Museum of Miniature Found Objects

I've just got back from Lynmouth, a small village in Exmoor, on the north Devon coast. In August 1952 the village suffered a catastrophic flood (two rivers flow down off the moor to meet in the village), with buildings washed away and 34 people killed. One particularly grisly detail was the little boy's body found in the butcher's shop after the waters had subsided. This was a terrible event, and commemorated in a superb model in the village's memorial hall, showing how Lynmouth looked before the flood, built by a local man. I particularly like the way he's managed to depict the turbulent waters of the rapidly rising river. Elsewhere in the village there was a handsome model commemorating a dramatic episode in 1899, involving the village's lifeboat. And then there was the model railway housed in an old shop . . .