Amberley Museum is located in an old chalk quarry in Amberley, West Sussex. The museum aims to document the industrial history of the South East and features a large number of exhibitions on various topics. I’ll start my small selection at the rural telephone exchange: … which has working equipment inside:
There are many other telecommunications exhibits including this collection of dials, complete with a backwards one from New Zealand:
Moving on to road transport, we have a classic AA box:
An Austin 7:
And a recreation of a bus garage:
Next, it’s electricity – a small substation:
Control panels from a power station and a network control room:
… and a collection of domestic plugs and sockets:
In the narrow gauge railway exhibition is this 1ft 10in gauge loco built for the Guinness Brewery in Dublin:
and a wagon from London’s “Mail Rail”:
Outside, you can ride round the site on their narrow gauge railway:
This tunnel, where the chalk was mined, starred as Main Strike Mine in the James Bond film A View To A Kill:
The original industry at the site was the mining of chalk and converting it into lime in these kilns:
Finally, a visit to the Museum of Roadmaking:
An excellent museum and there were lots more things to look at that I haven’t shown. If you’re going, allow most of the day!