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3 August 2005 - visit to Weald and Downland
Open Air Museum
The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum is at
Singleton, near Chichester in Sussex. Further information
see their website. Our visit
proved to be a source of great interest to Bakary.
He particularly enjoyed visiting the mill, even
though it was not grinding flour during our visit (undergoing some
maintenance) and seeing many of the 'hands-on' exhibits that were
being enthusiastically put through their paces by the many children
who were there on that day. The mechanical wood turning
and the blacksmith's shop caught his eye, particularly
when we told him that the latter had been brought to Singleton from
Southwater! Variations on some of the other things, like the pit-saw
and the charcoal burner's kiln and hut are still used in
The Gambia at the present time.
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Bakary in the mill |
The grindstone of the
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craftsman using a pole
lathe |
blacksmith's shop |
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charcoal burner's hut |
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<< saw pit |
On our way home Bakary discovered another English traditional
delight - a cream tea! Definitely to be repeated, he decided, so we
have had to add scones and clotted cream to our weekend shopping...
8 August 2005 - visit to the Globe Theatre
London
The trip to the Globe Theatre in London (see
their website), was the result of Bakary telling us about studying Shakespeare
at school in The Gambia. He had studied Macbeth as his set book, but
we could not find a production of that play anywhere locally, nor in
London. So we settled for The Globe, and went to see Pericles,
Prince of Tyre, (further
information) which had been recommended to us as a good show. We
were not disappointed and Bakary was really thrilled by his
Shakespearean evening - the production was wonderfully alive and
was a great visual experience. It was a stroke of
good fortune that one of the lead performances of the show, Gower
the narrator, was played by a charismatic West African, Patrice Naiambana. Photos are still in Bakary's camera, but we hope to
publish them in due course.
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