements on display including hay forks, mole traps
and gin traps (which are now illegal).
The Victorian Street scene 'Burn's Lane' is a fairly new addition to Hornsea Museum
and runs down the centre of the main museum complex. The street contains a number
of shop fronts designed in Victorian style. In the shop windows are a wide variety
of goods that would have been found in the high street of a Victorian market town.
Along the cobbled street is an Ironmonger's shop, displaying a range of hardware,
an Apothecary displaying a range of medicinal products and a Barber's shop, complete
with traditional red and white pole.
The museum recently acquired an enormous amount of pottery, designs and other archive
material following the closure of the world famous Hornsea Pottery. The material
is of great importance and has been described by a national authority as one of
the most complete records of a pottery in the UK. There are also a number of souvenirs
which were sold in Hornsea such as crested pottery, German pictorial plates, treen
egg cups and boxes with transfer prints with scenes of old Homsea; a selection of
writing artefacts including quills, penknives, pens, sealing wax and seals, ink
stands and ink wells. A further archive is available to the public and can be found
in the Museum Shop. This is run by The Hornsea Community Heritage Archive Group.
Prints of some of their photographs are available for sale.
Officially opened in October 2008, the Hornsea Pottery Exhibition Rooms are located
in two former cottages and tell the story of how this pottery flourished in the
area, featuring a historical collection of more than 2000 pieces of Hornsea Pottery.
Displayed in chronological order of production, the exhibition shows the wide-range
of designs and techniques that were used over the years. The Hornsea Pottery Exhibition
is the largest public collection in the world and a visit is a fascinating trip
through 50 years of pottery design history. Key exhibits include the "Bust of a
young girl" (by John Clappison & Alan Luckham 1965) and Impasto Wall lights (designed
by John Clappison in 1961).
Hornsea Museum includes audio guides specifically for blind and partially sighted
people and there is also a shop that helps support the running of the Museum and
sells souvenirs, posters, toys and local history books. At the rear of the Museum
are some pleasant and spacious gardens where you can enjoy the views and a picnic,
or even enjoy additional historical items from the old local railway and industries
of the past. There is so much to see here that it will accommodate all tastes and
keep all amused. Ideal for the whole family, there is no better way to spend an
educational afternoon in Yorkshire.
Address
Hornsea Museum
11- 17 Newbegin
Hornsea
East Riding of Yorkshire
HU18 1AB
Official website: www.hornseamuseum.com
Hotels Near Hornsea Museum...
Beverley Arms Hotel
Beverley Arms Hotel
North Bar Within Beverley East
Beverley
East Riding
HU17 8DD
Phone:
+44 (0)1482 869241
Fax:
+44 (0)1482 870907
Distance from Hornsea Museum: 12.8 Miles