236 Saturday 21st September 2024 Williamson Park Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead
Simon asked me to do a menu of possible trip choices and he selected a visit to Williamson Museum and Art Gallery at Birkenhead. We took the train, going via Wigan. This is a pensive Simon at Wigan North Western train station.
Excepting football trips to Tranmere Rovers, this was my first visit to Birkenhead. We went to the Wetherspoons for lunch first. On our way back the name of this (possibly ex-) shop caused us some amusement.
It was a bit of a walk to the gallery but at least the weather was fine.
Simon wanted a rest before we went inside.
We started with the temporary exhibition "Into The Wyld - A Journey Into Arthuriana". a multi-discplinary response to the tale of Gawain and the Green Knight. We were seeing Part Two looking at chivalry. This is Spectre., a Mari Llwyd sculpture. In Welsh tradition the Mari Lywyd was taken to households who had to engage in a verbal duel with its carriers to keep it at bay.
This sculpture relates more directly to the tale.
I'm not quite sure what's going on here.
This film created and performed by Angelo Madonna is called "Conversations and Songs" and touches on the Grail legend.
We liked this picture from the permanent galleries.
We also liked this decorative sideboard.
This sculpture also caught our eye.
The museum part emphasised Birkenhead's shipping heritage.
There was still some nice artwork.
We liked this vase.
During our look around the museum we encountered a local nutter and moved on promptly. Later we saw him helping himself at a buffet for a private function at which he was almost certainly not one of the guests. Scousers eh ?
We had coffe and cake at the cafe before moving on. We called at a record shop that was on our way back. I was somewhat alarmed by a strong smell of burning in there but we were unharmed. We then bought a pair of trainers for Simon from the shopping centre.
We commenced our journey home at Birkenead Central station with its non-working clock.
WE alighted at Liverpool Lime Street and were walking behind a group of loud youths. As we reached the bottom of the up escalators from the underground platform one of them vomited on the floor. We kept our distance as he then vomited again on the escalator itself. Scousers eh ?
The rest of our journey home was uneventful.
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