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 the car in the spacious car park, we entered the new reception area and paid our entry fee [...]
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 and is quite difficult to [...]
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 [...]
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 the car and entered. After passing through reception (prices being [...]
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 straight to the door and there were plenty of parking spaces to choose from on our arrival. We were looking forward to this visit as we had been told [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]