Here you’ll find objects that trace the material history of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Georgian ceramics, Arts & Crafts metalwork, Victorian domestic pieces, enamel signs and early advertising tins sit alongside miners’ lamps, maritime and military artefacts, and tools of trade from Britain’s workshops and factories.
Folk carvings, painted pub mirrors, early stoneware, railway memorabilia, and regional crafts all have their place here. This is the physical memory of British life - handmade, functional, and often beautifully imperfect.
Newlyn Arts and Crafts hand-hammered copper casket, marked HG c.1900
Museum Schools Service botanical teaching display, lichen specimen, mid 20th century
Victorian English solid bronze carriage horse trade display sculpture, c.1860
Emma Bridgewater Vine spongeware candlesticks, Stoke-on-Trent, 1980s
Antique English fox head riding crop with white metal hunting mounts, c.1890
Marine oil painting by D Reynolds of a galleon in harbour, British School
Beswick Pottery Hereford Bull 'Champion of Champions' 1363A
Victorian gold-filled engraved walking cane with ebonised shaft c.1890
John Ditchfield Glasform large iridescent mushroom with silver butterfly
British Rail Western Region Glanamman signal box diagram in timber frame c.1965–1980s
Victorian brass telescope signed Dancer Manchester with tripod and case, circa 1850
Victorian engraved brass snuff box by William Howe Wolverhampton, dated 1856
Ault pottery tripod amphora vase attributed to Christopher Dresser, 1890s
English Georgian copper grain measure with iron handle and thumb loop
Alan Wallwork British studio pottery stoneware split sphere with leafed interior
Tweedsmuir Glass blue swirl paperweight by Chris Dodds, 1990s
Shorter & Son ‘Oceanic’ majolica fish jug, circa 1935
Antique German pink lustre porcelain St Paul’s Cathedral teapot circa 1900
John Hughes Welsh Grogg pottery Spotty Dog figure, 1970s
Royal Mint sterling silver proof-set plaque pendant, 1984
East Down Church of St John the Baptist watercolour painting, Devon, signed
Unusual British erotic folk art carved figural walking stick, 'HULK IT'S ALL GRUNT'
Welsh miner’s copper snuff box engraved 'William Powell 1899'
WWII British double-sided steel First Aid Point sign, circa 1940
Vintage sterling silver smoky quartz cocktail ring, English hallmark, size I½
Vintage Butlin’s ceramic foot-shaped advertising ashtray circa 1960s
Sterling silver cayenne pepper spoon by Mitchell Bosley Birmingham 1912
Thomas Bush Hardy 'Across the Channel', limited edition print
