Staithes Museum

For generations of people in Staithes, Marie Lowden was simply “the Toffee Lady”: the woman on the High Street who made and sold her own crackly toffee. But behind that familiar village memory was a woman who had already lived several lives before she began selling sweets — and who, in later life, became a remarkably prolific published writer. There are some people who become part of a place so completely that their names almost become attached to the landscape. In Staithes, Marie Lowden is...

" Youth with swift feet walks onward in the way, The land of joy lies all before his eyes." In 1927, a party of schoolchildren from Royds Hall School in Huddersfield came to Staithes for their summer camp. We don't know very much about the school from our own collection, but we do have something rather better: their school magazine, The Roydsian, in which the campers recorded their adventures. There is poetry about the cliffs and sea, an enthusiastic recommendation of Staithes as a holiday...

Hello everyone, The September newsletter is here! This month we’ve got lots of Arts Festival excitement, including Colin’s Captain Cook talk, our poetry competition, Bill Hinchley’s memorial board, and a rather lovely little doll who has managed to connect together half a dozen bits of Staithes history. There’s also an update on my apprenticeship exhibition ideas, a bit more about Eileen Huby’s incredible family history research, and details of our volunteer open day on 1 October. And, most...