Hire people who can talk knowledgeable and in English about the exhibits.

Dont be silly Baz if they only had people that could speak English only half the population of this Country would understand them. :diablo:

Cosford means an overnight stay for me too….if Hendon did close were would you put everything?

In my shed????:dev2:

….you saying pikeys are using Harriers now……….

I can tell you one thing makes a Spitty smoke like a train :diablo:

big shed is it!!!:D:D hope youve some good lighting:eek: btw i’ve room in mine for the Phantom and Lightning you can keep the rest:)

Not a bad size knocked it up over a weekend in my back garden without planning permission, (Tempory structure) you are welcome to those noisy smelly jets I’ll take the rest. :diablo:

Alas, the state of the Science Museum in Kensington shows how far some of our museums have sunk in this direction. The last time I was there, three children running totally out of control crashed into me in three incidents in the course of the early afternoon. The third instance was frightning – a toddler ran straight under my feet in the gloomy area where the Black Arrow is kept. How I avoided falling I will never know. I wonder how the level of kinetic energy of a professional grade DSLR falling four feet compares with that needed to inflict lethal damage to the skull of a toddler?

I’m of the age where I’m no longer as steady on my feet as I used to be, and where old bones are starting to get a bit brittle. Deciding that it was not safe to remain there, I left the museum and have never been back.

I have to agree with you I went there aged 12 and then again recently I hardly recognised the place most of the amazing artifacts gone to be replaced with so called interactive crap, like a glorified amusment arcade.
The only part left worth looking at was the aviation hall.
I was told by a staff member the only reason its been left alone is because its too difficult to remove the aircraft and that it was only a matter of time before that goes to.
Off coarse you have to encourage Children but I dont remember being bored there age 12 I spent all day and had to practically dragged out.
The changes in general in this country and in London in particular over the last 30 years are quite beyond belief. 😡

I visit the Science and Natural History museums two or three times a year with my pre-teen kids (both girls) and they still love it. Compared to the dry dull and dusty racks of fossils they used to contain (not just the exhibits:dev2:) when I was a kid, I think the way museums have developed in recent years is quite fantastic. Anything can be displayed, but as long as it is shown in an interesting way, people will come along to see. Kids must be encouraged to interact or they will stay at home on the Wii.

I am always struck by the fact that – when observing school trips to Dx – the kids seem to get more out of the playground by the cafe, than Hanger 2. But is that really surprising?

Oh, and what is wrong about having other languages spoken by the staff at museums? We live in a multi-cultural society, with – shock horror – foreign visitors to our museums. If it was OK to drop bombs on them when the planes were in service, why can’t we explain why and how they did it, now they are not?

DS

Well Doc for starters I wasnt talking about the natural History museam. I hardly think you can call the cream of British Engineering History a dull and dusty rack of fossils.
I am sure your Girls did enjoy it, they would probably enjoy Disney Land and Butlins as well but that probably wont give them a sense of pride and amazement of what this Country achieved in engineering terms any more than the Science museam does now.
The place was a national institution and sadly the majority of people running this country have the same attitude as you and are happy to see reality replaced by interactivity.
As to dropping bombs on the people that you say now visit the SM. Thats a bit of a broad statement and a bit of an insult.
I think you might think about the fact that the people dropping the bombs made it possible to have the freedoms enjoyed by the Multi-cultural society we now have.
This Countrys supposed to be a democracy that means the majority decide what they want and how they want to live, its not racist to expect new members of our society to embrace and help to preserve our culture and dare I say it learn the bloody language.
When in Rome my Friend.

I agree with you 100% its a sad fact that the Country is lead by Morons and Bankers, the bonuses saga is quite outrageous, threatening to leave the Country if they are stopped, personally I would have called their bluff.
The pure arrogance of these people that without billions of public money being pumped into their business would have gone under is hard to fathom.
They hold us all to ransom and do just as they please with total contempt for any decency or conception of morality.
They don’t care a dam for the troops who keep their wealth and comfy lives safe so they are hardly likely to have any interest in remembering those who died or survived in the last War, It’s simply less money in their pockets.
They are a plaque on any decent society and it’s no wonder that the younger generation have no respect for their elders or anything else, who would have ? when all you read about in the papers is corruption, greed and the surrender of the rights of the majority.