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 Kitchen
Range and Utensils
Bothy with an old kitchen range with many tools and utensils
used by hard working housewives of the past.
 Milking
Parlour
Butter churns, separator, butter pats, cream bowls and all
the milk cans and measures.
Washing Room
Full of wash day antiquities.
Agricultural
Dipicting rural life in the North of England of a bygone era,
with farming tools, harness, manuscripts, fishing baskets
& rods, along with china, glass and scrap books chronicalling
the lives of the country people over the years.
Second World War Memorablia
Uniforms and ration books, with letters and garments belonging
to Land Girls who worked in Northumberland during the war,
many now still living in the area.
Nursery
 With
beautiful christening robes, children's toys and a tiny wooden
crib with finely crafted Northumbrian cot quilt.
Northumberland Needlework
With fine
examples of proggy and hooky mats made by women to cover their
cold flagstone floor and excellent examples of early 19th
& 20th century handywork,
There are also ornate buttons, thimbles and old fashioned
spectacles, along with early 20th century photographs of people
still in the region today.
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