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The Charles Burrell Museum is based in Thetford, Norfolk, UK. The Museum is housed in the, grade 2 listed, former paint shop of Charles Burrell & Sons, builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery, steam lorries and steam tram engines. By 1875 Burrells were the largest manufacturers of traction engines in the world. We help tell the long story of Read more…

Ancient House is a museum of Thetford Life housed in a Tudor timber-framed building dated about 1490. We have been a museum since 1924. This magnificent timber framed Tudor merchant’s house was built about 1490, with an extension added about 1590. The house is jettied and timber-framed, using oak, with wattle and daub in-fill with a fine carved ceiling and Read more…