Pompey Dockyard

Thanks A. Definitely on the "To visit" list.

 

Talk about having a senior moment

I was just about to post my only Pompey joke on this thread when I happened to scroll back and saw that I had already told it on Comment #13 !

I still think it's funny.

Ron

 

Hello, sailor!

I hope it lives up to the hype - I've got a couple of days down here! The better half has agreed to it on the basis that I will move more quickly through Naval museums than military ones. Hmmm...

It's a bright day so will probably hit the ships today and keep the museums in reserve in case it turns. Pity that the Mary Rose is on a shutdown, but they still do the yearly tickets.

 

Napoleonic dazzle?

Done that. Just spent an hour not looking at the Mary Rose, now trying to knock off M33 in the last hour. Then argue about tomorrow's itinerary...

 

Facebook has reminded me that it's Trafalgar Day again. After a motorcycle club trip there, the dockyard publicity people sent photos to lots of local papers. It was quite a shock to find a photo on the front page in the newsagents.

 

Not as big a shock as page 3, I'll bet...

Gosh, was our trip 5 years ago? We actually went back on the last weekend of the ticket validity and the Royal Marines' Museum. after brunch in Southsea Castle, we hit the now-open Mary Rose museum. Spent about 4.5 hours threading my way through there, and I was skimming a lot in the later stages as the old brain had been overloaded. We actually caught 'visually-impaired' morning, i.e. they have the room lights on. It is very gallery-like but with three floors of stuff plus the ship you won't feel shortchanged, unlike, say, the RN Museum which has so much to cover it hasn't got a chance to be anything other than odd exhibits with overdone social commentary.

The RM Museum was a bit more traditional but again suffered from the scope and scale of their doings. Managed to get a few of the RM Historical Society books, at least one of which appeared to be the last copy. The next week it closed and went into storage with the intention of being relocated into the dockyard. Hopefully they will do it justice .

On the way home, we did The Keep in Dorchester. That's well worth a visit.

Currently pondering another visit to go and see LCT 7074 then, maybe, some of the other regimental museums down that way.

 

I enjoyed the Keep too. And you know the Tank Museum is in between . Have you been to the submarine museum? Even just seeing the Alliance is well worth it.