Days of Yore

Set into the vast quarries was a railway, and a bus service that used antique vehicles to carry the visitor around among the exhibits.

The exhibits are manned by volunteers who enthusiastically explain the history and workings of their exhibit. Several old buildings have been demolished, transpotred and rebuilt here within the confines of the museum. The Gorse Fox particularly liked this garage... but there were also exhibits of old machine shops, printing works (where GF got into long discussions regarding the use of various typesetting techniques much to the delight of the volunteer); a pottery, a cartwright, several pump rooms, a bus depot (complete with a fleet of vintage buses)... and so forth.

It was really quite interesting and in the hall dedicated to the new fangled "electricity" they had some simple whimshurst machines generating small sparks, a Jacob's ladder creating larger sparks and a Tesla coil discharging 500,000 volts in huge purple sparks.