Saturday, May 19, 2007
14th May Tunbridge Wells Part 3. Museum and art.
We called in to Tunbridge Wells Museum to escape the rain.
We enjoyed our visit - and, as ever, loved the old toys most of all.
We enjoyed our visit - and, as ever, loved the old toys most of all.
This is a post card of the Noah's Ark.
Bill's eyes were drawn to items being studied by museum people at the desk - more old animals.
I think he would have loved to be sorting them out.
Tunbridge Ware is beautiful. Here is a description from Wikipedia.
Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different colored woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion.
There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the museum in Tunbridge Wells.
There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the museum in Tunbridge Wells.
We were very impressed with the collection.
The box in the picture has a picture of The Pantiles on it.
The art gallery was being used to display the work of pre school children and it looked lovely.
