Qualla: Clifton Park and Museum https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/clifton-park-and-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clifton Park and Museum https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum Clifton Park and Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum/ Photo credit Warofdreams, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two porcelain rhinoceroses sit somewhere in a glass case in Rotherham. They are not exactly rhinoceroses. They are the porcelain Rhinoceros Vase, one of two ever made, produced in the 1820s by the Rockingham Pottery as a showpiece for the firm's most extravagant work. The other is held elsewhere. Both have survived for two hundred years partly through luck and partly because municipal museums in industrial towns sometimes turn out to contain treasures that no one in the larger art world is paying attention to.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/clifton-park-and-museum-wp/gcrp-clifton-park-and-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clifton Park and Museum: John Carr's House https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum/ Photo credit Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0. Clifton House was designed by John Carr of York, the prolific Yorkshire architect responsible for Harewood, Buxton Crescent and dozens of country houses across the north of England, and completed in 1784 for Joshua Walker. Walker was an iron and steel industrialist, part of the W...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/clifton-park-and-museum-wp/gcrp-clifton-park-and-museum-john-carrs-house.mp3 0:06 2 full Clifton Park and Museum: Rockingham, Templeborough and a Cape Lion https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum/ Photo credit Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The collections that grew there reflect Rotherham itself: local industrial history, archaeology, natural sciences, coins, medals, fine and decorative arts. Roman remains from Templeborough, the auxiliary fort that stood at the confluence of the Don and the Rother, occupy a sectio...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/clifton-park-and-museum-wp/gcrp-clifton-park-and-museum-rockingham-templeborough-and-a-cape-lion.mp3 0:06 3 full Clifton Park and Museum: Closed for the Refurbishment https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum/ Photo credit Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2003 the museum closed its doors for a major refurbishment funded in part by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The £3 million programme covered the roof, the heating systems, the stonework, the windows and the electrical systems, alongside new displays, a study room, a cafeteria and ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/clifton-park-and-museum-wp/gcrp-clifton-park-and-museum-closed-for-the-refurbishment.mp3 0:06 4 full Clifton Park and Museum: The Park Around It https://qualla.com/clifton-park-and-museum/ Photo credit Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Clifton Park itself was opened on 25 June 1891 by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. The Park is Grade II listed by Historic England, the gate piers grade-listed in their own right, and the layout has accumulated features over more than a century: a commemorative beech p...

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