BRITAIN’S FIRST VACUUM CLEANER MUSEUM OPENS

Panorama.am
16:34 22/02/2010

Society

Wherever he goes, James Brown, a 30-year-old ex-caretaker, known to
his fellow enthusiasts as ‘Mr Vacuum Cleaner, gets the red carpet
treatment. The hum of a Hoover, the drone of a Dyson are music to his
ears, and earlier this month – frustrated by the nation’s failure to
recognise the importance of vacuum cleaners in society – he opened
the first museum dedicated entirely to them, The Telegraph says.

Visitors have been turning up to the exhibition on a shopping drag
through the former coal mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire,
in numbers he can’t quite explain.

The prize items of his current collection are two gold-plated
American-made Kirby ‘Ultimate G’ vacuum cleaners (not displayed on the
premises for security reasons) that he reckons would fetch £2,500 each.

James sees the real value of his 126-piece collection as its ability
to tell the remarkable story of a gadget that too many of us take
for granted.