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Brigham · 5th Aug 2020, 3:57 pm

I like 'museums of everyday life' to contain everyday objects. It's too easy for the wrong impression to be given,
In reality, NOBODY had gas radios or spirit-lamp gramophones, when taken at a reasonable number of decimal places.
At my local 'life' museum, it turned out that today's kids couldn't run with a hoop and stick. The blacksmith duly obliged with a batch having the hoop passing through an eye on the end of the stick.
All well and good, you might think; except that the poor wee lambs now think that a hoop and stick is a single item!

5th Aug 2020, 3:57 pm	#19
Brigham Octode Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Co. Durham, UK. Posts: 1,116	Re: Getting the right radio into a museum I like 'museums of everyday life' to contain everyday objects. It's too easy for the wrong impression to be given, In reality, NOBODY had gas radios or spirit-lamp gramophones, when taken at a reasonable number of decimal places. At my local 'life' museum, it turned out that today's kids couldn't run with a hoop and stick. The blacksmith duly obliged with a batch having the hoop passing through an eye on the end of the stick. All well and good, you might think; except that the poor wee lambs now think that a hoop and stick is a single item!