Amberley Working Museum
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Amberley Working Museum is a museum in Amberley, Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1979 and is a 36 acre (146,000 m²) open air museum, next to Amberley railway station dedicated to the industrial heritage of the south east. The museum is built on the site of a former chalk quarry where the chalk was converted into lime for use in mortar & cement.
Exhibits & Collections
- BT Connected Earth
- EDF Energy Electricity Hall
- Vintage Wireless
- Southdown Bus Collection / Omnibus
- Narrow Gauge Railway
- Woodturner
- Wheelwright
- Machine Shop
- Ironmonger Shop
- Steam Crane & Timber Yard
- Village Garage
- De Witt Kilns
- Paviours Hall of Road Making
- Cycle Exhibition
- Rural Telephone Exchange
- Amateur radio station
- Arundel Gin Building
- Brickyard Drying Shed
- Concrete Exhibition
- Municipal Engine House
- Fairmile Cafe
- Dover Cottage Pump House
- Water Pumping Display
- Stationary engine Shed
- Brewery & Laundry
- Locomotive Shed
- Bagmakers Shed
- Quarry Tunnel AKA Mainstrike Mine (Appeared in James Bond film A View to a Kill)
- Nature Trail / Natural History
See also
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