What's On at Cawthorne Museum

EVENTS AND SOCIETY LECTURES

Lectures: Mondays at 7:30 pm, Parish Room, Church Lane, Cawthorne
£4 visitors, £3 members, refreshments included

2026

2Oct

The Museum on Our Great Yorkshire Life

Channel 5, Series 3 Episode 4

Watch on Channel 5
12Oct

The History & Industrial Heritage of the Sheffield Canal

Alan Dulcamara & Kevin Turner
9Nov

A Village Shaken: The Dark History of the Murder of P.C. Austwick, Dodworth, 1886

Hilary Robinson

Copies of her book will be on sale
14Dec

How the Tudors Celebrated Christmas

Maureen S Taylor

Mulled wine & mince pies will be served

2027

11Jan

The Development of the Wortley Top Forge Site over 400 Years

Jan Brown
8Feb

Sandal Castle: If Only These Walls Could Talk

Ian Downes, Wakefield Museums Service
8Mar

Tellin’ t’ Tale

Rod Dimbleby

Dialect poems and tales, with background on the Yorkshire Dialect Society
26Apr

Views of Cawthorne

Chris Moxon

Following the Society’s AGM

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Catherine Warr Feature

Historian and filmmaker Catherine Warr explored the museum and some of our unusual items. This is a great introduction and sneak peek if you're considering a visit. Watch on YouTube.

Play Catherine Warr's video about the museum

Permanent Collections

There are exhibits of domestic bygones, war-time relics, royal memorabilia, and natural history. The work of local artists like Abel Hold, John Nattes, Samuel Swift and Roddam Spencer Stanhope. There is also a collection of unusual items including:

A two headed lamb
A mongoose fighting a cobra
A figure of John Wesley made from a whale’s vertebra
A boy’s boot wrecked when struck by lightning
A stereoscope
A cheetah (stroked by many children over the years)
A Victorian coffin bier
A 9½lb gall stone from a horse (we now know that the stone is from a horse’s intestine as horses do not have gall bladders, but we like to keep the story)
And so much more!