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Category: 2025 England

Posted on February 3, 2025February 3, 2025

The World of Tim Burton, Design Museum, London

I was back up to London today where I was headed to the Design Museum, somewhere I had not been previously. My first thoughts on arrival were that I didn’t think much of the design of the place itself, which seemed pretty ordinary, but there clearly had been quite a bit of design thought gone …

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Posted on February 1, 2025

23 & 24 Leinster Gardens, London

As I’ve said before I love London. It’s packed with interesting places, people, art and architecture and a great place to visit for a day but couldn’t live there. I’m happy to explore the usual haunts that the city is famous for but equally like to find places a little more unusual hence today’s visit …

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Posted on January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

Reading Museum, Reading, Berkshire

For a while now I have been trying to get round all the museums in the Reading area and I realised that I hadn’t actually been and done a proper viewing at Reading Museum itself. I corrected that today with a long wander around its galleries. Outside The museum is housed within the Reading Town …

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Posted on January 16, 2025January 16, 2025

The Murals of Central Reading

As I suggested in my last post on the murals of Bristol, those of Reading are a much more sober and corporate affair. In fact all three of the murals I am highlighting here have been commisioned by Reading Borough Council. Nobody is going to be painting their house with a night sky theme here. …

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Posted on January 15, 2025January 15, 2025

The Murals of Central Bristol

After a busy Christmas we decided to take a couple of days out for a break and headed to Bristol as it is easy to get to on the train from Reading. We had wanted to do a trail of some of the globes from The World Reimagined initiative as we’d seen in Reading but …

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Posted on January 2, 2025January 2, 2025

The World Reimagined Global Trail, Reading University

On a blustery but mild New Year’s Day we set off to Reading University to do a short art trail based around four globes from The World Reimagined initiative. This was a national art education project to explore the “Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on all of us.” 103 globes were created, and seven …

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