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Old 20th Sep 2017, 5:00 pm   #1
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Default 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/
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Old 20th Sep 2017, 5:25 pm   #2
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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).


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Old 20th Sep 2017, 5:36 pm   #3
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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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Old 20th Sep 2017, 9:06 pm   #4
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Thanks very much for posting this, we'll deffo be calling in next time out travels take us through Craven Arms.

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One of my favourite museums, and rather different from the usual style!
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Old 21st Sep 2017, 6:37 am   #6
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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'.

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Old 21st Sep 2017, 10:34 am   #7
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Default 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.
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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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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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Old 23rd Sep 2017, 8:30 am   #10
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Is Craven Arms a place?
I thought it was a pub, like Craven Heifer!
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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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Old 23rd Sep 2017, 9:15 am   #12
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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.
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Old 25th Sep 2017, 12:38 pm   #13
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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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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.
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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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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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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".

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Default Re: Land of lost content museum, Craven Arms, Shropshire

Probably down to your spellchecker. Mine also adds an accent.

Café.
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Old 27th Sep 2017, 11:45 pm   #19
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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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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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