Southward we Visit Wheels of Time sites in Sandwich and Deal:
Sandwich Guildhall Museum & Archives tells the story of Sandwich from the Mesolithic period to the current day with eye catching displays and unique artefacts. Boasting its own Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest, children’s activities, historic Tudor Court Room and temporary exhibitions.
Deal Museum is packed to the rafters with objects from Deal’s history as an important seaside town – full-sized boats & model boats; tales of smuggling, fishing, the four local lifeboat stations and the wrecks on the Goodwin Sands; beach combings and cannons; local shop & pub signs; famous local people; the Royal Marines’ band service and its impact on the town and much more.
Kent Museum of the Moving Image: Is now open and explores the deep history of the moving image — from the days of candle-lit magic lantern performances and hand-painted slides, through Victorian visual experimentation, to the advent and the heyday of the cinema.
Deal Timeball Tower Learn about signalling and time keeping, life in the Royal Navy and smuggling from the four floors of exhibits housed in this iconic Grade II listed tower. The timeball was linked to the Royal Observatory by electric telegraph wires. At 1pm a signal was sent to all timeball towers to synchronise the drop of the ball. Ships anchored off Deal could then synchronise their chronometers, essential for navigation.To day, the Timeball Is programmed to drop every day at 1pm and during the summer season hourly from 9am to 5pm.
