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Author Topic: Museums  (Read 371 times)

bob48

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on: November 24, 2024, 05:44:21 AM
https://royalarmouries.org/leeds

This is a fantastic place, although its been several years since we last went there.

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Reply #1 on: November 24, 2024, 05:48:20 AM
https://www.ausarmour.com/

Another great place, although I have not been there :-)

Worth watching their YT channel as they do some amazing restoration projects, in some cases patching vehicles together from just piles of parts that they find from all over the world. They also fabricate some parts, and the skill and ingenuity used is incredible.

Quite a few of the vehicles are restored to working order.

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Reply #3 on: November 24, 2024, 05:51:26 AM
Bovington Tank museum.

https://tankmuseum.org/visit-us?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAuou6BhDhARIsAIfgrn5UirAlWU9Ci-d5gyuzTDMRpd_hGEg6ELz9TbyfkZsTSiHiVl0hRdAaAsNrEALw_wcB

Again, somewhere I have been to several times although not for many years. I think JD has been more recently though.

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

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