It's the guys behind the Framley Examiner
But it's a serious bit of work about folks who run odd little attractions around the UK. Gnome World sticks out in my memory as a corker. I'm sure you'll love it!
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 21:57,
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p.s. this is one of my favourite places in the UK
OK, I've not been there since I was about 9, but it's magic. Bressingham Steam Museum www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7aQbBkYn9c
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:31,
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I have the strangest feeling I've been there
Or somewhere very like it. Something magical about steam and such. Fuck taking my kids to Alton Towers.
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if you get a chance
www.internalfire.com/ is aces!
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LP, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:43,
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We've got a couple here in Sussex. Actually a really good day out.
Except when the strange Kim Newman lookalikes with their goggles and waistcoats turn up.
(working museums I mean)
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Amberly Working Museum
is possibly not unreasonably far from you, and they've got 3 lovely big strowger telephone exchanges!
not that I'm at all obsessed with strowger telephone exchanges
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LP, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:08,
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Where some of the ending of View To A Kill was filmed, no less!
*local knowledge
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I spend a couple of weekends a month down that way
do you have any other recommendations for local attractions?
Edit: Apart from The Bluebell railway of which I'm a member
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LP, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:13,
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Well, other than those two there's one in Brighton itself which I believe is (or was) called The Engineerium?
Which has huge working machines and whatnot. Right near the greyhound stadium in Hove if you know there.
There's also somewhere on the boarder between Sussex and Hampshire but I can't remember what it's called sorry. It's like a fare/working museum. Not been there in years myself, but my friend took her little boy there last year so I know it's definitely still running.
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Thanks!
I shall dig out some tourist maps and see if I can work out where those are.
Hurrah for days out!
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LP, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:24,
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Engineerium has been closed for renovation for a bit
They seem to do a monthly open day though, but I'm not sure what that involves.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 23:46,
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Just to throw it in even though it's not geographically suited; I bloody love the Black Country Museum. It's a reconstructed little old Victorian mining town full of amazingly friendly yam-yams:
www.bclm.co.uk/
And they do amazing fish and chips with proper old reconditioned fish-n-chip shop stuff, and have a little old cinema that only plays charlie chaplin (and other oldies I wouldn't be able to name).
AND I think I bought a copy of the old testament in the 'black country dialect' from there once. Powerful. Very powerful. +4 to strength, but -2 to intelligence :/
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 14 Jan 2013, 22:44,
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