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Links related directly to Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Featured in the 'New Stories' section of the Peopletalk site, an article and 'sound-tour' dedicated to our Museum and its Director, Chris Littledale: http://www.peopletalk.org/toymuseum.html

These pages display artwork done by school children visiting our Museum. The pictures were sent into the www.show.me.uk website and put online in their gallery. Because of the sheer volume of work sent in, the gallery has been divided into sections.
Trains, planes and things with wheels
Teddies, dolls and puppets
Show me Museum Brighton and Hove picture postcard page

Read this personal account of a visit to the Museum by Zoe Bradford for the My Brighton and Hove project: http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/toy_museum_personal.htm

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Local attractions in Brighton and Hove

Brighton Museums: www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info
Brighton Pier: www.brightonpier.co.uk
Brighton Sealife Centre: www.sealifeeurope.com
The British Engineerium: http://www.britishengineerium.com
The Patcham Windmill: www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk/Patcham.htm
West Pier Trust: www.westpier.co.uk

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Attractions in East and West Sussex

The Bluebell Railway: www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway: www.emsr.co.uk
The Kent and East Sussex Steam Railway: www.kesr.org.uk

Amberly Working Museum, Storrington: www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Arundel Museum: www.arundelmuseum.org.uk
Ashdown Forest Llama Park: www.llamapark.co.uk
Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History: www.bexhillcostumemuseum.co.uk
Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, Halland: www.bentley.org.uk
Bodiam Castle: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Buckleys Yesterday's World, Battle: www.yesterdaysworld.co.uk
Cuckfield Museum: www.cuckfield-society.org.uk
De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill: www.dlwp.com
Ditchling Museum: www.ditchling-museum.com
Drusillas Animal Park, Alfriston: www.drusillas.co.uk
East Grinstead Town Museum: http://hodgers.com/eastgrinsteadmuseum
Firle Place, Lewes: www.firleplace.co.uk
Glynde Place, Lewes: www.glyndeplace.com
'How we lived then' Museum of Shops and Social History, Eastbourne: www.how-we-lived-then.co.uk
Knockhatch Adventure Park, Hailsham: www.knockhatch.com
Knockhatch Ski and Snowboard Centre: www.ski-knockhatch.com
Middle Farm, Lewes: www.middlefarm.com
Newhaven Local and Maritime Museum: www.newhavenmuseum.co.uk
Newhaven Fort: www.newhavenfort.org.uk
Paradise Park, Newhaven: www.paradisepark.co.uk
Pevensey Castle: www.english-heritage.org.uk
Seven Sisters Sheep Centre, Eastbourne: www.sheepcentre.co.uk
Sussex Past: Museums and Properties: www.sussexpast.co.uk
The Charleston Farmhouse, Lewes: www.charleston.org.uk
The Observatory Science Centre, Herstmonceux:
www.the-observatory.org
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Gallery: www.tunbridgewells.gov.uk
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton: www.wealddown.co.uk
Winnie the Pooh Corner, Hartfield: www.pooh-country.co.uk

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Museum Links (outside Sussex)

Bethnal Museum of Childhood:www.vam.ac.uk/moc
House on the Hill Toy Museum (Stansted): www.stanstedtoymuseum.com
Pollocks Toy Museum: www.pollocksmuseum.co.uk
The Highland Museum of Childhood, Scotland: www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk
The World Toy Museum, Japan: www.worldtoy.jp
The National Virtual Museum (24-Hour Museum): www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
List of UKToy Museums: www.toy.co.uk

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Societies, Clubs and Organisations

Train Collectors Society: www.traincollectors.org.uk
The Tri-ang Society: www.tri-angsociety.co.uk
Hornby Railway Collectors Association: www.hrca.net
Current Hornby & Hornby Collectors Club: www.hornby.com
Trix Twin Railway Collectors Association: www.ttrca.co.uk
The Bluebell Railway's impressive link page: www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Dewarenne - a Brighton-based multi period reenactment group www.dewarenne.com

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Toy-related links

This site belongs to one of our volunteers and features tintoys: www.tintoy.co.uk
This site is dedicated to large Tri-ang road vehicles: www.triang.nl
Dr. Who Exhibitions and Museums: www.doctorwhoexhibition.com
Muffin the Mule - 2 websites dedicated to his history and origins within the Hogarth Puppet Theatre: www.latinor.i12.com/muffin-the-mule.html and also: www.latinor.i12.com/muffin.html#muffin

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Automata/ mechanical toy links

Introduction to Automata: http://automata.co.uk
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Automata: www.cabaret.co.uk
Links to kinetic art sites: www.kugelbahn.ch/3_link.htm
Automata/mechanical toy history: www.automates-anciens.com
Tim Hunkin's arcade, Southwold Pier: www.underthepier.com
Tim Hunkin's amazing website: www.timhunkin.com
More automata (a makers' site): www.automatomania.com

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Tourist Information/Guides

Brighton and Hove Tourist Information: www.tourism.brighton.co.uk
My Brighton and Hove project - local tours, stories, history:
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk
Interactive map of Brighton attractions:
www.somewheretogo.co.uk/brighton_attractions.html
Virtual tour of Brighton and Hove (aerial map):
www.tourism.brighton.co.uk/Virtual/index.htm
Sussex Country, a guide: www.sussexcountry.com
Visit Britain site: www.visitbritain.com
Southern UK internet directory: www.southernuk.com

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Press articles/interviews

Peopletalk website, story and sound tour featuring the Brighton Toy Museum and Chris Littledale, Museum Director: www.peopletalk.org
Mybrighton.biz: A brief interview with Chris Littledale
BBC News, August 1991, photo of Chris Littledale by Roger Bamber: In Pictures: Five Thousand Days

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Make and Do

Download a free paper automata model kit: www.ceracera.com
How to make a diorama: www.ehow.com

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Interesting and eclectic sites

Roger Bamber, photographer www.rogerbamber.co.uk
Drew Olbrich - a collection of personal projects: www.traipse.com

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