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5th Sep 2018, 12:15 pm | #1 |
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Museum of Nostalgia
Not sure if this place has ever been mentioned before on this forum, but it does have items of interest to us in its collection.
This weekend is the last dates for opening this year. Here is someones review and some details. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/201...-ancient-barn/ John |
5th Sep 2018, 3:25 pm | #2 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
Plus two more September – 22nd/23rd and October – 6th/7th. I might take a train day* and have a look.
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5th Sep 2018, 3:28 pm | #3 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
It's not as good as it used to be................
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6th Sep 2018, 9:36 am | #4 |
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6th Sep 2018, 10:19 am | #5 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
I went there a while ago. Loved it. Pictures here
https://www.***********/photos/hounda...57693760087302 |
6th Sep 2018, 1:33 pm | #6 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
A refreshing change from most museums where the art of presentation vastly overfaces the items being presented... you know, vast white spaces, large expensive display cabinets and very little of what you came to see.
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6th Sep 2018, 7:02 pm | #8 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
I am told a lot of people go to such museums and come away thinking 'I used to have one of those'. I go to such museums and come away thinking 'I was using one of those yesterday'
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6th Sep 2018, 8:12 pm | #9 |
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It's a lot more of a blow to go to a museum and find in it some of the actual things you used to use and a couple of things you designed!
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6th Sep 2018, 9:33 pm | #10 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
Well in my case "A Thing" rather than things in the science museum and I was just a member of a team. It's in the information age exhibition and it looks just like the day I left the project in 1978 althouh missing its PTD.
I went there with my eldest son in 2014 and there it was......... A bit of a shock to be honest! Has that much of my life really passed me by Cheers Mike T
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6th Sep 2018, 10:11 pm | #11 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
that place looks a lot like the late Les Oakes's place, though on a different scale
https://youtu.be/jbOLP3_isfw
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6th Sep 2018, 11:41 pm | #12 |
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Kevin, must be 30 to 40 years since I was last there. Is it still there? I remember buying chimney pots, but was it Les or a relative nearby? Memory!
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7th Sep 2018, 11:24 am | #13 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
Looks rather like some of the places I've visited in rural France, perhaps less cobwebby!
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7th Sep 2018, 12:33 pm | #14 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
Not unlike my own sheds, but a rather different selection of stuff
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8th Sep 2018, 7:13 pm | #15 |
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Well I went there today after reading this and it was closed. Phoned and left a voicemail, no call back. Most disappointed, waste of a day.
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9th Sep 2018, 1:02 pm | #16 |
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Re: Museum of Nostalgia
Same here - took two friends along only to be greeted by a locked door and I'd checked their website before we left
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