Bolling Hall Museum

Bolling Hall offers visitors a fascinating journey through the lives and times of the Bradford families for whom it provided a home over five hundred years.

Situated just a mile from Bradford city centre and situated in a quiet, leafy garden, Bolling Hall was for many years the seat of two important land-owning families, the Bollings and the Tempests.

With parts of the building dating from the Medieval, Bolling Hall is a rambling mixture of styles with every nook and cranny packed with history. During the Civil War the household supported the Royalist cause, and the house provided a stronghold during the ‘siege of Bradford’.

Rooms are furnished and decorated to give an accurate taste of life at different periods of the house’s history, and the fascinating furniture on display includes a superb bed made for Harewood House by Thomas Chippendale.

Spend some time exploring a different side of Bradford’s heritage – but watch out for an appearance by the ‘White Lady’ in the Ghost Room!

Mercer Art Gallery

Come on in! Something for everyone

Otley Museum and Archive Trust

A comprehensive collection of documents and photographs
tells the story of this Wharfedale community
from prehistoric times to the 20th century.
A fascinating insight into Otley’s heritage 
and a key resource for both the amateur and professional researcher.

Pewsey Heritage Centre

Our collection is housed in the former foundry building of Whatley and Hosier, a water and agricultural engineering firm who moved from Wootton Rivers to Pewsey in about 1870. The firm was well located to access coal, steel stock and cast iron brought along the canal to Pewsey Wharf; latterly raw materials would have come in by rail.

After patenting several pump and valve designs, the company flourished and expanded into agricultural engineering with the advent of mechanisation on the farms of the fertile Pewsey Vale in the nineteenth century. The firm, now known as Whatley and Co, built and repaired this equipment as well as manufacturing replacement components.

Whatley’s built a new foundry in 1873 to accommodate their casting and machining work; this is the building in which the Heritage Centre is located. The managing director, Uriah Whatley, made use of cheaply available limestone blocks left over from works associated with the canal and the railway.

The building is a veritable Victorian temple of industry: there are stone semi-circular arches over all doors and windows and a fan shaping of the top glazing panes in the windows. Originally there were huge doors in the west and south walls, capable of allowing a traction engine inside. Despite a fire destroying the original roof in 1919, the remainder of the building is as constructed. The floor of the foundry was originally of sand, to facilitate the casting process. This was concreted over as the use of the building changed. The building was also fitted with a hand operated overhead 5 ton travelling crane, which is still in place.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Moorside Mills was built around 1875 as a small worsted spinning Mill by John Moore. Ownership of the mills changed many times, and they developed and grew. In 1970, Bradford Council bought Moorside Mills from Messrs. W & J Whitehead to create an innovative museum.

Bradford’s Industrial Museum has permanent displays of textile machinery, steam power, engineering, printing machinery and motor vehicles, along with an exciting exhibitions programme. You can enjoy the splendour of Moorside House where the Mill Manager lived, or visit the Mill-workers’ terraced houses dressed to reflect three different time periods.

Fairfax House Museum

Come and unlock the splendour within the finest Georgian town house in England. A classical architectural masterpiece of its age, Fairfax House was originally the winter home of Viscount Fairfax. Its richly decorated interior was designed by York’s most distinguished eighteenth-century architect, John Carr.

Extensively adapted in the twentieth century as a cinema and dance hall, Fairfax House was saved from decay and returned to its former glory by York Civic Trust in 1982-84.

Today, Fairfax House once more transports you to the splendour of city-living in Georgian York, the centre of polite society. The superb Noel Terry collection of furniture, clocks, paintings and decorative arts, described by Christie’s as one of the finest private collections of the twentieth century, perfectly complements the house, bringing it to life and creating a special lived-in feeling.

Knaresborough Castle and Court House Museum

It may seem peaceful now, but Knaresborough Castle was once a mighty stronghold of medieval kings. Take in the awe-inspiring views and then discover the dungeon, ancient graffiti and special secret tunnel. Inside the museum you’ll find tales of local characters including Blind Jack, Guy Fawkes and Mother Shipton. You’ll also find the rare, original Tudor court room where suspected criminals faced public trail.

Museum of Rail Travel

Over 70 TV and film productions have featured restored railway carriages from this multi-award winning museum. Sit in our carriages and imagine what rail travel used to be like. Sound and video presentations help to bring the past to life. Numerous signs, posters and small exhibits.

Adjacent to Ingrow Loco Museum and Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. When the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway trains are operating, Green Day Rover tickets include Keighley & Worth Valley Railway train travel and admission to both museums. Check our website for details of special vintage train days when you can travel in our carriages on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery’s David Hockney Gallery has been shortlisted for a prestigious Museums + Heritage Award.

The Bradford Council art gallery is in the running for a Permanent Exhibition Award which recognises excellence in the creation of a new museum, redevelopment of an existing one or a new permanent exhibition.

The innovative David Hockney Gallery transformed Cartwright Hall’s largest space at into a vibrant, inspirational permanent display dedicated to the life and work of the Bradford-born artist.

Royal Pump Room Museum

Would you go to a bar or café that only sold water? What if it reeked of sulphur? Welcome to Harrogate’s famous Pump Room. First built in 1842, it wasn’t unusual for 1500 glasses of water to be served each morning. The museum now tells the fashionable story of Harrogate and the daily spa routine, a place for health and happiness.

Bring out the bunting! The museum marks its 65th birthday this year. With a nod to the 1950s and our plans to create a museum fit for the future, the Pump Room shows no signs of slowing down. We’ll be out and about with our pop up museum for the first time this year too, so look out for us at local events throughout 2018.