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Ironstone Cottage and Victorian Parlour

Step inside the Ironstone Cottage and peek into a Victorian Parlour.

Ironstone Cottage

Step inside the Ironstone Cottage. Explore home life in a typical Scunthorpe working class house. The Ironstone Cottage originally stood on Church Street, Scunthorpe. It was rebuilt at the Museum in 1963.

Visitors can handle all objects in the cottage.

The front room of the Ironstone Cottage.

Victorian Parlour

Peek through the window of the original Frodingham Vicarage parlour. The room is set out as a typical Victorian parlour. Featuring an original display case containing fossil specimens from the Canon Cross Collection. The chimneypiece from Bottesford Manor has the crest of the Peacock family.

The Ironstone Cottage and Victorian Parlour are located on the ground floor of the Museum.

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Victoria Parlour in the museum, dark wood grandfather clock and bookshelf

Curators Choice – The Victorian Parlour

A closer look at the Victorian Parlour.

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member of the museum team, wearing a black polo shirt holding a metal iron in the ironstone cottage

Curators Choice – The Ironstone Cottage

A closer look at the Ironstone Cottage.

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