The ‘Friends of the East Kent’ (Road Car Company Limited) are celebrating the 105th anniversary of the East Kent Road Car Company commencing operations in Deal on 1st September 1916 by operating a number of free bus services in the Deal, Dover, Sandwich,...
On Thursday 29th July, on behalf of the museum, Keith Stewkesbury made the first handover of tools to TWAM – Tools with a Mission , the items have all been donated by DTM, our members and friends. TWAM will refurbish them, sort them into trade kits and send them...
An even better museum for 2021 We have missed our visitors and friends but we have been very busy putting our reserves and generous grant funding to good use. We will reopen in 2021, a better and even more interesting museum. We have improved our building: Major...
The Museum Society’s Members want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to #National Lottery players, Dover District Council, Dover Town Council, the Kent Community Fund and many private donors who made it possible for us to pay our bills and finish essential maintenance so...
In late 2019 the Sandwich Fire Fighters came to the museum to see the 1869 horse-drawn Sandwich fire appliance which the museum cares for on behalf of Sandwich Town Council. The modern firefighters posed for photographs in the same positions adopted by the firemen of...
The museum has been lucky enough to acquire the sea anchors from the Dover Hovercraft, Princess Margaret. The anchors were originally painted white but are now cleaned and preserved in black paint, and displayed on the approach to the museum entrance alongside our...
