Tag: visit yorkshire

• 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…

  Alan Peters

  23rd Apr 2023

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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…

  Alan Peters

  22nd Mar 2023

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• Yorkshire Air Museum.

  Back in November I took a drive to Doncaster’s Yorkshire Air Museum. I’d discovered the museum online and, as it was only a 30 minute drive for me, decided to visit one damp Saturday morning. The one plane that really caught my attention before even visiting was the Hawker Siddeley Jump Jet. When I was…

  Alan Peters

  5th Jan 2023

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