Category: Cliffe Castle

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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Butterfields

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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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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Cliffe Castle

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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Cliffe Castle

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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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Callum, currently working on archiving and researching around the wonderful collection of British Wool clothing we have which was designed and created for the British Food and Farming Year, 1989
As 'Dreams and Songs to sing' at Cartwright Hall is being to draw to end (The final day of the exhibition is on the 8th September), we wanted to share a couple more of the stories from the community that are in the exhibition