It specialises in taking visitors back in time but a hugely popular heritage attraction has been celebrating its own history.
The Mayor of Blists Hill 'Albert William Purkiss', played by Keith Minshull, and 'Sergeant Harry Jarrett' played by Guy Rowland.
Some of the buildings existed on the site originally, and some have been moved there as part of efforts to preserve history that might have otherwise have been lost to the tide of modern development. The day featured a host of special events and celebrations, with Kay Whitehouse, events officer at the museum, revealing it had been months in the planning.
He said:"Youngsters are discovering all this stuff for the first time and it is quite remarkable, for the middle aged and the elderly it can remind them of their childhood. It works two ways, it educates and it is an exercise in nostalgia. He said:"It is lovely to see the town so busy. It is hard to believe it has been 50 years since it started and it has grown so much."
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