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Always had a soft spot for Cliffe Castle in Keighley, too. Obviously no budget, but they always tried hard - some top taxidermy, exhibitions and indoor beehive too. And free, so good for kids. Might be shut now, I know it was for a while.
It's open again, quite an ecletic collection but plenty to interest for a couple of hours. The bird cages and greenhouses (attached to a cafe) used to be good fun too but we didn't have time for them when I went back last.
Epicyclo - the still in question was found, buried in a peat bog. Full of Hooch...
BBSB - your Finnish boat has reminded me of another job I worked on. Woodside Ferry Terminal in Birkenhead features a German WW2 sub cut into sections. Fascinating and horrifying.
You could have sunk it if you used the loo incorrectly... An American bomber saved them the trouble.
northwind - I just had a look on Google Earth and a BIT shabby doesn't come close
Couldn't link but it's here - what a shame
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dundee,+Dundee+City/ @56.4605377,-2.9612679,3a,75y,318.61h,87.11t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s3run-INledFDpXaLdX7Z5A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D3run-INledFDpXaLdX7Z5A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D100%26h%3D80%26yaw%3D354.72672%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x48864144ab639cd3:0x94e43b1e384be52a!6m1!1e1
Poor old bucket 🙁 They were seeking funds to restore it, last of its kind and all that but apparently none of the historic bunch are into it because it's not actually a ship.
If it's barometers made of leeches or severed human hands with magical powers to keep residents asleep allowing them to ne burgled, don't miss Whitby Museum. We popped in today for the fossils(excellent and some worlds's best specimens) but I'd forgotten how excellently bonkers some of their other stuff is.
For lighthouses, the Skerryvore museum on Tiree is interesting. The actual lighthouse is on a rock 10 miles out to sea, but you can look around the shore station. Rather impressive how they managed to build the lighthouse on a remote rock.
Sutton Hoo is great, but the one I was expecting to be rubbish that is hard to beat would be the Pencil Museum in Keswick. Just brilliant!
Just resurrecting this to plug
http://www.devilsporridge.org.uk
Stopped off today and it's a fascinating place about an amazing piece of WW1 history that I never knew existed, plus some harrowing stuff about Britain's worst train crash which was nearby. Run by a great team of local enthusiasts.
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Horniman. Does that count as a little museum?
It just looks small once you're inside because the walrus is so big 🙂
Lark lane motor museum used to be good but its gone now. And the large object store of the Liverpool museum had some great stuff.
Williamson art gallery and museumn at Birkenhead, great scale models of fantastic big ships,
Transport museum down the Pacific road area of the docks, birkenhead,
Grasshopper steam engine woodside, birkenhead, now closed due to lack of cash,
Town hall museum birkenhead, closed due to lack of cash,
u635,full size german submarine cut into 4 parts with a diamond wire saw, and museum woodside, Birkenhead,
you want to go to Rhydymyn near mold, north wales the most secret plant during the second world war, for storing of highly dangerous chemical nerve gases for killing people, now a charity and open to the public on certain days, secret tunnels lots of history and more.
Haven't read the thread, so don't know if anyone has mentioned. But at Drumlanrig there's wee history of the bike museum, which is class, well worth half an hour. It's just a room basically, but brilliant.
Gilbert White's house in Selborne, not massively interesting until you get to the Oats Museum, it really hits home just how double hard the gents in the Scott expedition were, and how much of a legend Capt Oats was. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Capt Oats or historic Arctic expedition.
For a small village on the outskirts of Huddersfield, we have not one, but TWO museums!
The first one is a group of converted weavers cottages and is dedicated to the area's woollen industry: [url= http://www.colnevalleymuseum.org.uk/ ]Colne Valley Museum[/url]
The other is a private place that an enthusiastic local has put together to display his collection of militaria. There doesn't appear to be a website, but here's a link to an article in the local paper: [url= http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/museum-brings-back-military-life-5085780 ]LINK[/url]
Pitt Rivers in Oxford, the most concentrated display in any gallery in the world.
Oh, there's Todmorden Toy and Model Museum! Tiny, ramshackle, used for a Derren Brown thing once, full of disturbing old toys:
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Huntsville prison museum in Texas bit depressing but they have got an original electric chair!
Anyone mention Brugge Chip Museum yet?
[url= http://www.hopewellcolliery.com/ ]Hopewell Colliery Museum[/url] in the Forest of Dean is great, close to the trails so two birds with one stone.
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