Last weekend, Sunday 16th of August, my wife and I took some time out shopping in York, I also managed to persuade her that we could re-visit the Railway Museum! Not that I am a latent train spotter, or anything like that, but I like to keep abreast of any new additions or discover things I had previously overlooked. Of course now that the government has made such visits free the attendance figures are I’m sure much greater, so we braved the crowds swelling the various halls. However I think a fee would not be amiss, it might jolt them back into the real world, where you have to pay for your amusement. Yes I accept that there is always a case for allowing disadvantaged people to partake of such attractions at a discount, but really everything needs to have a value or they become abused. Just a token charge would go some way to making the place a commercial activity. Anyhow I digress this post was not a moan about the government, although that would be easy, but many others are setting it out chapter and verse on this appalling administration, this time next year we will be moaning about the other lot! You know the so-called, “Conservatives”. Will they do any better, not a chance!
So moving on, I spotted, in the Railway Museum that is, a model of a canal boat from around the late eighteenth century, which figured quite nicely with the article I added to the history site a few weeks back. Below is a picture of the model, of course had the canal ever been built and had it weathered the passage of two hundred years, we could that very weekend have taken the canal route through to Tadcaster where it would have joined the River Wharfe. From Tadcaster we could have travelled by horse and coach to York arriving much too late in the day to visit any shops! So you see we are going backwards, who wants to go shopping!
The article about the canal project is here.