I’ve
been wanting to go to one of the big libraries to look at an atlas of Parish Boundaries, so after a
leisurely start, and getting all the washing and drying done , we had a quick
bite of lunch and went out.
At
the library I snapped a few pictures of the appropriate pages and I was done
Next
stop British Museum to see and exhibition called Pompeii and Herculaneum.On
the way we walked past parts of the old
Roman City wall
By the
time we got to the museum it had turned into a lovely summer day so we thought
that there might not be too much of a crowd to see the exhibition. We were wrong.
With an hour or so before out timed entry we had a walk around and look at some
of the other exhibits.
The
museum is an amazing place. I love the way they have roofed the Great Court. At
one stage it must have been open to the elements. Now though there is an exhibition
space in the centre.
A few
years ago we went a similar exhibition that was on at Te Papa, the Wellington
museum. We were especially moved by the body casts if a couple of the victims
and one of a dog. Poor creature it had no hope of escape because it was chained
up.
Unfortunately
we found this current exhibition a bit of a let down . OK there were a lot of
exhibits, and the though the commentary said that they were trying to parallel the
lives of the inhabitants of the doomed cities and our modern lives there didn’t
seem to be much humanity about it.
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