We also invite you to open cupboard doors to peer into the past, see if you can find the table tennis set that was played with on the dining room table or 1950s clothing hanging in the bedroom wardrobes. The cottage is reminiscent of the 1950s, when Donald and Anne made Stoneywell their fulltime family home. Therefore we have a number of objects that have been bought in to tell family life at this time, from a gramophone playing '50s records in the Sitting Room to a Hornby trainset that you can set running around its track in the Well Room.
Our collection includes objects on loan from Gimson family members and New Walk Museum (part of the Leicester County Council Museum service), with others donated to us, including traditional dolls and popular children's books and games. Amongst them, the Nathaniel Kirk long case clock in the Dining Room has been loaned from Leicestershire Arts and Museums Service to represent one that would have stood in the same spot and a small Oriental rush cabinet, on loan to the Trust from Donald's niece, now stands proudly on top of a Sidney Barnsley secretaire-chest.