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Blackpool takes you back to the 80s.

London takes you to a bleak inhospitable future filled with alienation.

Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 10:41 AM GMT

London takes you to a bleak inhospitable future filled with alienation.

Yeah, good innit!

Quote: Moonstone @ November 25 2009, 10:09 PM GMT

Does 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 GMT

Does 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 GMT

Well, 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 GMT

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.

Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 2:39 PM GMT

Well, 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 GMT

I 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 GMT

Are 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 GMT

You won't. They didn't have computers in the Stone Age.

>_< :D

Quote: Sammy @ November 25 2009, 8:43 PM GMT

It 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 GMT

Does 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. Cool

Quote: SlagA @ November 26 2009, 10:17 AM GMT

The whole of Wales replicates Britain as it was about 50 years ago.

:D

(You still have coal mines? ;))

Quote: EllieJP @ November 26 2009, 10:18 AM GMT

Blackpool takes you back to the 80s.

19- or 18-?

Quote: chipolata @ November 26 2009, 2:39 PM GMT

Well, there's Blists Hill museum in Iron Bridge.

I endorse this.

Quote: Leevil @ November 26 2009, 3:38 PM GMT

Are 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 GMT

Like ... pretty much everywhere with the remotest modicum of history?

You should go to Dickens World. Cool

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 GMT

Does 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

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/LivingHistory.htm

Quote: Loopey @ November 27 2009, 7:49 PM GMT

West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village

http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/weststow/

There are a few places here

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/LivingHistory.htm

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.

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