[4] Amongst the artefacts are: reports of the Zeppelin that was downed in the area during World War I; the remains of a two-headed lamb born in the area;[5] and the door of the house once owned by Christopher Martin, who was a passenger aboard the Mayflower.

[6] In 2002, a Victorian kitchen garden was opened at the rear of the museum[7] where a number of Elizabethan herbs were planted.

[8] In 2008, the museum received £41,000 of National Lottery funding[9] to carry out renovation of the rear of the building to restore it to its original 18th-century character.

While this renovation was being carried out, a number of artefacts were discovered in the garden, some dating from around the 1860s.

Items included Victorian pipes, ginger beer jars and medicine bottles; many of these were added to the museum's collection.