119 Saturday 21 May 2022 Blackburn Museum
This was Simon's choice of trip, a musum that we hadn't visited yet.
Before we set off , I made an important purchase, a Family and Friends railcard that made some destinations further afield affordable.
We took the train to Blackburn. We had some time to kill before the museum opened so we went to the Cathedral.
We looked round the interior before heading to the tea room.
We then went to where I remembered a record shop but it was now a vaping store. We then had a look for Reedy's music store. In the course of searching for this, we had an unexpected encounter with the in-laws who still live in the town. Eventually we learned the shop had moved to an out of town location. We still had a bit of time to kill so we mooched around the library.until the museum opened.
The ground floor was a bit of a mish-mash of mainly Victorian artefacts.
These machines reflected Blackburn's industrial past.
I liked the collection of Eastern Christian icons.
Simon had a go at drawing in the Art Gallery.
Like most long-established civic museums, it has an Egyptology section and its own mummy.
After that we went to Waterstones for lunch. As we had a bit of a wait for the next train we did some shopping at Asda.
When we got home, I realised I'd left my coat in the waiting room at Blackburn Station so I had to go back up the line to retrieve it. Good job the trip was near home !
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