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VIVIEN MEATH visits the Ribchester Museum of Childhood, where a couple with a difference have created a tourist attraction that is equally distinctive
TAKE a Swedish blonde with a passion for child hood memorabilia, her businessman husband, a picturesque Lancashire village and a recipe for success is set to emerge.
obvious th a t the toys needed a home of their own, David and Ankie began searching for suitable premises.
grew and grew. It spread from bedroom to dining room, into the lounge and outside to the garage of their Whalley home. As it became increasingly
infectious and David too began acquiring various items of juvenilia. Like Topsy, the collection
provide Ankie with hours of enjoyment. It did. She had already built up a collection of miniature items of furni ture and throughout the fol lowing months spent hours restoring and furnishing it, and set out to find more. Her enthusiasm proved
minute purchase of an old doll’s house seemed like a good idea at the time. I t would, he thought,
lamily of collectors, but the passion which ultimately led to the museum’s opening stemmed from a Christmas present. Husband David’s last
when two adjoining shops in Church Street re-opened as home to hundreds of toys, from dolls houses to a work ing miniature fairground, model cars to train sets and tin soldiers — in fact every conceivable childhood toy appears to have found a new home in the half dozen rooms whicli make up the museum. Ankie Wild came from a
world have stepped inside the terraced cottage, and into the Museum of Child hood on Ribchester’s main street, during the past three years. I t was Easter, 1986,
Visitors from all over the
toric association was con sidered ideal.
Today, thousands of visi
fleas to take part in the cir cus — Professor Tomlin is reputed to have retired because fleas were in short supply!
Ribchester with i t ’s Roman Museum and his
of Blackpool Pleasure Beach can be re-lived in Ribches ter with a working Meccano exhibition featuring the famous big wheel and
is memorabilia relating to General Tom Thumb, the smallest man that ever lived, including miniscule riding boots and gloves worn by the famous Ameri can midget and his tiny wife, Lavinia. At present, the delights
Alongside the circus
fessor Tomlin’s Flea Cir cus”, with tiny bicycles, tra peze, roundabout, chariots, a high-wire act and a thumb-nail sized windmill — all used a decade ago to demonstrate the professor’s trained fleas. There are no longer any
room to themselves, there are displays of Victorian, German and French dolls, an antique miniature gen eral store, a theatre room with the Edwardian “Mr Churcher’s Model Fair ground” complete with steam boats, merry-go- rounds and a belter skelter with an authentic musical background. In another room is “Pro
the first floor with a series of rooms interlinked hous ing th e m u l t i tu d e of displays. The dolls’ houses have a
their childhood treasure trove. The museum is located on
all ages, but increasingly the Wikis’ find that it is the older generation who are particularly enthralled by
on, the collection is already threatening to outgrow the Ribchester premises. The exhibits are aimed at
tors have made the pilgrim age to the Ribble Valley venture. In fact, almost four years
changed and items from pri vate collections displayed. The museum scooped the
tower. Exhibits are occasionally
with “Do not touch” signs, although there are a num ber of items, including dolls houses, which visitors arc i nvi t e d to open and examine.
warning — for parents with young extremely active children, a visit to the mtiseum can p r e s e n t problems. The displays are littered
nostalgia, your thoughts turn to a picnic, then the museum’s pink and green rooms offer a more satisfac tory solution than the woods.
noon teas are served in the English Tea Rooms adja cent to the museum. The museum is open
daily, except Mondays, from 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. [ j
Ji I Light lunches and after
include tin and porcelain bears and will run for a month or, in the words of Mr Wild: “Until some depart on holiday and others go back to school!” And if after wallowing in
a private collection and some have never previously been on public display. The exhibition will also
dies will be converging on the museum in a special exhibition. Many will be coming from
will be no reason to venture into the woods for a teddy bear’s picnic, a trip to Rib chester is certain to suffice. For 500-plus ancient ted
From January 16th there j r
North West's best small tourist attraction prize for 1988 and was chosen as one of only two locations outside London for the exhibition of the Britannia House, the dolls’ house made by top professional designers which was auctioned at Sotheby’s for a six figure sum and attracted long queues when it came to the Ribble Valley. A cautionary word of
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