The Fleet Air Arm Museum is hosted adjacent to RNAS Yeovilton, an operational air base home to more than 100 aircraft and some 4,300 personnel. The museum tells the story, which begins in 1909, of the Royal Navy in the air. The Royal Naval Air Service was founded in 1914, merged into the Royal Air
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Glasgow’s People’s Palace was designed to serve the working class of the east end of Glasgow, built on the historic Glasgow Green. For more than six centuries, Glasgow Green – the oldest public space in Glasgow – has been the common grazing ground, bleaching green, and a meeting, recreation and protest space for the city.
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The National Civil War Centre is a relatively small, but absorbing, museum dedicated to the so-called English Civil War of 1642-1651, mapping out the causes, course and consequences. Newark is an appropriate location. The town was held in the Royalist cause during the War and besieged three times by Parliamentary forces, in 1643, 1644 and
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Pictured are the gates of the former Salvation Army children’s home, Strawberry Field, which inspired John Lennon’s 1967 song, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. If you visit today – as any Beatles’ fan probably should – the gates you will see are replicas, and have been since 2011; the originals were put on display in The Beatles’
Berthed by Glasgow’s Riverside Museum is the SV (sailing vessel) Glenlee Known locally as ‘The Tall Ship’, this is one of the last steel-hulled bulk cargo carriers in existence, one of only 5 Clyde-built sailing ships still afloat – and the only one in Britain. Built in Port Glasgow and launched in 1896, the SV
Most of the objects in the award-winning Senhouse Roman Museum come from the adjacent 1st century Roman fort at Maryport (Alavna) and the civil settlement that was attached to it. The museum displays the largest group of Roman military altar stones and inscriptions from any site in Britain and unique examples of Romano-British religious sculpture.
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Arguably one of the best attractions in London, the medieval Tower of London, now surrounded by the 21st century City, has been so many things – Norman fortress, medieval palace, prison, place of execution – even a menagerie. There is so much to see, not least the Crown Jewels. William the Conqueror famously built a
York Castle Museum is an astonishingly varied, absorbing and fun museum, with a strong social history bias, which includes a walk-through reconstructed Victoria street, Kirkgate, and reconstructed rooms from houses through the ages. It even boasts a 1960s exhibition, which explores the culture of that pivotal decade. The museum has an enormous collection to suit
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Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is located on a corner of the historic Tangmere RAF station, which was on the front line during the Battle of Britain. It was from here that fighter ace Douglas Bader led the Tangmere Wing. RAF Tangmere also provided the forward take-off point for Lysander aircraft, based at RAF Tempsford in
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HMS M33 was built as a Royal Navy monitor in 1915 and is one of just three surviving Royal Navy ships from the First World War. She served at Gallipoli and Salonika and in 1919 was sent to northern Russia to support the anti-Bolshevik forces. In the 1920s, she was renamed ‘Minerva’ and given a
Today’s Nottingham Castle is mainly a preserved 17th century ‘Ducal Mansion’ built on the site of the city’s medieval castle, only parts of which remain (some of the walls and the gatehouse, for example). The castle towers over the city centre on a natural mound known as castle rock, which is riddled with caves. The
Beaulieu is a stately home as well as home to the National Motor Museum. The estate has been in the hands of the Montagu family since their ancestors acquired the estate in the 16th century and is based around the ruins of the medieval Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey. The National Motor Museum tells the story of
