Bakelite Museum
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| Location | Williton, Somerset |
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| Website | Bakelite Museum |
The Bakelite Museum is in Williton, Somerset, England.
The Museum is housed in Orchard Mill, which has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.[1] It used to be a watermill and still has the original workings in place, including the water wheel.[2]
It is home to the personal collection of Patrick Cook, and includes vintage plastics such as radios, cameras, telephones, Bayko play bricks and a Bakelite coffin, plus a Bakelite car and vintage caravans. The Bakelite era has been captured by non-plastic objects from the early 20th century - fridges, cookers, washing-machines, toasters and comptometers .[3][4] An additional feature is the contents of one of the first, pioneering Bakelite factories in Britain, with presses, moulding machines and over 120 steel moulds.
In September 2010 a fire safety inspection found various problems which needed to be rectified if the museum was to remain open to the public and satisfy the Regulatory Reform (Fire safety) Order 2005.[5][6] Improved access to the museum was created in 2012 by the addition of an elegant outside staircase by a local blacksmith.
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Interior
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Vacuum Cleaners with Bakelite Bodies
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Bakelite radio
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Picnic Basket
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Clock
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Disused water wheel
See also
- Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite (1907)
References
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