Wimborne Model Town and Gardens

This 1/10 scale model town (with 1/100 scale model of the model) has miniature street scenes showing life in 1952, set in beautiful gardens. Take one of our quizzes to guide you around. Look inside the hotel to see the guests watching television. Look inside the shop windows to see what they had to sell seventy years ago. Look inside the Minster church where a wedding is going on. Listen to the phone ringing in the phone box, and the public toilets flushing. See the rivers flowing past Mill House and through the middle of the town.

Our delightful little bears started life in Harrods, where Mary Tildesley saw them, bought them, dressed them in tiny hand-made outfits and gave them dioramas to live in. Some are fishing, others are playing rugby, gardening or looking after the stables. Everyone is very busy! Mary wrote their stories down for you to read.

Children were busy playing in the 1950's and no home was complete without a model railway! Wimborne Model Town has a large layout with three different circuits, a variety of trains and rolling stock, including Thomas the Tank Engine. Like children today, they also liked to play outside, and Wendy Street has a slide and play houses for you to enjoy.