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Amberley Museum secures £433,766 grant to undertake major project

Mar 21, 2023 | News

Amberley Museum has recently been successful in an application to the Museum Estates and Development Fund (MEND) to restore and upgrade the historically important Bagging Shed area. Amberley Museum is particularly pleased to have been awarded £433,766 from MEND...

Amberley Museum Secures Acquisition of Unique Former Southdown Bus

Feb 22, 2023 | News

A former Southdown Motor Services bus has been acquired by The Southdown Omnibus Trust Collection and will soon be joining their fleet within the collection at Amberley Museum in West Sussex. Leyland Titan TD1 (number plate UF 4813) was new to the Southdown Motor...

Help support the overhaul of 1905 steam engine ‘Polar Bear’

Nov 3, 2022 | News

We are fundraising for the 10-year overhaul of our narrow-gauge 1905 steam engine Polar Bear. Polar Bear was built for the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man by W.G. Bagnall of Stafford in 1905, works No. 1781. Polar Bear, the larger of two locomotives, remained...