More than thirty rooms and sheds. Only one of them has tractors in it.
Grouped here into six collections, in the order you walk them. The story builds from the dress cases at the front all the way out to the machinery sheds at the back.
Clothing & Dresses
The room most people don't expect, and the one they talk about afterwards. Wedding gowns, ball dresses and period clothing, much of it donated locally, lit and laid out so each piece can be read up close. Beautiful gowns, and their stories with them.
The Street of Shops
A whole recreated streetscape under the roof: grocery, butcher, Post Office, saddlery, book shop, paint shop, hardware and the medical centre. Not empty shopfronts either, but stocked the way they were, down to the tins on the shelves.
The Homes
Grandmother Woods' house and Mother Woods' farmhouse, recreated and fully furnished to the 1920s and the 1940s. Fireplaces, dressers, wallpaper, the good china set out on the table. People go quiet in here, then start pointing at things their grandmother had.
Household & Everyday
The extensive collections of household and farming ephemera: sewing machines by the wall-full, appliances, harness and saddlery, tools, and enamel advertising signs from a century of ordinary life. The everyday made remarkable by sheer number.
Collectables & Curios
Tins, bottles, books, figurines and toys by the thousand, including a wall of toy trucks and fire engines that stops every child and quite a few adults. The small things families kept and quietly handed down.
Machinery & Tractors
And yes, out the back, the sheds. Ninety-two tractors, stationary engines and veteran vehicles for the ones who came for exactly this. Saved for last, and worth the walk.
