Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
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Blickling Estate
Blickling is a large estate and stately home, with walks through 4,600 acres of woodland, parkland and farmland, 55 acres of formal gardens and a splendid Jacobean house and a museum dedicated to a WW2 bomber station. Much is made of Blickling being Anne Boleyn’s childhood home; she is even said to haunt the place,
Beatles Story
The Beatles’ Story in Liverpool is a museum that, literally, tells the story of the Beatles – from childhood, to when Paul met John, the early days in Hamburg, the Cavern, meeting Brian Epstein, George Martin, worldwide success, the end of touring, Sergeant Pepper, messy divorce and beyond. The Beatles Story claims to be the
Apsley House
For years, Apsley House was simply known as ‘No 1, London’ – it being the first house of any note encountered when arriving from the west. No other address was needed. These days, its location is more forlorn, one of the busiest traffic roundabouts in London, Hyde Park Corner. It was, famously the London home
Richard III Visitor Centre
Leicester’s Richard III Visitor Centre tells the story of Richard III, including the background to the 15th century civil war known as the Wars of the Roses. But, mostly, it tells the incredible story of the search for and discovery of Richard’s remains under a car park, where they had lain since being buried hastily
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Bronte Parsonage
The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth is a focal point for all Bronte fans. The Bronte family moved to Haworth in 1820, when Patrick Bronte was appointed ‘perpetual curate’ of the parish church. They lived in the Parsonage, where the three immensely talented sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne – wrote some of the finest
National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery does what it says; it was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British people. Its collection includes over 200,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day, created in a wide variety of mediums. These include drawings, miniatures, negatives, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures and many more. It can
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Blists Hill Victorian Town
Blists Hill is an open air museum, recreating a Victorian town on a 52-acre former industrial site that included mines, blast furnaces and a section of the Shropshire Canal. Some of the buildings are original, others have been relocated and some are replicas. There’s a fascinating range of things to see, from shops, a bank
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Lakeland Motor Museum
The Lakeland Motor Museum is something for the petrol-heads, the nostalgists – and a great rainy day option for the Lakes. This is a serious motor museum. 30,000 exhibits are claimed, including wonderful classic cars, bicycles (who knew there were so many types?) and what is possibly the largest collection of ‘automobilia’ (motoring memorabilia) in
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Duxford
IWM Duxford is mainly an aviation museum housed on a historic RAF airfield, which was also used by the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. It houses the Imperial War Museum’s huge collection of historic aircraft and other large items, such as tanks. Permanent exhibitions include the American Air Museum, Battle
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park was the home of the top-secret code breakers of World War Two, whose work had a profound impact on the war. It has been claimed that their success in intercepting enemy signals and breaking codes shortened the war by two years. For years, very few people knew about their work, most famously centred
British Museum
Established by an Act of Parliament in 1753, the British Museum opened its doors in Montagu House, on its present site in London’s then fashionable Bloomsbury area, on 15 January 1759. It is an astonishing place that, in its own words, tells the story of cultural achievement throughout the world, from the dawn of human