Fire Engine Rally

Fun with Fire Engines The annual fire engine rally returns! It’s a fun packed day for all the family where red paint, lights and sirens abound! See the Museum filled with fire engines from the turn of the last century through to the present day. Demonstrations...

Woodyard

The Woodyard at the museum is a typical 1950s style working sawmill with various items of equipment powered by belt using petrol or steam engines. When trees in the museum grounds need to be felled they are often moved subsequently to the yard using our mobile crane...

Farnham Beekeepers

The Farnham Beekeepers’ Association (FBKA) is based at the Rural Life Living Museum, with their hives located near the entrance to the museum.  The association runs courses on beekeeping and offers practical help and advice to members.  They visit local schools and...

Tilford Garden Show

The Garden show provides gardeners with that all important retail therapy, things to inspire, things to learn, discover and people to meet. There’s a wonderful line up of trade stands, blacksmiths with bespoke garden sculpture, willow weavers and natural...

Village At War

May, 1944. Allied troops gathered in the towns and villages of the South of England in preparation for the largest amphibious landing of troops the world has ever seen. Villagers braced themselves, as in the distance can be heard the rumbling of heavy trucks,...
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