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Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery entrance

Courtesy of North Nottinghamshire Newspapers Ltd.

Leeming Street
Mansfield
England

Mansfield's first museum was erected on the site of the present one in 1904. The building, a very large corrugated iron hut, had been a Roman Catholic Church in Southwark, London, and was bought by Mr Bailey to house his natural history collection in Cornwall. Mr Bailey came from Mansfield and decided to give his collection to the town. The present museum was opened in 1938 and consisted of the Whitaker Gallery, the Buxton Gallery and the Lecture Hall. The new Gallery was added in the 1960s. During the 1960s, Miss Rachel Manners bequeathed her very large collection of lustre pottery to the museum. The Old Bailey Museum was demolished in 1935.

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