anteros_lmc | Jun. 7th, 2012

Over the bank holiday weekend we went to visit Eyemouth, a little fishing port on the south east coast. It's a pretty spot to visit but the main reason we went is that there is a small maritime museum there that bought several props and sets at the Hornblower prop auction in 2007. Sadly there was no sign of the scale models of the Indefatigable which the museum allegedly bought but they did have a couple of interior sets on display. It's a fascinating museum built on the quayside and designed to look like a frigate from the outside, complete with stern gallery, gun ports, chains and prow. Inside it's stuffed to the gunwales with an enormous and seemingly random collection of nautical bits and pieces. In fact there's so much stuff there you can barely move without tripping over cannons, creels and goodness only knows what. The place is also somewhat over populated with a whole host of dusty and rather sinister looking wax models which only add to the weirdness of the place. Most of the museum is currently given over to an exhibition on smuggling, a trade which Eyemouth was infamous for in the 18th century. Sorry the pictures are so ropey, it's was really hard to get a decent shot due to the light from the huge windows lining one side of the museum.