Key artists and exhibits
• agricultural hand tools ; • farm wagons: there are over thirty in the collection ; • horse drawn ploughs ; • dairying equipment ; • livestock accessories eg horseshoes; veterinary equipment ; • land drainage material ; • country crafts and rural industries; the thatching collection, for example is particularly extensive as is that covering the woodland trades ; • woodworking and carpentry ; • country smocks ; • basketry; corn dollies ; • friendly society brasses ; • beekeeping equipment ; • animal traps ; • sewing machines ; • paintings and prints, especially of early nineteenth century livestock