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20th Sep 2017, 5:00 pm | #1 |
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Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Hi, not sure if this is the correct part of the forum to mention this place ?.
We were taken there by a some good friends a few weeks ago. There's a good display of 1950's-1960's televisions (in very good condition), radios, both valve and transistor and record players.Its quiet a collection and you can touch many of the exhibits. there are also other electromechanical items, both domestic and work based, to look at. It's an interesting visit. They have an honesty cafe where you serve yourself and put the money in a box. It's about 10 miles from Shrewsbury. Their web site is http://www.lolc.co.uk/ |
20th Sep 2017, 5:25 pm | #2 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
I may well pop up on Saturday. It's just up the A49 a bit (20 miles) from me. In fact I could just hop on the train- a good excuse to see a bit of the "Welsh Marches Line" (very posh, used to be just the Shrewsbury, Hereford and mid Wales ISTR).
Tnx fer headsup!
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20th Sep 2017, 5:36 pm | #3 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Thanks for posting that. It looks like one of those quirky places that are well worth making a detour for. Nice little video by the charming and enthusiastic lady owner, and what a great name for the museum too. Very appropriate to its location in Shropshire, given that 'the land of lost content' is taken from A.E. Housman's poem 'A Shropshire Lad':
'Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' 'That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again'.
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20th Sep 2017, 9:06 pm | #4 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Thanks very much for posting this, we'll deffo be calling in next time out travels take us through Craven Arms.
Cheers, Steve.
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20th Sep 2017, 9:10 pm | #5 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
One of my favourite museums, and rather different from the usual style!
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21st Sep 2017, 6:37 am | #6 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Blimey, I was in Craven Arms last Sunday. I would have looked for it if I'd have known. Still, it's less than an hour's drive away so I've got no excuse really.
A name that I think should be the title of a poem, methinks: 'Oh, please come back to my Craven Arms'. No? |
21st Sep 2017, 10:34 am | #7 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
To quote the wise words of St Bruno: 'Please come back to Craven A.'
(Okay... As my mother used to say: "You can put that in your pipe and smoke it.") Though not far it's been while since I've been in one of England's best kept secrets, the Shropshire hills, so this would seem a good excuse for a visit. |
21st Sep 2017, 11:48 am | #8 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
From their website, that museum sounds a very interesting place. I must visit it, but will need to arrange a few days holiday in Shropshire in order to do so.
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21st Sep 2017, 7:52 pm | #9 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
A word of warning: if visiting during the cooler months, wear warm clothes. There's no noticeable heating in most of the areas.
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23rd Sep 2017, 8:30 am | #10 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Is Craven Arms a place?
I thought it was a pub, like Craven Heifer! |
23rd Sep 2017, 8:48 am | #11 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Post code SY7 9NW put that into a maps application, yes it’s a place, seems to have a pub as well with the same name.
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23rd Sep 2017, 9:15 am | #12 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
I've been to this museum and can highly recommend it.
The radio and television section is better than you might expect, in fact television is covered from the 1930's to the 1970's. It is amazing how much stuff is crammed into this building and you need plenty of time to take it all in. There is good parking near by as well. |
25th Sep 2017, 12:38 pm | #13 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
I went on Saturday- well worth the trainride up from Leominster with its splendid view of Stokesay Castle just before you arrive in Craven Arms.
We added somewhat to the induced nostalgia by eating lunch at the Station Café- itself something of a '60s survivor kind of place. It's a long time since I enjoyed tinned cream of chicken soup with mushrooms on white bread toast! My sister had a serious all day breakfast too. Look out for the "Tuffnol" (sic) sheet alongside some Formica
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25th Sep 2017, 7:07 pm | #14 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Ah, now I get it, it's the Land of Lost Con*tent*. That's very poignant.
Whereas the Land of Lost *Con*tent is my shed. I must have a tidy-up. |
25th Sep 2017, 8:13 pm | #15 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
I went to Craven Arms by train a few years ago but did not know about the Land of Lost Content museum. There are also the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre as well as Stokesay Castle, as has been mentioned. Must have been blind as I never saw the Station Cafe. Yet there are several nice pubs and an outdoor eating place in the centre of the town that has wonderful cakes! Really I should go again.
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26th Sep 2017, 12:24 pm | #16 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
The Station Café isn't at the station- it's on the opposite side of the main road from the station access road. It does have railway themed pictures on the walls inside though.
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26th Sep 2017, 10:25 pm | #17 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Where did that acute accent come from? It's rather good and quite appropriate but I have no recollection of doing it- I just typed "Cafe".
Any ideas?
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26th Sep 2017, 10:42 pm | #18 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Probably down to your spellchecker. Mine also adds an accent.
Café.
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27th Sep 2017, 11:45 pm | #19 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
Ah, thanks. Quite plausible- the accented café was typed at work on a windows/windows explorer machine. The unaccented version was typed at home on a linux/firefox machine where a copy/paste from open office is needed to get the accented é.
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30th Sep 2017, 8:15 pm | #20 |
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Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire
On the standard UK PC keyboard, holding down the <ALT Gr> key while typing a vowel produces the accented version, thus: áéíóú
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