Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre - Exhibits and Collections

Exhibits and Collections

• BT Connected Earth telecommunications exhibition
• EDF Energy Electricity Hall
• Vintage Wireless and Communications exhibition and Amateur radio station
• Amberley Museum Railway: a narrow gauge railway (2 ft (610 mm)) and railway exhibition hall, devoted to British industrial narrow gauge railways. There are 45 locomotives, with 8 being steam powered, 29 internal combustion and 4 battery electric, and around 80 items of rolling stock, chiefly goods wagons, based largely on the collection of the former Brockham Museum (relocated here in 1982). There is special interest in railway material from the Dorking Greystone Lime Company and also from the Groudle Glen Railway in the Isle of Man Of the 8 steam locos only one is currently operational but a further three are undergoing overhauls of one form or another.
• Southdown Bus garage, a reconstructed 1920s depot housing working buses chiefly from the local operator Southdown Motor Services based on the collection of the Southdown Omnibus Trust
• Wheelwright's Shop, from Horsham
• Machine Shop
• Ironmonger's shop
• Timber yard and Steam crane
• Village Garage, a reconstructed 1930s automobile repair shop
• Paviors Hall of Road Making, located in a 19th-century iron-framed industrial building relocated from Horsham
• Cycle Exhibition
• Rural telephone exchange, incorporating 1940s equipment from Coolham
• Arundel Gin Building, housing a metal foundry
• Brickyard drying shed, late 19th century, from Petersfield, Hampshire
• Concrete Exhibition
• Fairmile Café, a 1930s roadside building partly housing the Ted Page collection of domestic and agricultural artefacts
• Dover Cottage Pump House, from Arundel, and water pumping display
• Stationary engine shed, and Municipal engine house from Littlehampton
• Fire station, reconstruction of a 1950s building completed in 2008
• Toll bridge hut, from Littlehampton swing bridge
• Printing Shop
• Brewery and Laundry (the latter with Victorian equipment from Warnham)
• Cobbler's shop, with equipment from Bognor Regis
• Hall of Tools, with associated demonstrations by the Tools and Trades History Society

Crafts demonstrated on site include woodturning, broom-making, walking stick-making, caning (furniture) and the work of the blacksmith and the stained glass maker. Special events are held regularly.