A museum showing life in the Vale of the White Horse during the 1920s and 30s has re-opened after a three-week break.

One of the museum's model makers, Malcolm Smith

Pendon Museum in Long Wittenham, near Abingdon, also unveiled a collection of photographs taken early last century, which will be on display until September.

The museum is home to the fictional Madder Valley model railway, and an unfinished model of a section of the Vale of the White Horse.

Museum director John Meaford said volunteers started building the 70-ft Vale of the White Horse exhibit in 1930. It is expected to take another 15 years to complete.

The museum was founded in 1954 by the late Roye England, an Australian who fell in love with the area.

Mr Meaford said: "We're widening the sphere of interest from being a model railway museum to one of being a museum of the 1920s and 30s."