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Dingles Steam Village and Fairground Heritage Centre.Top: Fowler Road Roller.Upper middle: Marshall Traction Engine ?Titan?Lower middle: Burrell Showman?s Engine, ?Rajah?Bottom: Showman?s Living Van.While on a recent holiday in Devon we visited Dingles Steam Village at Lifton, just off of the A30, 7 miles east of Launceston. We followed the brown signs and had no trouble finding it. After parking

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Charles Burrell Museum, Thetford, Norfolk.Top: Machinery in the Charles Burrell Museum.Bottom: Burrell Traction Engine and Road Roller. There are very few museums that can claim to be located in part of the actual works that they are trying to depict but The Charles Burrell Museum is one. Housed in the old paint shop of St. Nicholas Works Thetford, it is tucked away in the centre of town

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Down in deepest Sussex is Amberley Working Museum. The whole complex is built on the site of the old limeworks nestled under the chalk hills of the village of Amberley. Upon entering the the museum you walk out of the reception, where you pay a fairly reasonable entrance fee, into a covered area built from the old tin roofed sheds originally used by the limeworks in its hay day. Passing the old

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Milestones Museum, Hampshire.Top: Tasker Chain Drive tractor.Second: Tasker Economic Traction engine.Third: Tasker wagon.Bottom: Band Stand.Milestones can be found on the Basingstoke leisure park and is signposted on all the approach roads into the town. First impressions of the building are that it resembles more a sports hall rather than a museum, but appearances can be deceptive so we parked

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World of Country Life, Exmouth, Devon.Top: Tasker 3 Ton Tractor.Second: Burrell Showmans Engine His Majesty.Third: Burrell Showmans Engine The Gladiator.Fourth: Fowler Road Loco/Showmans Engine Candyfloss.Bottom: Robey ?Express? Tractor.While on holiday in Devon over the Easter period we visited the Country Life Museum at Sandy Bay, Exmouth. The brown tourist information signposts lead us

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In August, while on holiday in Yorkshire we decided to visit the National Railway Museum in York. We had all heard good things about this museum and so we were looking forward to seeing for ourselves. The first pleasant surprise was that as the N.R.M. is a national, it is free to enter. We passed through the turnstile and went downstairs to the main gallery. The most junior member of our party

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A week away in Norfolk for us in April and we had to visit the Thursford Steam Collection. Having never been there before, we had heard lots of reports from friends and were looking forward to our trip.As we arrived in the car park there was only a handful of cars, then reading the sign on the entrance gate we noticed it didn't open until midday. So at midday off we went, walking down towards the

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Bressingham steam museum is located on the A1066 Diss to Thetford road two and a half miles west of Diss, it is well signposted and can be easily found next to a large garden centre. Admission to the museum is through the garden centre. On entering, our first impressions were good with a narrow gauge railway loco pulling rides around the site and gardens with a fine set of gallopers in the

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While on a short steam based holiday in Norfolk in April we visited the Strumpshaw Steam Museum and as none of us had been there before we were looking forward to the experience. The museum was fairly easy to locate, signposts leading us from the Norwich to Great Yarmouth road straight to the door. On our arrival we began to wonder what we had let ourselves in for as we could see no sign of a

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As we visit many of the Steam related museums around the country we thought it would be good to give people a feel of what we thought of the venues. So our museum review blog will be updated every time we visit a museum. Please make sure you check back regularly or even better use the RSS news feed and a piece of RSS software to be informed automatically when we add a review to this blog.

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