What’s on · Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The Tarring Room hosts two or three exhibitions a year, each built from the collection and from things lent by Tarrow families. Every exhibition is free with your museum ticket.

A guard's brass hand lamp from Tarrow station
A guard's brass hand lamp from Tarrow station

The Branch Line, 1886 to 1958

On now in the Tarring Room

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Seventy-two years of the Tarrow Valley Railway, from the first train to the guard who took his lamp home. Tickets, timetables, uniforms and photographs.

About the exhibition

Always on show

Long Gallery: Rope and River

Long Gallery: Rope and River

The surviving 96 metres of the walk, with the machinery, the tools and the boats that carried rope down the Merrin.

Hackling Loft: Town Life

Hackling Loft: Town Life

Upstairs, where hemp was once combed: shops, kitchens, the school and the people of Tarrow from the 1860s to the 1970s.

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