Visit to Creake Abbey & Baconsthorpe Castle
We are on holiday in Hunstanton, Norfolk and as we are members of English Heritage we looked at what is close by and decided on these to Baconsthorpe Castle & Creake Abbey as well...
Category: Historic
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery – Stoke-on-Trent Visit
We try to go to different city shopping centres when we go out shopping as going to the same towns with the same shops gets stale. Stoke-on-trent from us is about 45mins away. The...
Farnborough Hall Near Banbury Visit
We are National Trust members and while on a weekend away we visited Farnborough Hall after visiting Upton House which is nearby. Entrance for national trust members is free, normal entry prices for house...
Coventry Transport Museum Visit
A few weekends we had to drop our daughter off to Leamington Spa, so we decided on the way back we would visit Coventry, I persuaded the missus to go so could go round...
Mottistone Gardens & Compton Bay & Downs Visit
Mottistone Gardens Mottistone Gardens is on the south coast of the Isle of Wight and is part owned by the National Trust, Entrance is £5.80 Adults, £2.90 Children, £14.50 Family (non gift aid prices)....
Visit To Packwood House & Baddesley Clinton
We had to pick some furniture up from Knowle and as we are National Trust member we decided to visit two local attractions which were Baddesley Clinton & Packwood house, so here are quick...
Visit To Kinver Edge & Rock Houses
Our recent visit to the national trust Kinver Edge and rock houses, lovely place and a very nice walk , my review and photos
Carisbrooke Castle Visit – Isle of Wight
Carisbrooke castle is just outside of Newport on the Isle Of Wight and is owned by English Heritage. Entrance prices are £8.80 Adults, £5.20 Children. £25.20 Family (2 Adults, 3 Children) (non gift aid...
Visit To Tutbury Castle
On the way back from a visit to Sudbury Hall & Childhood museum, we decided to visit Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. We visited on Sunday 29th May and we didn’t realise that there was an...
Hall Green Greyhound Stadium Demolition
Hearing in the last week about the closure of Birmingham’s Hall Green Greyhound stadium it made me remember of a time I went there a good few years ago. At the time of writing...
Quick Walk Around Hayhead Wood Nature Reserve – Aldridge
We decided to take the dog for a walk around Hayhead Wood nature reserve in Aldridge. The nature reserve is off the A454 Aldridge Road and is set in 17 acres. The reserve has a mixture of woodland, wetland and grassland habitats. The now nature’s reserve was originally part of the hay head work which mined limestone,
Motor Museum Visit – Bourton-On-The-Water
While on a nice day out in Bourton on the water we visited a few attractions one of these was the Cotswold motoring museum and toy collection, price are £5.25 Adults, £3.74 Children (4-16yrs)...
Model Village Bourton-on-the-water Visit
While on a day trip to Bourton-on-the-water for the bank holiday we visited the model village, we had been to the model village before but this was about 15 years ago, so thought would...
National Space Museum Visit
We recently visited the national space Museum in Leicester, which is just outside the city centre. We got tickets using the must see three, which is one price for three attractions in the area...
Moseley Old Hall Visit
We decieded as we had a free afternoon to go visit Moseley Old Hall which is located in Fordhouses, just north of Wolverhampton. Entrance prices are Adult: £6.75, Child: £3.35 and Family ticket: £16.85...
Shugborough Hall and Estate
We recently went to Shugborough estate, as we are national trust members you get admission cheaper for the whole property even though is part a national trust property, this is because of a lease...
High Peak Junction Walk
After recently catching up on the Tony Robinson TV Series Walking through history, in the first episode I noticed him looking at a building on part of his walk and it reminded me that...
Attingham Park & Mansion
I visited Attingham park today, as I had finished sooner on some work in nearby Shrewsbury, and because have a family membership to the National Trust though I would just have a quick look...
Wall Roman Site (Letocetum)
A few months ago we visited the Wall Roman site (Letocetum) just off the A5 Watling Street, Staffordshire. Now I have lived around the are for most of my life but never visited this...
Wookey Hole & Caves
While we was on holiday at a Pontins holiday park in Brean Sands we decided to visit Wookey hole near Wells in Somerset , it was the choice between Wookey hole or Cheddar Gorge,...
Hornsea Museum – Yorkshire
Last year we visited the Hornsea museum in East Riding of Yorkshire, The museum looks small from the outside, but loads to do and discover inside. So don’t be put off when you walk...
First Time Doing Geocaching
Recently the missus discovered geo-caching. The basics of geo-caching is were you explore different places using your smartphone or GPS device to find a box with items in. First you need to goto the...
Remembrance & Poppies
Just a quick post about remembrance Sunday, list of March’s about poppies. This year my daughter and set Epson and doing a March with the cadets the joined in Brownhills, T S Vigo that...
Castle ring
We live pretty close to castle ring so we do enjoy walking round there and there is also a very nice pub there “the park gate” so nice to have a walk then a...
Sudbury Hall & Museum of Childhood
We visited sudbury Hall and the museum of childhood recently, which is a national Trust property. Entrance cost to both the hall and the childhood museum is £13.50 adults, £6.75 children, £20.25 family (1...
Rotunda Museum – Scarborough
The Rotunda museum, is located just of the shore and within walking distance from the town centre of Scarborough. we visited while on holiday in the area, Children under 18 are free then prices...
National Brewery Experience
We decided one day last year to go to the national Brewery Centre in Burton-upon-Trent. One reason was we had a £10 Tesco exchange voucher left over and this could be used against the...
Cheddar Gorge
While we was on holiday and after visiting wookey hole, we went to Cheddar gorge on the way back to our accommodation, Now I myself had visited Cheddar gorge years ago this was when...
Bantock Park and Museum
Today we visited Bantock Park and Museum which is just about 1 mile out of Wolverhampton City Centre. Bantock House is set in 43 acres of park lane. There is parking onsite which is...
Snibston Discovery Museum
We recently went to Snibston a museum of discovery in Coalville, Leicestershire, it is run by Leicestershire county council. We decided to go here as one of the kids went on a school trip...
Kent’s Caverns – Prehistoric Caves
While on holiday in devon we went to Kents Cavern which is just outside Torquay, which is a prehistoric cave, entrance prices are 8.95 adults and 7.95 for children / seniors. If you book...
Wroxeter Bath House Ruins & Villa
We went on a few months ago, but just forgot to write this article to Wroxeter, this is where there are the ruins of the Roman city with the exposed ruins of the old...
RAF Air Museum Cosford
We recently visited the RAF Air Museum at Cosford, Shropshire, this is the second time I have visited this attraction in about 18 months, Entrance is free to the museum, though you do have to...
Walsall Illuminations the end of a era
As most people will know the Walsall Illuminations in the town centre’s Arboretum has been cancelled for good. On Thursday 3rd March 2011, Council leader Mike Bird announced that the illuminations in its original form will...
Tamworth Castle Ghost Search
On Friday 16th July we went to a ghost search / hunt evening at Tamworth castle, the price was £32 per person. The evening starts at 8pm and ends at approx 12:30am, I went as I...
Llangollen & Pistyll Rhaeadr Waterfall
We went to llangollen for a special day trip the other Sunday, From where we are was around a 1hr 30min drive, Llangollen is a small town in North Wales, the river Dee runs through the...
Tamworth Castle
We had a visit to Tamworth castle a few weeks ago, the entrance price was £5 For adults and £3 For children. When we went there was no mayor events on, though through out...
Warwick Castle Visit
We all had a nice day out at Warwick Castle the other day, so here is my view on the day out. First I am glad we got some buy on get on free...
Ironbridge day out
We went to Ironbridge on Easter bank holiday Monday, so thought I would share some information and photos. Ironbridge has 10 different museums, the best way to pay to go into them is by...
National Trust Free Weekend
Just though I would share this, the national trust are doing a free weekend this weekend the 20th and 21st march 2010, this is free entry to their attractions, so a great time to...
