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This two-room museum is housed
in a shop in a south London suburb, and the collection has
nearly 600 domestic and industrial sewing machines accumulated
by Thomas Albert Rushton, 1900 - 74.
A replica of his first sewing
machine shop and workshop can be seen in the museum.
Amongst the domestic items on
display is the original Singer No I, developed in 1855, the
first sewing machine by Issac Merrit Singer, 1811 - 75.
The centrepiece is a German machine
made Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria,
as a wedding gift.
The industrial machines show
the time when a flourishing textile trade was in the north
of Britain. Although most of the mills and factories
have gone, some of the machines have been saved by the museum.
Admission free
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