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.

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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