A NEW exhibition featuring 'marvellous machines' through the ages will open at an Oxfordshire museum.

Banbury Museum's latest exhibition features curious and quirky gadgets and contraptions from the days before electronics.

The original gadgets, eccentric inventions and oddities created by Victorian and early 20th century inventors, are drawn from the collections of Maurice Collins, one of Britain’s most prolific and eccentric collectors.

They include a nose shaper, clockwork burglar alarms, an entirely mechanical teas-made from 1902 and a wrist-mounted 1920s predecessor of a Satnav.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 24.