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Originally Posted by steeljack
apart from the Tiffany Glass , which is okay for maybe two or three trips with visiting out of towners what other good stuff is "rat-holed" away , any Lowries or Helen Bradley's that no one knows about ? (or have they been sold off), sure lots of stuff was donated/given in the old days by the 'Cotton Barons' who seemed to have had lots of civic pride .
Seems to me more folk know about the Helmshore textile mill museum , or the Lewis in Blackburn than the Haworth in Accy
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Sadly the Lewis Textile Museum, bequeathed by Thomas Boys Lewis to the people of Blackburn, is no more. The property was vacated, and the collection added to that of the museum on Museum Street.
Look how easy it is for our heritage to disappear, which local benefactors thought would in the care of safe hands.
The same could easily happen to some, or all of the Haworth's collection.
Again I point out as an example the donation of Oswald House, donated and used as a museum in Oswaldtwistle, until it was sold off commercially by the council of the day, and it's collections dispersed.