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Submitted by Sunny100 on Thursday, 19 January 2012  Page Views: 7602

MuseumsSite Name: Bacup Natural History Society Museum Alternative Name: N.A.T.S (Bacup)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.463 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Lancashire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Bacup
Map Ref: SD869231
Latitude: 53.704163N  Longitude: 2.199916W
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Bacup Natural History Society Museum
Bacup Natural History Society Museum submitted by Sunny100 : Bacup Natural History Museum (N.A.T.S) on Yorkshire Street (Todmorden Road), Bacup. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Lancashire

The Bacup Natural History Society Museum (N.A.T.S) is located at 24 Yorkshire street close to Bacup town centre. Go up Yorkshire street (Todmorden Road) the A681. The museum stands beside the road next to a heritage garden.

Run by volunteers, it houses collections of dometic, industrial, religious and military artefacts. [What is not generally known is that there is a small collection of Neolithic to Bronze-Age arrow-heads and flints from the Tooter Hill prehistoric settlement near Bacup]. Some 4,000 photographs and 2,000 old books covering old Bacup can also be seen in the museum.

As it is run by volunteers the museum is only open on Thursday evenings from 7.30 pm. Free admission. Donations welcome. Everybody welcome. Winter lectures are held here from Oct - March every other Saturday evening at 7 pm - everybody is welcome.

The Bacup Natural History Museum (N.A.T.S) 24 Yorkshire Street, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 9AE. Phone 01706 873042. Website:- http://www.bacupnaturalhistorysociety.co.uk/

Next to the museum there is a heritage garden with a number of local curiousities built into the walls, including a possible Celtic stone head ? an animal head, and a rare, very large large manually operated millstone cum corn grinder. Worth having a look round the little garden.
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Bacup Natural History Society Museum
Bacup Natural History Society Museum submitted by Sunny100 : Curious stone head, locally referred to as a "Celtic Head", is built into the wall of the heritage garden (Wall of History) next to the Bacup Natural History Society Museum (N.A.T.S) on Yorkshire Street (Todmorden Road). According to the notice board in the garden, the carved stone head was taken from the chimney of Rockcliffe Vale Mill, Bacup, on its day of demolition 14th April 1913. The he... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SD8623 : Bacup Natural History Society & Museum by Alexander P Kapp
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Re: Bacup Natural History Society Museum by Sunny100 on Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Blodwen goes home to Llandudno tomorrow 18th February 2015. Here is a link from September last year http://www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/local-news/bones-of-contentionblodwen-goes-home-7749783
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Re: Bacup Natural History Society Museum by Sunny100 on Saturday, 21 January 2012
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Blodwen the 3,510 year old female skeleton from the Great Orme resides in the Bacup Natural History Society Museum, Lancashire. http://www.bacupnaturalhistorysociety.co.uk/blodwen.htm
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