Museum of Lincolnshire Life
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life is well worth a visit.
Various Victorian shops, a laundry, a print shop, inside a typical Victorian house, steam engines, a WWI tank, heavy machinery.
Lincolnshire is an agricultural county, Lincoln was a centre of heavy machinery.
The reason for this apparent anomaly, wealthy Lincolnshire farmers were able to invest in heavy agricultural machinery and steam engines, this powered Lincoln as an industrial centre.
The WWI tank that changed trench warfare was designed and built in Lincoln. It was called a tank to fool German spies.
One small section, simulates in the trenches with mortar fire.
One of the sources of wealth, was sheep, the wool from the sheep.
Just inside the main gate, a Victorian postbox. I was surprised to find that it was still in use.
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life is a former army barracks.
Inside the entrance, maybe a former guardroom, a very unusual barrel vaulted ceiling, made of a pattern of terracotta tiles. The lady at the desk said in the event of explosion, to focus the blast downwards. I suspect the opposite, a big explosion, shatter the ceiling and direct the blast upwards where it would do no harm.
On leaving a little cafe. I suggest look to Copper Joe, in the guard house of what was once a military barracks in Winchester
