Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire (Accredited Museum)
This collection has 17,235 items online
A 1920s suburban family home caught in time. Very little has changed or been removed since the Straw's took up residence in 1923. The interior decoration and collection of objects reflects the taste and lifestyle of this local well-to-do grocer family. There is currently a cataloguing and photography project underway at the house which some of the volunteers are heavily involved in. They are getting great pleasure in discovering new items, usually hidden in the drawers and getting up close to others, normally tucked away from sight. We recently discovered a scrap album of sketches by local artist, Charles Edwin Baldock (1876-1941) sketched as a boy, he generally painted horses and pastoral scenes while living in Worksop, until he moved to Nottingham with his grandfather, the sporting artist James Walsham Baldock, in 1884. The collection in the house also includes paintings and other works by Charles Edwin and James Walsham Baldock.