Carlton Colville ward councillor Letitia Smith is delighted to support the East Anglia Transport Museum (EATM) by providing them with £2k from her Enabling Communities Budget to support the rewiring and repainting of the vehicles at the museum.

EATM have the widest range of preserved vehicles of any museum, and further exhibits are accepted from time to time.

Their story began back in 1962 when four local tramway enthusiasts rescued the body of an old Lowestoft tramcar, no. 14, from its use as a summerhouse at Gunton.

From this grew the idea of forming a transport museum, and as a result the East Anglia Transport Museum was founded on its present site in 1965.

The huge task lay ahead of transforming a disused meadow, into a museum with depots, stores, workshops, administrative offices, refreshment facilities and toilets, not forgetting roads, tram tracks, overhead wiring for trams and trolleybuses, and a light railway.

They have a wide range of historic vehicles on show which includes trams, trolleybuses, motor buses, steam rollers, cars, lorries and taxi. There is also a 2ft-gauge railway.

Visitors can ride on many of the vehicles and view the period street furniture and many small exhibits gathered in a developing street scene.

Cllr Smith was delighted to join the museum on their opening Christmas weekend to present the cheque and see the switching on of their Christmas lights.

The East Anglia Transport Museum will be open every weekend (3pm -7pm) before Christmas, a fantastic opportunity to enjoy this unique experience.