Brixham Heritage Museum


An eclectic collection of exhibits explores the town's salty history, majoring in sailboats, smuggling, shipbuilding and sea rescues. There are reconstructions of a fisher's cottage and a police cell, but it's the sepia-tinted photos of the town's past that steal the imagination.


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