Museum of Classic Sci-Fi

The museum opened in 2018 and houses a collection of more than 200 props, costumes and artworks from a number of "classic", mid to late-20th century science fiction franchises.

[4] Cole dreamt of establishing a science fiction museum as a child, being inspired by seeing a Tardis prop from Doctor Who on the Blackpool seafront at the age of five.

Cole watched a lot of science fiction as a child, particularly Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker as Doctor Who; he also read Marvel Comics.

[1] He has since acquired other props, including the head of a robot mummy from the 1975 Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars, which was donated by the family of a milkman who had been given it by the BBC in the late 1970s, instead of throwing it away.

[2] The Northumberland County Council planning opinion was opposed by dozens of people from the village and across the world, with local residents erecting their own Daleks in protest.

[6] The event was filmed by Reeltime Pictures for a documentary about the museum, which had earlier featured in another of their productions Lockdown, documenting the lives of Doctor Who fans during the pandemic.