Saturday 30th August 2025, 20:38
As i usually do I visited the municipal museum. In this part of the country Roman remains are thick on the ground and one of the first things one sees is a Roman grave stone
Yet another lion
And a smaller cat
Upstairs is a fine airy gallery
with a number of interesting items including Beast IX by Lynn Chadwick
And another lion has sneaked in amongst the farmyard animals
There are quite a few clocks in the museum including a dozen or so long case clock, none of which are running. Are said to one of the museum employees that I thought that this was rather a shame and she excused on grounds of expense. I'm pretty sure that once the clocks were put in working order there would be very little ongoing expense.
The little collection of tools made by John Davis as an apprentice at Fielding and Platt was interesting. Not a lot had changed twenty five years later when I did a workshop course at university and had to make a Toolmakers clamp just like John's. Except that as he was making his as part of his apprenticeship his is much better executed than mine! Mine was just part of a three week course intended to make it possible for us Applied Physics students to make our own experimental rigs
As I went back to the stairs to go back down to the ground floor I noticed this desk. It's interesting because it is clearly intended to be used while sitting down on an ordinary height chair. In my, admittedly limited, personal experience of angled drawing surfaces (O-level technical drawing) they are best used while either standing or sitting on a tall stool
The outside of the museum
