[1] Vestry House was originally built as a workhouse and was later used as a police station and also as private housing (amongst the exhibits is a replica police cell demonstrating one of the building's previous uses).

[1][2] On permanent display in the museum is the Bremer Car, the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine, which was built by Frederick Bremer (1872–1941) in a workshop at the back of his family home in Connaught Road, Walthamstow.

The car first ran in 1892 and was donated to the museum by Bremer in 1933.

[3] In 2023, the museum began a revitalisation led by architects Studio Weave [4] [5]

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