I always set off with a specific destination in mind but one of the things I like most about this Brown Sign Bagging malarky is coming across a sign for something I didn’t even know existed that then turns out to be something quite marvellous. Past examples include the Clava Cairns and the Aberlemno Stones, …
A visit to a museum dedicated to the man who was arguably the biggest celebrity of the Victorian era is such a no brainer I can’t believe I haven’t been before. But I haven’t, so with Annie’s agreement, off we pop to the Charles Dickens Museum. Born in Portsmouth in 1812 (there is a Charles …
The Rozelle Estate, just a short drive along Monument Road from Burns Cottage, looks worth a visit; according to the leaflet I picked up it contains not just Rozelle House Museum and Galleries (RHMG), but also the Maclauren Art Gallery and extensive grounds and gardens with various points of interest. However, today I am only …
The address of the Library of Innerpeffray is given above but I could just as equally have put “the middle of nowhere”, for that appears to be precisely where this historically significant and ridiculously well-hidden gem is located. Although, if I’m going to bandy around words like “precisely” I should come clean and correctly place …
I am on holiday for the next few weeks. Brown Sign Blogging will be back mid-September with the conclusion to my Jersey journey.
At first light on the morning of 7 September 1838, lighthouse keeper William Darling set out with his crew from his post on Longstone Island in the Outer Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland. He was bound for Big Harcar, another of the Farnes, less than a kilometre away. What makes this short journey …
I am on holiday for the next couple of weeks, but new brown signs will be bagged at the end of July.
