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A small selection of the items to be seen at the museum
Adze, Auger, Anvil, Butter Hands, Brace & Bit, Cart, Chisel, Cramp, Dung Harle, Dibber, Drill, Evil, Engraving Blocks, Flasket, Files, Fish Hooks, Gully Shovel, Grapnel, Hay Pike, Hammer, Hoe, Ink Well, Irons, Inhaler, Jumper, Jack, Jerry Iron, Kieve, Kettle, Knife, Lemon Squeezer Last, Mill Bill & Thrift, Muller, Needles, Nails, Nightdress, Ox Shoes, Ounce Weight, Printing Press, Pot, Posser, Quarrying Tools, Quilt, Railway Poster, Router, Scythe, Shoes, Skep, Saws, Truncheon, Tongs, Traps, Upholsterer’s Hammer, Visgey, Veneering Tools, Wagon, Wedge, Wheels, X, Yoke and Zax
Opened in 1974, this privately run Museum is set in a building that was originally used for making coaches and wagons. The museum covers many aspects of life in North Cornwall from fifty to a hundred years ago.. These include farming, the dairy, cidermaking and wagons. A special feature is the reconstruction of a moorland village at the turn of the last century. There are sections on the tools of the carpenter, cooper, blacksmith, saddler, cobbler, tailor, printer, doctor, granite and slate quarryman. On the domestic side there is a wide range of exhibits from lace bonnets to early vacuum cleaners and a collection of Cornish and Devonshire pottery
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