2021 updates and improvements

We’ve been busy during lockdown upgrading a number of displays, notably a brand new dollhouse furniture display space.

• December
  • Georges Carette, Gauge 1 hand-painted electric continental Tram Trailing Summer-Car circa 1904
• November
  • Georges Carette, Gauge 1 hand-painted electric continental Tramcar circa 1904
• October
  • Meccano Electrical Accessory Outfit
  • Mechanics Made Easy set
  • Meccano Mechanised Army anti-aircraft gun
• September
  • Trix TTR Royal Scot presentation set
• August
  • Only known surviving example of a ghost-grey 1930s Bassett-Lowke “Silver-series” A4 locomotive, now on central layout
• July
  • Mettoy tinplate dollhouse mounted on a turntable to show front and back, operated by pushbutton
• June
  • Room-box, Dol-Toi kitchen furniture
• May
  • Dol-Toi dollhouse furniture, pristine boxed sets
  • Waddy Productions Builderbit card dollhouse furniture, built and unbuilt sets
  • Hornby Wall display cleaned
  • Large agricultural models moved to lobby
  • Minic ships display moved to Arch Four, near to the main ships cabinet
• April
  • New Britains Floral Garden display finally completed
  • Achingly rare Meccano Ltd. Dolly Varden dollhouse installed
  • Room-box display of Wells-Brimtoy My Dolly’s Kitchen Range
  • All four boxed sets of Dinky Toy Dollhouse Furniture
• March
  • Tri-ang Dollhouse number 77, with lighting and Barton furniture
  • Mettoy Lithographed tinplate dollhouse, on rotating stand, with lighting and original furniture
  • Kleeware Dollhouse furniture display area
  • IT refit, with all-new new computers for staff and volunteers
• February
  • The Trix Twin Railway 1939 Flying Scotman presentation set
  • Work starts in earnest on replacing the old Ambulance Station display with a new additional display of dollhouse and dollhouse furniture
• January
  • Primus Engineering Passenger Coach 254
  • Primus Engineering Station House 302