Dartmoor Stories

Someone asked me the other day, what came first, tricycles or bicycles? They were looking at the lovely Victorian child’s trike we have on display at the Museum and I...

Oral histories create a rich world of storytelling around our collections. Interviews are sometimes the only source that is available to remember a certain way of life, place, or person....

Many interesting items are donated to the Museum of Dartmoor Life and each has a story to tell. This small childs boot measuring just 19cm long was discovered up the...

Christmas Day 1962 saw temperatures plummet and the first snowfall, but it was on the evening of 29th December that the blizzard started. Okehampton station’s  Running Foreman, Arthur Westlake remembers:...

If you visit our lovely museum, on the ground floor you will find an amazing old car, a Bullnose Morris, that dates from 1923. Amazingly, in the 1920’s, 45% of...

Have you ever wondered how a museum is born? Well if you visit the Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton you can see. On the top floor, in a large...