If you happen to be passing the Isle of Wight (as you do) and like piccies a gem of a place is Dimbola. As you look at the map, it's on the left in Freshwater, just below the Needles.
In a lovely creaky old house in a time warp Isle of Wight style which is lovely. Essentially a shrine to Julia Margaret Cameron of Victorian times (and a few throwbacks to various festivals) who really pioneered some of the photo styles we use today.
They have a 10 x 8 inch plate camera there which is about the same size as the main weapon on the Death Star and is absolutely amazing.  Brass, wood, and manual controls, hours in the darkroom so needs re-introducing.
More unnerving was I own a few cameras that they have in their displays, and more unnerving is that mine still work...

http://www.dimbola.co.uk/

I have long admired the photos of Julia Margaret Cameron but was disappointed on my only visit to the island some years ago to find the museum had only limited opening times and I did not visit it. Looking at the web site http://www.dimbola.co.uk/visitor-information/ this problem has now been overcome and uit is open seven days a week in the summer.

Even if you have never heard her name before you will probably have seen some of her classic photos such as that of John Herschel son of the discoverer of Uranus, taken in 1867.https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46573  He work is often technically flawed, with dust affecting the images for instance, but she was a pioneer of using photography as an artistic medium rather than just plain recordings of images.