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Thursday 30 May 1998
After our day in Bibury and climbing up never-ending hills
looking for Barrows, Fran and I spent the first of two nights at
Bourton-on-the-Water.
This is early morning after a wonderful breakfast in the conservatory of the hotel - I
had to wear sunglasses to breakfast, it was extremely nice!!! |
| We'll have a look at the hotel in a later page, but now it was time for a
look around the village. The river babbles under several low distinctive bridges, there is
plenty of greenery and lots of colour in the trees and flowers.
The buildings are all of the Cotswold mould - the area has inspired many model cottages.
In fact, Fran has a collection of them, taking up valuable space that could be usefully
occupied by such things as pinballs, jukeboxes, guitars or 78s! |
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The toy and model shop was just opening and we went in for a mooch round.
I've been trying to collect models of all the cars I've had, but finding recent models (unless
one happens to own a Porsche or Ferrari) is not easy at all.
Strange really, I always remember as a boy wanting models of my Dad's car to play with.
However I did find a model MkIII Ford Cortina even though mine was a slightly earlier version
with different shaped headlights. I bought it and will undertake the sacrilege (to serious
model collectors) of painting it in the colours of my own car of several years ago. |
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At one end of the village we paused to watch the river for a while and looked round the yard of the Motor Museum. |
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The museum cat was weighing itself on the scales whilst a familiar yellow car announced his presence. My niece Heather, loves the childrens' TV programme "Brum" about the little car with a mind of its own that sneaks out of this very museum and has adventures in the big city.
That settled it! We went in! |
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The museum is absolutely crammed full of motor cars, ancient caravans,
model cars both large and small, motoring memorabilia, posters, signposts, petrol pumps,
dolls prams, motorbikes...
Well... let's just say that the cost of entry was amzingly low and the value for money
amazingly high. If you ever visit Bourton-on-the-Water you must visit the museum. |
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It wouldn't be fair to spoil it by showing the exhibits. However, I'll make one exception and include a pic of Brum for the
children, if any should visit this page. Brum really does live at the museum and was
having a rest after all his TV adventures!
The admission price to the Motor Museum also included admission to a countryside museum
in the adjoining rooms. Again it would be unfair to show the exhibits but here are a
couple of photos to give you an incentive to visit yourselves. |
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