Museum Tip – non Aviation

Ah well you’re from Wednesfield and thus easily amused.;)

Ahem, we share a border and theres a bus outside my house that crosses it every 10 minutes you know!! Ya Varlet!

I have, sadly yet to visit Alrewas. Feel guilty as I pass it on a regular basis on the way to Donington Park or my brothers. It seems to be on Midlands Today every other week. I MUST make the effort to visit. I mean, I go to Cosford at least 6 times a year. Staffs museum (Whittington?) is again somewhere I passed as a delivery driver but never stopped. Again, not very far and another guilty omission from my museum visits.

‘The Bedford Incident’. 😉

That’s it – “If he fires one, I’ll fire one” ….”Firing one Sir”.:eek:

…the Richard Widmark movie where they are stalking a Soviet sub around the ice pack.

‘The Bedford Incident’. 😉

…..They showed me how the waste compressor worked. Grabbed a pop can out the mess and put it in this contraption. whoosh. Now wafer thin. COOOLL! especially when you were 12!! Still got it. Its in the loft. Never part with it!!

Ah well you’re from Wednesfield and thus easily amused.;)

Staffordshire Regiment Museum is always worth a visit. The Coltman Trench is an interesting exhibit and if you have any questions regarding the Regiment the staff are a fount of knowledge. I’ve always found Colour Sergeant Turner to be most helpful.

Not a Museum but still in Staffordshire is the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas. Growing almost as fast as the trees planted there, it is a truly fascinating place which I still find intensely moving after numerous visits. Particularly emotional for me are the FEPOW Memorials, the new Armed Forces Memorial and the Merchant Navy grove. To stand in a grove of over 2,000 trees and realise that each tree denotes a lost Merchant Navy vessel is moving and chilling in equal measure.

But it’s not just the Arboretum, it’s the people you occasionally meet and the reasons why they are there that can make a visit even more memorable.

Regards,

kev35

Went on HMS Sceptre at 1979 Plymouth Navy Days. Armed Gurads standing around covered up computers! Was given a souvenier by one of the officers. They showed me how the waste compressor worked. Grabbed a pop can out the mess and put it in this contraption. whoosh. Now wafer thin. COOOLL! especially when you were 12!! Still got it. Its in the loft. Never part with it!!

Is U-505 the one that the Americans captured to break the enigma code and so win the war !?:diablo:

Oh deary, deary me!

I’d put those asbestos undies on now, while you still can. 😮

I recently had the chance to go aboard U-505 in the Chicago museum of Science and Industry, was an excellent exhibit but I think they could have gone into more detail about the vessel and life on it rather than just the story of how it was captured.

Inspired me to re-watch Das Boot when I got home anyway! 😀

So what are everyone else’s favourite Submarine movies?

Is U-505 the one that the Americans captured to break the enigma code and so win the war !?:diablo:

Has to be “Das Boot”, “Red October” for me, and although IIRC you never actually see the sub, the Richard Widmark movie where they are stalking a Soviet sub around the ice pack. “Danno” from “Hawaii 5 O” fires a missle at the end.

I recently had the chance to go aboard U-505 in the Chicago museum of Science and Industry, was an excellent exhibit but I think they could have gone into more detail about the vessel and life on it rather than just the story of how it was captured.

Inspired me to re-watch Das Boot when I got home anyway! 😀

So what are everyone else’s favourite Submarine movies?

Sore point…..I’ve been meaning to go for…..er…..fifteen years now…..how time flies! 😮

seriously – I’d say take a day and make the trip, its a real eye opener.

…the walk through tour of the WW2 Alliance class submarine is a real eye opener…

Sore point…..I’ve been meaning to go for…..er…..fifteen years now…..how time flies! 😮

Claustrophobic, your not kiding. We went through the USS Panpanito in
San Francisco, anybody volunteering for Subs must be crazy.:eek:

Yes went through the Pampanito about 16yrs ago,very claustrophobic,my friend really didnt want to be there and I have the photo to prove it (engine room i think ?),she was seriously unhappy.
We also went round the 1886 Square Rigger Balclutha,being shown around by a Park Ranger in a ‘yogi bear’ ranger hat meant I was having trouble keeping a straight face 😀

Balclutha photo…

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=10&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrederickleblancphoto.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Ftall-ship-balclutha.html&ei=8k6lSpjJNpaNjAef16WcDg&rct=j&q=balclutha+ship&usg=AFQjCNFW4lgpirrpq-lZXO4ZYcxiB83lUA

Claustrophobic, your not kiding. We went through the USS Panpanito in
San Francisco, anybody volunteering for Subs must be crazy.:eek:

claustrophobic ! have to agree I could not wait to get out.

Used to be the home of the RN mothballed subs. Have been there many times and Haslar/ Cousin lives in Gosport and always make a point of visiting. And yes, it is VERY claustrophobic!! Well worth making time for this.