Wroxham Miniature Worlds April 2019
On holiday in Norfolk recently, I visited the Miniature Worlds exhibition in Wroxham. It is housed in a building that used to be a warehouse and comprises a number of model railway layouts; British and Thomas in 00 gauge, European & Dutch in H0 gauge and Japanese in N gauge. Some of the layouts are interactive and the rest are computer controlled. The exhibition also has Lego scenes, a slot car racing circuit, train and flight simulators and static displays of aircraft, boats and motor vehicles. Well worth a visit.
For more information, visit wroxhamminiatureworlds.co.uk
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Wroxham Miniature Worlds - Toy Museum
My trip (another one) to Wroxham Miniature Worlds. This is a Toy Museum with various models and private collections. There are Corgi and Dinky toys displayed, a selection of model boats, and then various toys and games through the years. Here I wander around filming with the ambient sound recording to give you a feel of the day.
There are several railway layouts here. The Great British layout is in 00 gauge and feature steam and modern image. Europa layout features three European countries in HO scale, and has snow and a Fun Fair scene. Kato in a Japanese N gauge layout featuring Bullet Trains. There is even an area of G scale Garden layout with some rather large trains. Elsewhere is a huge 00 gauge layout under construction. This claims to eventually be the largest 00 in the world (remember Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg is HO scale).
Other areas include Doll House items and a Doll collection. There is a Scalextric Desert Racers section with automated slot cars racing around and an impressive collection of cars. There are also some 1/43rd scale model cars in a big display case, and some R/C Tamiya kits.
Lego of course features as one of the most popular toys ever. There are various film-themed items and a Lego City.
Well worth a visit. Takes a couple of hours to go around and it is right next to Bure Valley Railway (Wroxham end), and Norfolk Broads Boat tours, so you’ll need a very full day, and a bit of cash. Check their website for details and current prices.
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A visitor's guide to Wroxham, Norfolk Broads
Wroxham is a small village in the heart of the Norfolk Broads and it is popular with tourists in the area taking a vacation on a boat. Before you visit Wroxham you need to be aware of what you're letting yourself in for, and this is the purpose of this footage.
Being a local (of my entire life - some 37 years) I thought I would create a bit of footage aimed specifically for potential visitors to Wroxham so you will know what to expect.
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Places to see in ( Wroxham - UK )
Places to see in ( Wroxham - UK )
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres. The village is situated within the Norfolk Broads on the south side of a loop in the middle reaches of the River Bure. It lies in an elevated position above the Bure, between Belaugh Broad to the west and Wroxham Broad to the east or south east. Wroxham is some eight miles north-east of Norwich, to which it is linked by the A1151 road.
The village and broad lie in an area of fairly intensive agriculture, with areas of wet woodland adjoining the broad and river. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland although the river, broad and their immediate environs fall within the executive area of the Broads Authority. On the northern side of the Bure is the village of Hoveton, often confused with Wroxham.
Wroxham Bridge was rebuilt in brick and stone in 1619 replacing a bridge built in 1576, which itself replaced an earlier, probably wooden, structure. It is considered to be the second most difficult on the Broads to navigate (after Potter Heigham) and a pilot station sits on the Hoveton side of the river to assist boaters for a fee: £6 per boat.
Wroxham Broad lies about one mile downstream from Wroxham Bridge. The broad has an area of 34.4 hectares and a mean depth of 1.3 metres. It lies to the west of the Bure, with two navigable openings between river and broad. The broad is popular for sailing and is the home of the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club. It is also an important habitat for broadland flora and fauna. Between 2000 and 2005 the island between the two channels linking Wroxham Broad to the Bure underwent restoration to stop erosion and improve the island's ecology, which had become degraded. The project was a joint initiative involving the Broads Authority, Norfolk Broads Yacht Club and the local landowner, Trafford Estates. Scrub was cleared and a stretch of piling installed, allowing sedge, reed and rush to grow back. By 2005 it was reported that more birds, including kingfishers, were nesting on the island and the rare Cetti's warbler was often spotted. Greater numbers of ducks including pochard and tufted ducks now wintered nearby and there was a greater profusion of wild flowers and marsh flora including orchids. During the course of the work, in 2004, volunteers came across an unexploded Second World War hand grenade in the dredgings, which had to be exploded by an army bomb disposal team.
Wroxham is often called the Capital of the Broads, an accolade that may with some merit be challenged by Hoveton, where the majority of local businesses and boatyards are situated, the first centre on the Broads for boating holidays and excursions from the late nineteenth century when expansion of the rail network had made access to the area easier. The East Norfolk Railway arrived in Wroxham and Hoveton between 1874 and 1876 and John Loynes started the first boat hire firm on the Broads at Wroxham where he moved the business he had started in Norwich in 1878.
Both Wroxham and Hoveton have several boat building and pleasure craft hire yards. Other local industries include the canning of soft fruits. Wroxham village had at one time – for much of the 20th century – its own public house (The Castle, in Norwich Road), four village shops (one in Castle Street and three in Norwich Road) and a primary school (in Church Lane), all now closed. A public library was built near Bridge Broad, a small broad near Wroxham Bridge, in the 1960s.
Barton House Railway is a miniature steam-driven railway (now two railways) large enough for passengers, with full size signal box and signals and a museum of railway artefacts, open to the public since 1963 in a large riverside garden in Hartwell Road. It is based on the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, which operated some of the train services in East Anglia before British railway nationalisation in 1947. The original railway runs on a 3.5 gauge track with a miniature steam locomotive. In 1979, work started on the 7.25 gauge 'Riverside' railway which ran initially with an electric engine and later with a steam locomotive. Barton House Railway is run by volunteers and makes donations from proceeds to local charities.
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