North Holderness Museum of Village Life

Hornsea Museum sits in the East Riding of Yorkshire town of Hornsea. It occupies an 18th-century farmhouse and two cottages, all built on the site of a late 16th-century farmhouse. The museum is run mainly by volunteers and is a registered charity. It belongs to the Holderness museums group. The Burn family lived in the farmhouse for nearly three centuries. The museum shows life in north Holderness during Victorian times. Inside the farmhouse, visitors see a bedroom, dairy, kitchen, parlour and wash-house arranged as they would have been in the 19th century. Outside, a large garden contains a barn, craft workshops, a Victorian schoolroom and a Victorian street scene. There are also rooms for military history and childhood exhibits. The Whitedale building covers the Hull and Hornsea Railway and local fishing heritage. The cottages hold about two thousand pieces of Hornsea Pottery. The museum holds an oral history archive called Time On My Hands. Over sixty hours of interviews give a picture of early 20th-century life in this remote part of East Riding. The farmhouse itself is a grade II listed building with brick walls, pantile roof and raised gables. Its sliding sash windows and casements remain from the late 18th-century rebuild.