A day of Pictures

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After all these 'wordy' posts, I'm going to give my right forefinger a rest and put up a few pictures I took at Milton Keynes Museum.

When Milton Keynes was built as a 'new town', many small villages were swallowed up. I think it was thirteen in all. Very sad.....a lost way of life. The museum was set up to preserve some of this for future generations. There was loads to see....I reckon you need a couple of days to take it all in. And they said the museum is still developing!

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Of course a lot of it is what you would expect to find at a museum, except that this built up around and in an old farmhouse and its buildings. The Wolverton estate was owned by John Radcliffe, the very same man that the famous Oxford hospital is named after. There is a short video here filmed in Radcliffe's front room (shown above).

On the site there is also a 'Telephone museum', interesting to me, but I fear a bit boring to some. .

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Many of the rooms in the house are constructed and equipped to show how thing used to be....a working kitchen, a laundry and this schoolroom below.

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Behind the farmhouse the barns have been converted into 'streets' of shops, each one fully stocked. There were far too many to show here.

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Just two to give you an idea. Click on the pic. to see the detail.

The Haberdashery.

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What I liked most about this museum, is that you could go into nearly all of the shops and touch the items. All they ask is "handle all items gently and with care" and "do not touch paper or cloth items".

The Ironmongers.

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I used the word "haberdashery" above, but on looking it up it pertains to men's attire.

Now a milliner sells ladies hats ....but how would you describe the shop selling ladies 'bits and pieces'?

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