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What’s Involved

Let the museum come to you and get hands on with history at your own pace. Use this curated box of handling objects to spark conversations and reflect on changes over time. This loan box contains original objects relating to many different modes of transport and how they have changed over time. There are suggested activities and prompts for conversations.

What's in the box

  • Trains 320 piece jigsaw puzzle
  • Peak Forest Canal Brass Seal Early 19th Century
  • Peak Forest Canal Horse Brass
  • Manchester Tram – Cardboard model
  • Bicycle bell
  • Pitman’s book; ‘The second Book of the Lambretta’ Published in 1967
  • Driving gloves
  • Corgi Classics 97263 Single Deck Tram Ashton Under Lyne
  • Manchester Corporation plastic tokens Early 20th Century
  • Train driver’s hat
  • Advert for Oldham car batteries Denton here there everywhere 1949
  • The Motorcycle Magazine October 19th, 1939 No 1906 Vol 63
  • 1954 Highway Code
  • Tax Discs
  • British Railways Passenger Train Facilities and Map A5 booklet
  • 8 paper bus tickets printed by Williamson’s
  • London and North Western Railway Summer Holidays advertisement for Ashton Wakes trips to Lancaster and Morecambe
  • London and North Western Railway Summer Holidays advertisement for holidays to the South Coast
  • Motor Fuel Ration Book Early 1940’s
  • Studio photograph of people in car
  • Pocket watch
  • Mystery object

Please note: All ‘Museum In A Box’ loan boxes need to be collected from and returned to Portland Basin Museum. As these loan boxes are part of our handling collection, from time to time we may need to remove or replace some objects.

The box dimensions are approximately 520mm x 440mm x 310mm

Cost: £41 per week (or £7 per day for community groups)