Blackpool takes you back to the 80s.
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London takes you to a bleak inhospitable future filled with alienation.
Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 10:41 AM GMTLondon takes you to a bleak inhospitable future filled with alienation.
Yeah, good innit!
Quote: Moonstone @ November 25 2009, 10:09 PM GMTDoes anyone know if there are places in England where they replicate particular periods in history? I don't mean like theme parks, I mean kind of educational places where you just look around.
I've been here a couple of times and think it's very good;
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/home-page-english.htm
There's also a stone age recreation museum in Sussex, I think too.
The Victorian farm that on a BBC series of the same name is also open to the public. You can even stay in the properties.
I wish to find a pubic on the Victorian farm.
Quote: Moonstone @ November 25 2009, 10:09 PM GMTDoes anyone know if there are places in England where they replicate particular periods in history? I don't mean like theme parks, I mean kind of educational places where you just look around.
Well, there's Blists Hill museum in Iron Bridge. Very near me. Replicating the Victorian experience.
Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 2:39 PM GMTWell, there's Blists Hill museum in Iron Bridge. Very near me. Replicating the Victorian experience.
Will there be killers, mad surgeons and stacks of Opium?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 26 2009, 2:32 PM GMTI've been here a couple of times and think it's very good;
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/home-page-english.htm
There's also a stone age recreation museum in Sussex, I think too.
The Victorian farm that on a BBC series of the same name is also open to the public. You can even stay in the properties.
Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 2:39 PM GMTWell, there's Blists Hill museum in Iron Bridge. Very near me. Replicating the Victorian experience.
Wow, thank you both very much, seems there's quite a few things out there.
Dolly, the little picture on that website looks lovely. I can't find anything on that stone age museum though but I'll have another look.
Chip, just Googled Blists Hill - looks awesome, absolutely perfect.
Thanks again everyone for your help.
Are these places open all year round then?
Quote: Moonstone @ November 26 2009, 3:37 PM GMTI can't find anything on that stone age museum though but I'll have another look.
You won't. They didn't have computers in the Stone Age.
Quote: Leevil @ November 26 2009, 3:38 PM GMTAre these places open all year round then?
I'm assuming they open for a few weeks here and there. I'm not in a hurry anyway, just as long as I know about them.
Quote: Chappers @ November 26 2009, 3:44 PM GMTYou won't. They didn't have computers in the Stone Age.
>_< 
Quote: Sammy @ November 25 2009, 8:43 PM GMTIt has to be seen to be believed. I'm going to have to have a look around for it, so I can get it word for word, but as far as I remember - for the 'how to speak to the disabled' bit, it said something like 'Come down to there level. Make sure you do not bring attention to their disability'. I found it really offensive
Why?
Quote: Moonstone @ November 25 2009, 10:09 PM GMTDoes anyone know if there are places in England where they replicate particular periods in history? I don't mean like theme parks, I mean kind of educational places where you just look around.
Like ... pretty much everywhere with the remotest modicum of history?
You should go to Dickens World. 
Quote: SlagA @ November 26 2009, 10:17 AM GMTThe whole of Wales replicates Britain as it was about 50 years ago.
(You still have coal mines? 
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Quote: EllieJP @ November 26 2009, 10:18 AM GMTBlackpool takes you back to the 80s.
19- or 18-?
Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 2:39 PM GMTWell, there's Blists Hill museum in Iron Bridge.
I endorse this.
Quote: Leevil @ November 26 2009, 3:38 PM GMTAre these places open all year round then?
Some. Most are the typical Spring to mid-Autumn season, as National Trust properties. Places like Blists Hill and similar 'living villages', are about 80% outdoors and mud though, so you wouldn't want to go there after late September even if they are open.
Quote: Aaron @ November 26 2009, 6:04 PM GMTLike ... pretty much everywhere with the remotest modicum of history?
You should go to Dickens World.
Yeah, basically anywhere that's like a town or village or whatever based on some point in the past.
Thanks for Dickens World, looks awesome, but I think it's a theme park 
Quote: Moonstone @ November 25 2009, 10:09 PM GMTDoes anyone know if there are places in England where they replicate particular periods in history? I don't mean like theme parks, I mean kind of educational places where you just look around.
West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/weststow/
There are a few places here
Quote: Loopey @ November 27 2009, 7:49 PM GMTWest Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/weststow/
There are a few places here
Thank you, Loopey! Again, looks really good. Blimey it's gonna take me years to get round all these places, lol - you're right, there's quite a few! I've got a nice little list now.