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The Steam Team are a community volunteer group, created to do dirty work on the industrial collections at Scolton Manor Museum.

28/10/2026

A dry and mild day had the park filled with visitors today. The fun treasure hunt trail kept many families entertained. I think the main feature was watching a bunch of mature gentlemen working in the signal box and on Margaret.
Mike and Robert rust treated the signal ladders from last week.
Melo moved some signs and cabinets around in the signal box so we could display the bouncing bomb fragment (picture 2). This was one of the smaller scale bombs they used locally as they designed and tested bombs for the famous Dambusters raid.
Richard and I continued with chipping rust off Margaret and filling holes and priming the buffers.

21/10/2026

The Steam Team was outside today, braving the cold wind to push on with our current projects.
Mike and Melo masked up and used the grinders to strip back the signal ladders. One ladder had to be straightened slightly so I helped as Richard heated it enough for us to correct it.
While Mike and Melo continued the hard and dirty work on the ladders, Richard and I moved on to doing more beauty treatment on Margaret. Some make-up was applied by way of painting. And filler-botox was applied to Margaret's front buffers and sandbox.
Fingers crossed the expected stormy weather doesn't wash it all away. 🤞

14/10/2026

We were back working in the station area and on Margaret today.
Mike and Melo got busy cleaning up a pair of very heavy ladders. The ladders are being paired up with their signal posts once more. We'll paint them and look at how to stop would-be signallers from climbing on them.
Richard and Robert worked on one of Margaret's sandboxes - removing rust and applying rust converter.
Later Robert helped me with taking the rust off the front buffers and applying more rust converter.
A couple from Rhondda way called in and were very complimentary. They spent a while discussing similar engineering experiences with Mike.

07/10/2026

A chill breeze today to remind us to hurry up and finish our outdoor projects before winter weather arrives.
Robert did a good job cleaning the signal box interior - a number of spiders were made temporarily homeless.
Mike and Melo gave Margaret a good hosing down in the morning and power washed the station platform and signal box woodwork in the afternoon.
Melo's magic touch helped to get a stranded visitor's car going. Let's hope she got home okay. 🤞

23/09/2026

A productive day for the team thanks to the fine weather.
The garden chairs received another coat of black paint and hopefully next week that project will finish.
Melo and Mike attached a wire mesh to the top of Margaret's cab to prevent young adventurers climbing up through it. Sorry to spoil their fun but a fall from up there could scratch the paintwork and possibly stain the decking. And would probably hurt.
Melo and Mike then moved an information board to a better position. Which reminded me to add the picture of a noticeboard about Margaret herself.
Richard and I sanded the repair work on one side of the cab and then repainted it. Robert gave the toolbox a 2nd coat of GWR Green.
The old girl is looking much better for bit of a makeover.
Plenty more needed though.

16/09/2026

Happy birthday to us. 🎂🥳🥳 Steam Team is 7 years old. We came together to try to preserve Margaret from a rusty death as best we can. And we're still trying.
There were more bodywork repairs today and a toolbox repaint.
The garden table set is nearing completion and bits are going up to the walled garden for display.
We had a celebratory lunch in which quite a few cakes made a brief appearance.

09/09/2026

The park was full of children and young families enjoying the sunshine today. We more mature men were busy painting. Melo applying red oxide to a chair. Mike and i painted the table top and a couple of chairs.
This project is nearing its end.
We did a tour of the station area and one of the display sheds, identifying future projects.
We also put the 4 cutter blades on display alongside the old fire brigade pump and the hearse.

02/09/2026

We start with a happy man this week - nothing Melo likes better than to have a power tool in his hands. (At Scolton anyway.) Here he is wire brushing the grime off one of the garden chairs we're still working on.

The damper weather drove us indoors for the next stages - painting with red oxide and then with the 1st of 2 coats of black.

Robert and Mike painting the tabletop. A very fiddly job and "time consuming" as Robert kept pointing out.

The last picture shows the furniture in its different stages - and how cramped the workshed is with everything packed in there when we leave.

More of the same next week.

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Scolton Manor
Haverfordwest
SA625QL

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

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