Tag: history
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Museums of The World: Weston Park Museum.
Weston Park museum is just a short walk from home for me so this is a kind of regular haunt of mine. In the middle of Weston Park the museum was once a mansion house that housed the art collection of John Newton Mappin, a Rotherham buisnessman. Thusly the name above the original entrance of…
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10 Odd Historic Photos.
I find myself looking at historic photos a lot, every day in fact. Sometimes I stumble upon some very odd photos. I’d like to share some of those with you now. You may have seen some of these photos before or this may be the first time you are seeing them. A couple of these…
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The Atlantic Wall (AKA, the museum that was closed)
On the 3rd of March 2023 a friend and I set out from where we were staying in Bruges to see the The Atlantic Wall. It was a fairly short journey by train that took around 30 minutes. There are many areas in which there are remains of the coastal defences erected by the Axis…
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Centre Point.
At the bottom end of Oxford Street and just next to Tottenham Court Road station is a 34 storey tower by the name of Centre Point. It’s a very distinctive building that is instantly recognisable. Centre Point was designed by George Marsh in a very distinctive style and construction started in 1963. The building was…
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Museums of the World: National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield.
I’ve been wanting to visit the National Coal Mining museum for years. Coming as I did from East London I never really knew anything about mining in Yorkshire and the communities that it created. When I first moved to Yorkshire I was often told about how the way of life of the miner was destroyed…
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Museums of the World: In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres.
This was such an incredible experience and well worth the trip to Ypres. As I’ve mentioned before, my main criteria for any museum is how much they Inform, Educate and Entertain. In Flanders Fields museum fulfilled all of these criteria with ease. The museum is located in the second floor of the Cloth Hall building…
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An Unassuming Bandstand.
Some days while on my morning walk to work I pass this beautiful bandstand in the middle of Weston Park in Sheffield. There were once two bandstands like this in Sheffield, the second being in Hillsborough Park. The Hillsborough one is long gone which makes Weston Park’s bandstand the last surviving Victorian Bandstand in Sheffield.…
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A Sombre Trip to Ypres.
When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…
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Memling Cinema, Bruges.
When most people go abroad the first thing they search for is restaurants, supermarkets, museums etc. Me? Well, I look for abandoned and closed down cinemas. Bruges was no exception. I’d started hunting down old cinemas in Bruges a couple of weeks before I even got there. There was just one. The Memling Cinema. In…
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Museums of the World: Bruges Torture Museum.
Readers that don’t like to see images of the torture of wax people please stop now. Here’s a nice picture of a sunrise in my local park early one January morning. No actual living human is being injured in any of the following photos and any blood is simply red paint but, if you absolutely,…
The History Hunter 