Activity Quest

Riding the Mail Rail Under London

Bex heads to the Postal Museum in Clerkenwell, and then underneath it. Mail Rail is a tiny railway built to carry post across London, running in tunnels below the streets since the 1920s, and you get to ride through the original tunnels on a train that…

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Riding the Mail Rail Under London

Bex heads to the Postal Museum in Clerkenwell, and then underneath it. Mail Rail is a tiny railway built to carry post across London, running in tunnels below the streets since the 1920s, and you get to ride through the original tunnels on a train that…

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Sweet Wrappers and Cereal Boxes at the Museum of Brands

Adam is in Notting Hill this week, at a museum made almost entirely of the things most people throw away. The Museum of Brands has kept the packaging: cereal boxes, sweet wrappers, toys, comics and adverts going back to the Victorians…The heart of it…

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Sweet Wrappers and Cereal Boxes at the Museum of Brands

Adam is in Notting Hill this week, at a museum made almost entirely of the things most people throw away. The Museum of Brands has kept the packaging: cereal boxes, sweet wrappers, toys, comics and adverts going back to the Victorians…The heart of it…

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A Thousand Years of History at Oxford Castle and Prison

Adam visits Oxford Castle and Prison to step back in time and explore the city’s past.There has been something standing on this spot for a thousand years, and a costumed guide walks you through the lot, from Viking raids and the Norman conquest to the …

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A Thousand Years of History at Oxford Castle and Prison

Adam visits Oxford Castle and Prison to step back in time and explore the city’s past.There has been something standing on this spot for a thousand years, and a costumed guide walks you through the lot, from Viking raids and the Norman conquest to the …

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The Curious Tale of the Horniman’s Walrus

Adam is off to Forest Hill in south London for the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the curious tale of a very overstuffed walrus…The walrus arrived in London in Victorian times, and the story goes that the taxidermist who prepared it had never seen …

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The Curious Tale of the Horniman’s Walrus

Adam is off to Forest Hill in south London for the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the curious tale of a very overstuffed walrus…The walrus arrived in London in Victorian times, and the story goes that the taxidermist who prepared it had never seen …

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Exploring the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

This week Adam is wandering around the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, finding out what is on offer for visitors of every age.The Ashmolean opened its doors in 1683, which makes it the first public museum in Britain, and what is inside now covers half a mi…

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Exploring the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

This week Adam is wandering around the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, finding out what is on offer for visitors of every age.The Ashmolean opened its doors in 1683, which makes it the first public museum in Britain, and what is inside now covers half a mi…

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