days out of London

Days Out: Getting Anglo-Saxon at Sutton Hoo

22/11/2025 donbrown 0

To Suffolk! the county about 80 miles NE of the metropolis, birthplace of John Constable, Benjamin Britten and George Orwell. Full of flat lands, fat […]

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Days Out: Rochester – the Castle and Cathedral

21/11/2025 donbrown 0

To Kent! on the coldest day of the year as an icy blast off the River Medway cuts through five layers of clothing and my […]

A Journey to the Source of the Thames

18/05/2025 donbrown 0

Viewed purely on the facts and figures, the Thames is not one of the great rivers of the world. At around 215 miles (345km) long […]

Days Out: The Wonderful Dover Castle

24/10/2024 donbrown 0

Hop on the fast train from St Pancras and you can be in Dover in a little over an hour. Grab a cab from the […]

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Days Out: The D Day Story and the Overlord Embroidery

09/06/2024 donbrown 0

Portsmouth’s D Day Story is a small museum on the seafront a literal stone’s throw from the Tudor castle at Southsea (where Henry VIII watched […]

Days Out – Bletchley Park, Home of the WW2 Codebreakers

26/01/2024 donbrown 0

Less than 40 minutes on the fast service from Euston gets you to Bletchley (now part of Milton Keynes). It is a journey that would […]

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Most secret: the story of the Bletchley Park codebreakers (video of online talk)

30/11/2023 donbrown 0

Discover the secrets of Bletchley Park’s codebreakers & the cracking of Enigma in this online talk. All ticket money goes to The Brain Tumour Charity […]

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Video: Square Stories – favourite squares in London, Oxford and Bath

09/08/2021 donbrown 0

Another video chat with the gang from UKToursOnline. This time we get competitive looking at “squares” – there are the London garden squares including Russell […]