2018 updates and improvements

  • December
    • Major upgrade to the Minic Ships display. It now features almost all of the original range (we only have about seven more items to find to complete the collection).
  • November
    • Stationary Steam Engine, and electrical generator
  • October
    • Märklin gauge 1 “Crocodile” locomotive.
  • September
    • Addition of a significant architectural model factory building to the 1930s layout, in memory of Denis Hefford.
  • August
    • New “locomotives” display shelf under 00-gauge
    • We are now plastic-bag-free, thanks to new sponsor Tidmas Townsend Ltd. providing us with classy paper carrier bags!
  • July
    • New “trains” cabinet for smaller gauges and oddities
  • June
    • Meccano No.7 set in new display area
    • Banner poster above Trafalgar Street
    • Two display cabinets in Brighton Station
  • May
    • Animate Toys display
    • Framed “Tri-ang” products catalogue poster, circa ~1938
    • Upgraded internet connection, improving public wi-fi
  • April
    • Elastolin “Cowboys and Indians” display
  • March
    • Finally, a Museum Guide Book!
    • Two more toy theatres,
    • Community Rail Partnership agreement signed with Brighton Station
  • February
    • Three more miniature/toy sewing machines.
    • Part of museum floor resurfaced with grip paint
  • January – C19th German flat lead figures:
    • Battle of Morat
    • Viking raid on a Saxon village
    • Zoo