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...tion Toys", compiled and edited by Andrea Dumbrell (Brighton Toy and Model Museum, 2016). ...g with exhibitions and online videos, this book was the culmination of the museum's two-year "Toys in the Community" project (2014-2016), funded by the [[Her

==Brighton Toy and Model Museum wins Heritage Lottery Fund support== Brighton Toy and Model Museum has received £57,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an

==Questions about the museum== ...that keep the lights on. Most of the people that you'll see working at the Museum are actually volunteers, giving their time for free.

...h Laine also created an impressively random set of architectural styles as people crammed small single-and multiple-storey buildings into the available space ...rmation Point]] gives a suggested walking route from the station, past the Museum, through North Laine and down to the [[Brighton Pavilion]].

...The talk concerns the basic idea and founding principles of a possible Toy Museum. It's impressive to note how much of Chris' original 1980s vision became re ==WHY A MUSEUM ? (transcript, circa 1988)==

...ted in no small measure to our knowledge of the manners and customs of the past. So, too, will models made to-day preserve, for our descendants, a visible ...rtioned, hauling by its own steam power, a load of ten or a dozen grown-up people. Or, again, imagine a tiny power boat, which you could carry comfortably un

...extensive manual labour that is naturally more valuable today than in the past. For this reason there are always limits placed on the production capacity. Although strict definitions are difficult, the museum's approach is to consider that:

Although the museum normally shies away from using replicas, in this case we do have the rest o ...bviously as a replica, so that people don't think that other things in the museum might be inauthentic.

...ation wil bring a national treasure back to the South of England, allowing people to experience the luxury and romance of this famous train. We believe that ...ed train." The Brighton link for the project is the wonderful Brighton Toy Museum, which houses one of the world's finest collections of model trains and tin

..._1939).jpg|1939: Map showing the Pavilion Estate, with a hard path running past the Pavilion, directly linking Pavilion Buildings with the North Gate. This ...es]] buildings, which now house the [[Brighton Dome]] venue and [[Brighton Museum and Art Gallery]]. One of last stages of his acquisition was his getting th

'''Transcription series for Brighton Toy and Model Museum Oral History Project''' <br> ''Interview took place on'' Friday " March 2008, during a walk around the museum, starting in his workshop.

...Pullman train. For information on the Friendly Museum Dog, see [[Belle the Museum Dog]]'' {{Quotation2|IT WAS luxurious but racy, the people who travelled in it were unusual, and Brighton in the Thirties and Forties

...rior to unification, Hovians were sometimes understandably defensive about people assuming that they lived in Brighton, the stock response being "''Hove, act ...palanade shelters and in the official crest – a symbol of Hove's seafaring past.

...with the Lockbricks system was the use of multiple parallel faces sliding past each other, with sharp corners sliding through sharp gaps. This gave zero r ...easily, so from now on, any disassembly is going to involve a trip the the museum kitchen and use of the kettle.

...e of assorted (often non-authentic) colours, with a more generic name, for people who just wanted that sort of plane in pretty colours ... for instance, the ...erest of "M.M." readers in aviation has been further stimulated during the past two or three years by the rapid expansion of the Royal Air Force, and by st

...of Stephenson's ''Locomotion No.1'' steam locomotive, made for the Science Museum in Edinburgh|380}} ...were also eyecatching objects in their own right - someone who might walk past a real car or lorry on display, might stop to look at a scale model (especi

...a cure", and the infrastructure that supported visitors was also useful to people needing an overnight stop when making the crossing to Dieppe, France – du ...as becoming an increasing embarrassment to the town that the only way that people could take a ship was by hiring a local boatsman to take them from the beac

...d even when the War was imminent. A Mass Observation study in 1939 charted people's reactions to a campaign for a "Square Deal" between road and rail goods c ...d 156 000 additional people between May and June. One of these carried 449 people to Cornwall and managed to load and clear Vauxhall station in less than thr