2018 updates and improvements
- December
- Major upgrade to the Minic Ships display. It now features almost all of the original range (we only have about seven more items to find to complete the collection).
- November
- Stationary Steam Engine, and electrical generator
- October
- Märklin gauge 1 “Crocodile” locomotive.
- September
- Addition of a significant architectural model factory building to the 1930s layout, in memory of Denis Hefford.
- August
- New “locomotives” display shelf under 00-gauge
- We are now plastic-bag-free, thanks to new sponsor Tidmas Townsend Ltd. providing us with classy paper carrier bags!
- July
- New “trains” cabinet for smaller gauges and oddities
- June
- Meccano No.7 set in new display area
- Banner poster above Trafalgar Street
- Two display cabinets in Brighton Station
- May
- Animate Toys display
- Framed “Tri-ang” products catalogue poster, circa ~1938
- Upgraded internet connection, improving public wi-fi
- April
- Elastolin “Cowboys and Indians” display
- March
- Finally, a Museum Guide Book!
- Two more toy theatres,
- Community Rail Partnership agreement signed with Brighton Station
- February
- Three more miniature/toy sewing machines.
- Part of museum floor resurfaced with grip paint
- January – C19th German flat lead figures:
- Battle of Morat
- Viking raid on a Saxon village
- Zoo