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Wayside Folk Museum

Zennor, nr St Ives, Cornwall TR26 3DA

Tel: 01736 796945

website:
www.chycor.co.uk/tourism/zenor-museum/zenor-museum.htm

In the 1930s Colonel 'Freddie' Hirst started a collection of relics peculiar to Zennor. That collection was the basis of the Wayside Folk Museum, a privately owned museum which portrays the lives of ordinary people in the area through its displays of artefacts, stories and photographs. Inside 16 display areas contain more than 5,000 items including blacksmith's and wheelwright's equipment, a cobbler's shop, an 18th century kitchen, relics of local mining and quarrying and early agricultural implements. In the grounds are two waterwheels from the mining industry and a unique collection of corn grinding querns and stone tools dating back as far as 3000 BC. Bridge House Gift & Book Shop specialises in things Cornish as well as providing light refreshments.

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