Easter Sunday and Monday the museum is open, so come and have some famly fun finding the lost bunnies There are eight fun facts to find out about rabbits. Get a sweet treat if you can remember one or more of them. Don’t miss out!
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1950’s Bassett-Lowke tool maker and model engineer Walter Newcombe worked at the Bassett-Lowke model engineers in Northampton during the 50’s/60’s. In his spare time at home in his garden shed workroom he scratch built three beautiful models (LMS Royal Scot 4-6-0, LMS Stanier 2-6-4T and Bulleid designed 1-Co-Co-1 diesel prototype 10201) . Each model was
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Maps are an important navigation aid for transport. One of ours poses an intriguing conundrum – is it Newton Bromshold or should it be Newton Bromswold? One of our volunteers, Chris, just had to find out. You can down load his detailed findings below, but the headline is that there doesn’t appear to be any
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This is an historic moment for the museum as it is our first post on the website. That’s an exciting development for us as we hope we can keep you better informed as to what is on show and bring to your attention what is featured in the museum. The advertising sign shown below is
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Life is full of surprises! Whilst researching the Wellingborough train crash in the Northampton Mercury 9th Sept 1898, I spotted a reference to Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, an Inspector for the Board of Trade. His name rang some bells as he was involved in reporting on the safety aspects of Rushden Station foot bridge before the station
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