... here, because I feel that Britain is still one of the best countries when it comes to theme parks. This is a panoramio picture taken of a castle garden at Alton Towers, Alton, Staffordshire. This is a panoramio picture taken of Mutiny Bay at Alton Towers, Alton. The park has passed through many business hands over it’s time and it was purchased by the Tussauds Group in 1990 and that ...

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Hi Guys, this is another local Regimental Museum for me, being in the next county of Staffordshire. The Staffordshire Regiment Museum The museum has a replica WW1 trench outside. Here is a shot of that taken when I was last there with some WW1 re-enactor friends. Cheers, Ade. Attached Images Staffs Museum 001.jpg (141.1 KB) ...

... by now, a few months back a metal-detecting enthusiast hit the mother lode in Staffordshire. Instead of bottle caps and old nails, the urgent pinging of his detector signaled a buried cache of ... -wisdom-upon-its-head-turning as the breathless copy at the website for the newly-dubbed "Staffordshire Hoard" might suggest. Given my usual proclivities, it should come as no surprise that the ...

... to see some of the items from the Staffordshire Hoard on temporary display at the British Museum. Although I picked a time (just before closing) when the museum is usually fairly empty it ... Saxon hierograph have some kind of rejuvenating effect upon society? There is much discussion about where the Staffordshire Hoard will finally be housed. It would be a disaster if the finds should end up in a ...

... of experts, a reward that will be shared between the amateur metal detectorist who found it and the Staffordshire farmer in whose pasture it lay hidden for 1,300 years. Professor Norman Palmer, chair of ... , quality and beauty. It was hard to stop our imaginations running away with us." Museums in Staffordshire will now scramble to raise the money - £3.285m to be precise - which will be ...

:confused: Hi, I am trying to find out about the history of the village of Fradley, Staffordshire & would welcome any help please. I have several generations of Jones ancestors who were farmers in Fradley throughout the 1700's & 1800's & indeed into the 1900's too. Rye Croft Farm was the name of one of the family farms. Another of my Jones ancestors was the village ...

Medievalists.net provides a collection of articles on the recently publicized find of buried Anglo-Saxon gold and silver and enameled artifacts known as the Staffordshire Hoard, starting with How the Staffordshire Hoard was Discovered. From their collection of scholarly experts’ opinions on the signficance of this archaeological discovery: Leslie Webster, formerly Keeper at the British ...

Some of the most spectacular treasure finds made in Britain have gone on display at the British Museum, still caked with the clay of the Staffordshire field that hid them for 1,300 years. Fred Johnson, the farmer on whose land near Lichfield more than 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver were found in July last year, paid his first visit to London to see the pieces safely installed in the ...

Calling all Blackburn Rovers fans – a rare piece of club memorabilia is due to come under the hammer at Cuttlestones auction house in Penkridge, Staffordshire on Friday, 27th November. A real piece of Blackburn Rovers history, the item in question is a leather bound book presented to J. Eddleston Esq, Vice chairman of Blackburn Rovers,