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Retro Wheels always brings out the unexpected! Wooden bicycle, anyone? Sinclair C5? Circus bike?

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We took an almost arty photo! We can never get enough of our own in-house roof tiles. These were made by the company that used to own the site when we were a Proper Business, called Pepper & Sons. The tiles are made of concrete and interlock apart from the ones in the middle which are made of glass.

Museums and galleries have a similar effect.

Tell me that you work at an industrial museum without telling me that you work at an industrial museum... Sound up!

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Some of you may remember Sir Clive Sinclair, who invented both the ZX81 computer and the C5 tricycle. Today would have been his 86th birthday, had he not died in 2021. We will have our C5 out and running about this weekend for our Retro Wheels days!

Look! Look! The ground is wet! It's been raining! 😱💦🎉🌧️ We're not overreacting, are we?

Another of our 'completely irrelevant but has to be seen' posts.

Apparently, it's International Red Shoes Day, which is all about invisible diseases and illnesses. We therefore have to ask if sandals count? Like many museums, we welcome visitors, staff and volunteers with a variety of conditions, all of whom are valued!

Today is National Rat Catchers' Day. Anyone who knows us will realise that we have a bit of an issue with this, as these rodents have been our constant companions (on purpose) for many years. Fortunately, it's actually about the Pied Piper of Hamelin which as ex-teachers, we think is marvellous. 😘

This links with previous posts we have shared about the threat to history and the arts in education. The popularity of reenactment and living history is helping but we need the research behind it in both the field and archives. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

Advocating for History by Doing History - On HistoryThis blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...blog.history.ac.uk

Nothing directly to do with Amberley Museum but something else that illustrates the growing disregard and disrespect of archaeology.

Thought you'd like to see this. It's a mould for making musket balls out of lead. Dates from about the 1850s!

We met this shrew asleep in the middle of the path and 'persuaded' her to move to the undergrowth at the side. She was not happy.

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The damage being done is unbelievable. Stating the obvious - or what should be obvious - but after a bit you run out of words and expletives.

This is Nicola Tesla. Today is his 180th birthday. He was a true genius who researched AC current and its uses, amongst other things, and made the modern world possible. Without him, we would be a bit short of exhibits.