Britains crappiest 'Days Out'.....

[boobydoo]

After the great success of the Autoshite Meet at Stondon (which obviously is a great place), I thought it might be an idea to have a thread highlighting the absolute shittiest, most pointless museums in Britain so that when fellow members plan their holidays in good old Blighty they can ...umm ...check 'em out, as it were!

 

In the Stondon thread, tontops mentioned 'Collectors World' in Norfolk which sounded completely and utterly rank, so I did further investigations today at work and found the exciting website, thus:

 

http://collectors-world.org/index.shtml

 

Unfortunately the museum is now closed for the winter so you can't rush up next week ....as much as you'd like to!

 

Particularly enticing is the 'Barbara Cartland World Of Wonder'.....

 

 

 

 

They also advise that you set aside at least two hours for the 'Magical Dickens Experience',

 

 

 

 

.but I honestly think I would be unable to contain my excitement at the thought of viewing their 'Personality' rooms which includes none other than a shrine to ......wait for it....'70s bit part comedy actress and ex-Alvin Stardust shag....LIZA GODDARD!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whatever next!?

The Betty Turpin 3-D Interactive Diarama?

 

 

So, if anyone knows of any equally shite places to visit...DO let us know!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, I forgot. This is a car forum......

 

....oooh! Yugo Sana!

[pogweasel]

I have driven past that 'Collectors World' place many many times en-route to various shitty bits of marshland that require measurement (omg! negative levels!!)

Never actually been in but I assume it to be a total grot-fest of mouldering old tat. Noteworthy by virtue of being run by someone called "Eric St John Foti", which is a mentalists name if every I have heard one.

 

Also in Norfolk is the incredibly bad LOUIS TUSSAUDS wax-work museum in Yarmouth. Think the waxworks in the real Tussauds are bad and ill-proportioned, the pikey seaside version is really something else. If it wasn't so laughably crap you would feel robbed.

[warren t claim]

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

 

The british lawnmower museum!

[michael t]

nooo warren you bet me to it

[Father Ted]

The Bakelite Museum in Somerset.

 

Boy was that shite.

The place is in an old windmill that is RIDDLED with woodworm.

[chaseracer]

http://www.shellmuseum.org.uk/

 

What is it about East Anglia for shit(e) "tourist attractions"...?

[Mr Lobster]

http://www.gnomemagic.co.uk/

[Guest]

http://www.caistercastle.co.uk/cms/inde ... &Itemid=57

[trigger]

I've never been here but i think this sounds like a great place for the next autoshite meet (Though it's too far for the Kadett) They even have a 1989 FSO Polonez Prima listed!

 

http://www.atwellwilson.org.uk/index.htm

[Mr Lobster]

^ that looks alright to me! Bit of a way though.

[pogweasel]

http://www.caistercastle.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=57

 

YES!

That is a right bobbins museum, I have been there twice!

Not a patch on Stondon, but it is staffed by some right mad old giffers who have clearly either got early stage dementia, have been at the sherry or know the square root of fuck all about old motors (likely a combo of all three) if the tripe they tell you in the 'tour' is anything to go by.

[fordpoplier]

Lawnmower museum? PPHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAOR

[Angrydicky]

Lawnmower museum? PPHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAOR

 

[Guest]

 

GR8 4 BEIN HIRST.

 

In other lives I would heartily recommend the Northwich Salt Museum. I was dragged there when I was 14. It turned to be yards from where I ended up attending 6th Form College.

[barrett]

This may just be a product of my damaged mind, but I vaguely remember going round (very quickly) a museum of eyeglasses in the grounds of a stately home when I was younger.....

 

Does anyone know the name of the museum in (probably) Sussex or Surrey that houses one of Malcom Campbell's Bluebird boats? It's also in the grounds of a very, very old stately home, and contained a large amount of tat wedged in a few nissan huts, with various rusty motors slowly disintergrating round the back.

[Justin Case]

http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/

 

Bit far for the Opel I'm afraid though, Trig

[M'coli]

That could be Brooklands...!

[michiel]

We stayed in Brighton in I think 1980 and visited a museum full of dioramas featuring stuffed squirrels/mice/rats (?). Can't remember where or what, but it was pretty shite. Went to Arundel to see the castle too, that made my holiday (I was 6).

[Cavcraft]

There's a 'Dads Army' museum somewhere in Norfolk which I couldn't wait to go to. Unfortunately it was a half arsed converted barn with Jones's van and a few pictures.

[Pete-M]

Wigan Pier

[CreepingJesus]

The diorama thing was mentioned in Fortean Times some years ago, at the time the collection was being dismantled due to the near collapse of the aging building. Haven't a clue what it was called, but it was among the last remnants of the old Victorian seaside oddity shows.

I always manage to take something from even the weirdest places; but one which has stuck with me since 1987 is Babbacombe Model Village. Now I wouldn't go as far as to say it was crap, but it did leave me wondering exactly what the point was. Once you've done the Godzilla joke, that's about it.

GR9 4 Lotus7 conventions?

[254575]

That could be Brooklands...!

 

please do brooklands next!

 

i think i could make the 500 meter journey !

[whitevanman]

Wigan Pier

 

I thought that closed in 2006, they certainly said it was closing when I visited in th February...........

[trigger]

I went to the pencil museum once, It was crap, there was a big pencil to look at and i came home with a long pencil which i never used as it was too big to write with.

[M'coli]

http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/

 

Bit far for the Opel I'm afraid though, Trig

I've never been although I have a good tale about it. 10 or so years ago I used to be involved in the junior arm of the Rotary Club, Rotaract. Each year, Rotary would take a group of disabled and disadvantaged youngsters (the "candidates") for a week at the Calvert Trust near Keswick, and us - the Rotaracters - would help out during the day, and get drunk in the evening. Where if the weather permitted they would have the candidates doing different activities that ordinary folk could do if they felt so inclined - walking in the hills, sailing, rock-climbing etc., but if the weather was shonky, they would be taken places like the pencil museum.

 

This was fine until the year they had a candidate who was a pen kleptomaniac and they went to the pencil museum...eventually they had to find a pen in the back office or some other place just to keep the peace!!!

[Angrydicky]

I went to the pencil museum once, It was crap, there was a big pencil to look at and i came home with a long pencil which i never used as it was too big to write with.

 

 

LOL, that sounds mega shite.

[whitevanman]

this was a perost...............idiot that I am

[Quintus]

A couple of very specific museums.

 

http://www.fan-museum.org/

http://www.hatworks.org.uk/default.asp

[michiel]

This was the stuffed animal nutter:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Potter

 

Also in Arundel at the time.

[M'coli]

A couple of very specific museums.

 

http://www.fan-museum.org/

What a crock of shit. I was looking forward to a museum dedicated to the development of multi-blade axial and centrifugal, ducted and non-ducted fans.

 

I am mightily disappointed!