A nose pressed against the store windows of York Castle Museum

Thank you fellers. Well if any of my Traditionals brothers are thinking of visiting, I'd be very pleased to show you around. The offers always open :)
 
Thanks for the wonderful tour Jack! It was amazing... Thanks for taking the time to do this. You're the man.

Jason
 
That was cool Jack. Any chance of the Yorvik centre if its still there?
Meanwhile I'm off to buy a "health pipe". Who said advertising is a load of old b -codswallop?
 
Thank you so much for the time and effort that you put in to share this with us Jack:thumbup:
I had to bookmark this one so I can revisit and really peruse some of your photos...most enjoyable.
 
Thanks for taking the time to share with us. I thoroughly enjoyed the text, and like Sarah, will be returning to peruse the photos.
 
Wow, this was so great to go through this Thread ( as per usual ), I love photos of old Weaponry and sorts, thanks so much Jack.
 
Ah, those rapiers and two-handers are marvellous! A couple of years ago I visited Scotland with my wife and saw some nice swords in the castle of Edinburgh and the national museum.
 
Thank you very much for all your kind comments. I'm glad this was of interest :)

meako said:
That was cool Jack. Any chance of the Yorvik centre if its still there?
Meanwhile I'm off to buy a "health pipe". Who said advertising is a load of old b -codswallop?
Click to expand...

Thanks Meako. York has some great museums. I followed the original Jorvik dig with great interest and was on their mailing list, and that of the subsequent Jorvik Viking Centre (http://jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/), which as you know was built directly over the site. When it first opened though, the queues were so huge (half a day long) that I didn't visit it for a couple of years or so. When I did though, I was disappointed by the Disneyesque nature of the museum - trains to whisk you past the exhibits and that awful perfumed manure smell - and by what was on display. Maybe, after all the years of build-up, I was just expecting too much, but it compared very poorly to the Vikings In England exhibition, which I'd seen at the Yorkshire Museum in York a few years before. Now, the queues are more seasonal, big at the moment, but not in the winter. So maybe when the autumn comes I'll give it another go, and try and take a few photographs as the train takes me past the displays :)
 
I imagine that those old Luddites would be spinning in their graves at the thought of one of their number being resurrected in the hammy performance of a jobbing actor, digitally projected onto the wall of the cell in which he may well have been held before being executed! From the few seconds I saw of it, it's not a good performance either! :eek:
 
Wow !

Big thanks for posting this Jack,
It took me back some. I grew up in Scarborough and our day trips to York and York castle were the annual, big calender event for our school. Our model rail enthusiast teacher would always find a way to drag the whole class to Monk Bar model shop to pick up some Hornby bits and bobs...
I'd love to go back there one day.
( I ended up at York College of Arts and Tech, but I was waaaaay too cool in my teen years for museums ...)
 
asiparks said:
Wow !

Big thanks for posting this Jack,
It took me back some. I grew up in Scarborough and our day trips to York and York castle were the annual, big calender event for our school. Our model rail enthusiast teacher would always find a way to drag the whole class to Monk Bar model shop to pick up some Hornby bits and bobs...
I'd love to go back there one day.
( I ended up at York College of Arts and Tech, but I was waaaaay too cool in my teen years for museums ...)
Click to expand...

You're very welcome my friend. I have many happy childhood memories of Scarborough, canoeing at Peasholme Park in particular. The model shop at Monk Bar is still there! :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top