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What do bees and lady’s slippers have in common?

They are the common names of some of the pressed orchids from the 1800s currently on display at Cliffe Castle!

Explore a selection of Bradford District Museums & Galleries’ rare and extinct orchid specimens.

These pressed flowers a part of the nationally important herbarium held at Cliffe Castle, which contains over 60,0000 specimens collected by Leeds-born botanists F. A. Lees (1847- 1921) and W. A. Sledge (1904 -1991). The display explores local collectors and how the specimens collected during the Orchidomania, the Victorian plant-collecting craze, are now being used around the world in plant conservation research.

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Lady’s Slipper and Bees: Pressed Orchids and Their Collectors

Type:Exhibition

Cliffe Castle Museum, Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6LH

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Opening Times

Season (27 Mar 2026 - 27 Sept 2026)
Day	Times
Monday	Closed
Tuesday - Friday	10:00	- 16:00
Saturday - Sunday	11:00	- 16:00
Bank Holiday	11:00	- 16:00

* Monday: Closed

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