Brighton Toy and Model Museum arches and contains a large 1930s 0 gauge model railway layout, 00 gauge model railway town and countryside layouts, and collections of model locomotives, soft toys, puppets and marionettes, construction toys, building construction sets, model ships, radio controlled model aircraft, and farm, circus, zoo and ship toy sets. It also includes displays of diecast models including Matchbox, Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys and Spot-On. Exhibition displays draw on outside guest collections and on varying selections taken from the Museum's core collection. The museum is a venue for the Brighton Science Festival and the Brighton Fringe. Public train running days are typically
Barbara Toy and Charles also wrote "The Man in Grey", a play adaptation of the novel of the same name by Lady Eleanor Smith, and "Random Harvest", based on the book of the same name by James Hilton. Toy took over the management of Worthing Repertory Company at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, a position she held until she resigned to go off on her first overland journey in late 1950. Toy also co-authored a film screenplay with Norman Lee, an adaptation of W. W. Jacobs' 1902 horror story "The Monkey's Paw", the film of which was released in 1948. Toy had