As part of the redevelopment, a cafe and shop were added adjacent to the museum, and the Steward's Gallery was also refurbished as an exhibition area.

[4] Surviving original features, such as gas lights, servant's bells and fireplaces, in the Steward's House remain in place.

[5] The North West Sound Archive was located on the third floor of the museum; this was founded in Manchester in 1979 and relocated to Clitheroe in 1982;[1] however it was closed in 2015.

[6] Three small landscapes of riverside scenes and an armorial hatchment: Boating at Brungerley by Benjamin Satterthwaite (1848–1923).

[7] Satterthwaite depicts three people in a boat at the bank of the River Ribble close to Brungerley Bridge.

[7] The painting depicts the River Ribble, possibly at Great Mitton, around three miles from Clitheroe, The church in the background appears to be All Hallows.

An armorial hatchment which belonged to General Monk (1608–1670), a professional soldier who fought both for the Royalists and the Parliamentarians during the Civil Wars.

A hatchment is a panel bearing a coat of arms, this would have been hung on the front of a building to inform visitors that a death had taken place.

[9] Around 1871 he began attending art classes at the Mechanics Institute in Lancaster and by 1881 he had begun exhibiting his work, mainly in the North West.

He was frequently commissioned to paint sporting scenes of game birds and gun dogs at grouse and pheasant shoots.

An industrial chemist, he worked at Joseph Peel and Co., a London Calico printing firm, then managed their branch at Church, near Accrington.

[10] In 1810, Thomson set up a successful calico printing business in Clitheroe, in partnership with a Blackburn cotton merchant, John Chippendale.