Amberley Museum

Today is Global James Bond Day!
Here is 'Roger Moore' looking very dashing on a Zorin locomotive at the entrance to Main Strike Mine. Which is here at Amberley.
Amberley Museum was used as the location of Main Strike Mine for the 1985 film 'A View to a Kill'.
#jamesbond #bond #aviewtoakill

Amberley is such a lovely place to be but it can change after dark.
If you want to experience the chills and frights of the Museum at night, try our Halloween Evening on Saturday 1st November... if you dare!
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk

Although the transistor was invented in 1947, it wasn't patented until this day in 1950 by three American physicists - Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain.
This led to the three scientists being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956.
Radio Caroline would never have existed without them...

This may also describe various Universities.
Campuses (campi?) full of capers? Do you still have Rag Week?

😜

Surely that would be 100 Playmobil miles and therefore about 20 feet?

If a seahorse is a hippocampus, does that make this a capercampus?

Caspar David! One of our favourites!

Literally.

What's stopping you?

Chicken Hypnos and Chicken Thanatos sound a bit as though they should be served with either rice or flatbread. 😜

Asleep, my love?
What, dead, my dove?

Today is the 100th anniversary of John Logie Baird first testing a working TV system - the first time moving images had been sent and received.
This is a Baird television set from 1930. It transmits a 30-line picture which was refreshed 12.5 times per second.
#television #BAIRD #transmission

Fossils are getting better and better 😜

Dare you visit Amberley after dark for our Halloween event on Saturday 1st November?
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk

There is a...magnificence...to this

Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need... The spirit of inquiry that led to Britain’s first public library opening its doors 173 years ago needs to be rekindled

'Our public libraries are free in three critical senses. Firstly, they cost nothing to join and to use. Secondly, they are open to all in our communities. We must also add a third concept of freedom: the freedom to read – to engage, without restraint, a diversity of knowledge and opinion'.

Then you'll need to come back and have a go!

That is a good one!
Another one to look for is making the Spiderman phone ring, so that he goes through his moves!

OTD in 1880, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric light bulb. He had been beaten to it by Joseph Swan who demonstrated his in 1878.
They merged their companies in 1883, to start manufacturing lamps as seen in the second picture. You need to imagine this upright and attached to the wall!

We're an industrial museum which preserves an amazing array of ways to transport sewage.
Sewage systems are sexy.

We love a Roman window.
Though these are quite good as well!

It's the name of an episode in Series 3 of the X-Files.
Not that we're nerds or anything.

We've been yarn-bombed!
This gorgeous piece magically appeared last Sunday, with the tag 'Nanny Bear's Crochet'.
Aren't we lucky!

Thank you!

Is it just us being ignorant or does that seem rather strange? We always thought that settlements tended to ensure a water supply.
Sorry for all the questions!

As a Museum whose history is rather later and very different, where was their water source, please? Did they have wells?

This is a Crampton locomotive.
It was patented OTD in 1843 by Thomas Russell Crampton.
It's safer than earlier versions, as it has larger rear wheels and a lower boiler, which reduced its centre of gravity so that it could travel faster.

It's very shiny!

He's gorgeous but we did wonder if he's supposed to be a hedgehog?