Category: History

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – A shameless plug

For any of you in the South Wales / West area: This weekend the town of Usk holds its’ annual Gardens Open event. The town is famous for its’ floral displays, and regularly wins awards in both ‘Wales in Bloom’ and ‘Britain in Bloom’ competitions. The Gardens Open event has been featured on BBC’s Gardeners World, and many other programmes, and folks travel from far and wide to attend this event. For this weekend only local people open their private gardens for viewing; you purchase a ‘Gardens Passport’ at one of several well-signed points in the town, and receive in return a map of all the gardens you are then entitled to visit. Around 25-30 facinating gardens are open, some small, some big – including the magnificant Usk Castle, where if you’re very lucky yours truely and a bunch of other Guiders will mug you for your money but give you a cup of tea and a freshly-cooked welsh cake to apologise! On Sunday at the castle you will be able to catch a sneak preview of the forthcoming Son et Lumiere production celebrating the Owain Glendwr anniversary.

All money raised goes to local charity. If you like gardening, and fancy a day out in a beautiful and historic town, then I’ll see you there!

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – what makes a good museum?

Hi All, I think it depends what you expect or want from the museum – if you want to know about local heritage and what ‘made’ the town then our museum certainly covers that. Our local museum is by no means grand so has good and bad points to it, the most astonishing of which I discovered recently was that it loaned (if not given) articacts to the British Museum. I don’t know much about museum ettiquette, but I have never been to the British museum (yet – I know, I know) so don’t know if the finds are of extraordinary importance or what the relevance of them is. The local castle has recently been ‘re-excavated’ the discoveries and outcomes of which, I found in a back room, tucked on the top floor at the back of the building with very little detail as to how, for example, the excavations were carried out. Perhaps this is because the ‘average’ tourist isn’t bothered, but that’s one heck of an assumption to make. The museum itself tends to focus more on artefacts from Egypt discovered in someone’s front room about 50 years ago. The rest, maps and local tools and equipment used by the Police and local seamstresses. Overall, not wholly my cup of tea, but then as I’ve said, it depends what your cup of tea is

Time only matters, when it’s running out…

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