Dear Famous Five,
If you want a great day out then you ought to come to the STEAM Museum in Swindon. Because this is what I saw when here today on holiday:
A gift shop, a fire engine, giant locomotive wheels, name plates and numbers, signals, holiday haunts posters, maps, lamps, shovels, buckets, navvies, ropes, notice boards, texts and pictures and photos and videos, the recreation of the railway works in picture and print and mannequin, the work of office clerks,
clocks, varnished tables, documents, filing cabinets, type writers, the drawing office, the factory stores, the factory hooter, a fire appliance, the Roll of Honour, the foundry, the medical fund, bicycles, trolleys, barrows, ingots, iron machines, pattern makers, treadles, belts, ladders, boxes, the carriage shop,
blacksmiths, cabinet makers, polishers, upholsterers, painters, signwriters, the sewing shop, tool boxes, the machine shop, lathes, drills, saws, gears, accidents, the boiler shop, war, the role of women, the noise, DANGER MEN WORKING OVERHEAD, The Cheltenham Flyer, 120 tons, walking beneath 4073 Caerphilly Castle, Box Tunnel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, why Swindon was chosen by Brunel, geology, toll boards, maps, seals, tokens, broad gauge and ordinary gauge, wagons, locomotives, carriages, platforms, a signal box, a brake van, boxes and suitcases, a milk churn, a tank engine, a lorry, a horse drawn van, shunting, trucks, a goods yard, carters, a tractor, a trailer, a station,
The Bristolian, 6000 King George V, 82c, GWR platform seats, inter-war refreshments, City of Truro 3717, machines for platform tickets, Queen Victoria’s carriage, a buffet car, 2818 freight locomotive, the Cornish Riviera, GWR The Holiday Line, Alfred Williams ‘The Hammerman Poet’, an air raid shelter, Trip Week, GWR ships and steamers, slot machines, the seaside pier, ‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’, GWR buses, GWR camping carriages …
Dear Famous Five,
I see your advertisements taking you here, there and everywhere on today’s GWR – but why not make your next trip to Swindon to the STEAM Museum? You’d absolutely love it. Then take a walk through the railway village and have a picnic in the old railway park with a view of the water tower and, of course, lashings of ginger beer!
Wish you were here,
‘Ann Thusiast’