It is a day which the volunteers have waited for for a long time – but now Knaresborough Heritage Centre is finally opening tomorrow after a four-year campaign.
Set up by the Knaresborough Museum Association , the centre at 12 High Street, will focus on the history of the North Yorkshire town, bringing to its extraordinary and wide-ranging history to life like never before. For a group, which originally started as a pop-up at a heritage festival, they say it is a dream come true. Kathy Allday, chair of KMA, said: “The Heritage Centre is the first of its kind – by the community for the community.
There will also be a film using photos from the excavation of Knaresborough Castle in the 1920s, archaeology from Scriven Park, and munitions and personal artefacts from the former Second World War army and prisoner of war camps. A second exhibition this year will explore the town’s history of linen weaving, which dominated the local economy for nearly 200 years.
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