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a samurai sitting outside a country house. He looks downhearted and wears a worried frown with one hand tucked up inside of his sleeve. His mino (straw overcoat) and kasa (straw hat) are covered in snow
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Art of the Samurai

Many of our visitors to Cliffe Castle earlier this year enjoyed the exhibition of artwork inspired by or depicting Samurai that we had on display in the Bracewell Smith Hall.

Although the artworks are now safely back in storage, we wanted to be able to share them with you still, so Dale Keeton, our talented conservator, who made it all look spectacular and Ernest, our wonderful volunteer have written this blog to provide some additional insights.

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5 August 2024 No Comments
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Another Butterfield Christmas

One of our wonderful volunteers, Ian, has been busy reading and transcribing elements of the Butterfield archive – most recently he’s been piecing together some of the stories that the receipts and other documents can tell us.  Here’s a timely one for the festive period…

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11 December 2023 No Comments
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The Art of the Samurai

I must apologise to our visitors at Cliffe Castle for the hammering and banging of late but rest assured, it isn’t anything paranormal and just me using a nail gun for the first time!

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20 October 2023 No Comments
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Sew Keighley Pride

We have been delighted to be able to display at Cliffe Castle, the SEW KEIGHLEY PRIDE flag. Keighley Pride’s unique and beautiful flag was created

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2 November 2021 No Comments
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Together We Can

The ‘Together We Can’ exhibition is the result of a creative writing competition between 300 of Keighley’s young people. The project, funded by Bradford Council’s

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21 July 2021 No Comments

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Bradford Industrial Museum

Redeveloping the 1970s Back to Back

Our Assistant Curator of Collections, Emma Longmuir was tasked with leading on an updating of the 1970s focused 'Back to Back' house (part of the ever-popular run of houses illustrating changing lifestyles.
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Mills Transformed – Neil Horsley

Our latest exhibition at Bradford Industrial Museum is gorgeous photography by Neil Horsley, looking at the repurposing and re-use of Mill Buildings. He kindly agreed to write this blog for about the project.
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Bairds Television: Research and remembering

If you visited Bradford Industrial Museum earlier this year you might have spotted the display on Baird Television & Thorn Electricals that we had in our small cafe gallery there.
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Butterfield Brothers – the Businessmen

This latest blog from our volunteer Ian looks at the Butterfield Brothers as business men - which isn't a story we've told before.
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