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Thursday 30th August - Collectors World day

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Posted by: knightrider45 Thursday 30th August 2007, 11:59pm

Now I'm back on holiday after my three overtime shifts, we're back to entertaining our Australian cousins as we have use of the car in the day again. Today my wife, her cousin, and my daughter went shopping in Kings Lynn.

I and the cousins husband, fed up of walking around shops, decided to drop the ladies off in Kings Lynn and we went onto Collectors World at Downham Market.

Not a bad visit for only £5.50 entrance fee. If you're heavily into history, as I am, I'd really recommend it, although I must admit with a few reservations.

Yes, we enjoyed it. The musuem is known for (and constantly advertises) it's walk down a Dickens/Victorian street. Okay for what it is, but the whole thing is really dark and spoilt my camcorder DVD as it is too dark to record properly - it really needs more lighting to really do it justice.

The whole Street was cold and damp and the displays covered in dust and cobwebs in parts. It really wasn't what I was expecting, but the display was good for what it was. If you're thinking of a wide street, you're wrong. The shop fronts are built into a widened corridor which winds its way through the main building.

Other than that, we liked the commercial history on show - there was early cookers, stoves, toys, advertisements, an old photographers shop, a computer section and so on, basically all household items had been collected, or donated, and put on show.

The displays take you from the early Victorian/Charles dickens era through to the 1940's, and as I said, its good if your'e into the social history side of life. Needs a good clean up though.

Would I go again? Yes I would, and I'm sure the Christmas display, along with adequate heating and lighting, blows people away during the Festive season, and that's when I'd go again.

Apart from the domestic collections, there's a good display of Armstrong Cars and a couple of small chapels.

So, having walked around the musuem, we left to pick the ladies up at 1pm from Morrisons car park, came back home and had a chill out afternoon.

Laurie gave me a nice suprise when I got home yesterday because he'd cut the grass, back and front, for me and cleared up the back garden as he'd got bored being at home all day as i had the car at work on my (unwanted) day shifts.

I've made plans now that on Sunday, the day before the cousins leave us to go back home, that they both plant a flowering bush or plant in the back garden. I shall always remember them then as the bush flowers every year.

We have never seen so much of Norfolk as we have done over the last three weeks or so. It's been brilliant to leave my debt ridden world for a while, and for that alone I shall be grateful for a long time to come.

The photo attached to this blog shows one of the Armstrong cars we saw today.

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