Things to see and do - the whole database!
Bratch Pumping Station www.thebratch.org
Wombourne WV5 8DW England
Bratch Pumping Station in Wombourne, Staffordshire is one of 50 steam pumping stations in England. It was built in 1895 and the two vertical triple expansion steam engines are housed in a Gothic style pumphouse which was built around the engine. Bratch locks on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal are nearby.
Last updated: 2010-08-21
Square Sail Shipyard www.square-sail.com/...
Charletown Harbour, St Austell PL25 3NJ England
A fleet of square rigged sailing ships and the harbour facilities to maintain them.
Last updated: 2010-05-22
Rushden Historical Transport Society www.rhts.co.uk/...
Rushden NN10 OAW England
Rushden Transport Museum is situated at the old Midland Railway Station which once formed part of the Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers branch line. It is now home to the Rushden Historical Transport Society and includes a variety of railway rolling stock and road transport vehicles. The station also houses the CAMRA award winning club with a choice of real ales.
Last updated: 2010-05-22
Chocolatería San Ginés en.wikipedia.org/...
Madrid Spain
Tiled cafe specialising in 'chocolate con churros', a cup of dark chocolate with long sticks of light, crisp doughnut-like material to dip in them. Open 24 hours per day (May 2010).
Last updated: 2010-05-18
Kempton Great Engines www.kemptonsteam.org/...
Kempton TW13 6XH England
The world's largest fully operational inverted vertical triple expansion steam engine dating from 1926-1929.
Last updated: 2010-05-14
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk
Lynton/Lynmouth EX35 6EQ England
Victorian water powered funicular railway established in 1888.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Scarborough South Cliff Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2HD England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1875.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Scarborough Central Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2ER England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1881.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Trencherfield Mill Steam Engine www.wlct.org/...
Wigan WN1 1BA England
The steam engine was installed at Trencherfield Mill in 1907 and is thought to be the world's largest original working mill steam engine. It has four-cylinders, a 70 tonne flywheel and produces 2,500 hp. Until the Mill's closure in the late 1960s it enabled power to be sent throughout the five floors of the mill to power thousands of cotton spinning machines.
Last updated: 2010-01-10
Dartmoor Railway www.dartmoor-railway.co.uk/...
Okehampton EX20 1EJ England
The Dartmoor Railway in Devon was part of the Southern Railway main line from London Waterloo to Plymouth and North Cornwall. It is 15.5 mile long and runs across the northern edge of Dartmoor between Meldon Quarry in the West and Coleford Junction near Yeoford, in the East. It is unusual in that freight and certain National Rail services also run to Meldon Quarry and its main station at Okehampton.
Last updated: 2009-10-11
The Blue Anchor Inn www.spingoales.com/...
Helston TR13 8EL England
The Blue Anchor goes back to the 15th century and still brews its own 'Spingo' ales on the premises. The pub consists of various rooms, a skittle alley and the brewery and its character has been carefully retained.
Last updated: 2009-10-09
Saltburn Inclined Tramway www.saltburnclifflift.co.uk/...
Saltburn TS12 1HQ England
Opened on 28 June 1884 to transport people over the 120 feet drop from the town to the beach. The track is 207 feet long with a guage of 4' 2.5". The carriages carry 10 people and are powered by water balance. It is the oldest surviving water balanced cliff lift in the country and the second oldest surviving in the world.
Last updated: 2010-03-13
Brussels Tram Museum www.trammuseumbrussels.be/...
Brussels Belgium
Avenue de Tervuren 364 B 1150 Brussels (WOLUWE-SAINT-PIERRE)
Last updated: 2009-07-19
The Barge Association www.barges.org/...
The Barge Association is for anyone who is interested in barges or barging or owns a barge. Their aims include bringing together people interested in barges and barging and representing the interests of barge owners.
Last updated: 2009-05-22
Sunderland Maritime Heritage www.sunderlandmaritimeheritage.org.uk/...
Sunderland SR1 2BB England
Sunderland Maritime Heritage exists to preserve artifacts, documents, pictures and the skills of the shipyard workers that contributed to shipbuilding in Sunderland from 1346 until 1988 when the last shipyard closed.
Last updated: 2009-04-17
Chimneypot preservation and protection society www.chimneypotpreservationsociety.co.uk
England
The Chimney Pot Preservation and Protection Society exists to encourage people to value their chimney pots, illuminate the visual value the chimney pots add to the architecture of buildings, provide a forum for information regarding the preservation and renovation of chimney pots and to share knowledge such as where to find museums, photographs etc.
Last updated: 2009-04-15
Wilton Windmill www.wiltonwindmill.co.uk/...
Wilton, Wiltshire England
Wilton Windmill stands high above the small village of Wilton, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, on a site that provides magnificent views of the surrounding hills. The mill is the only working windmill in Wessex and was originally built in 1821 after the new Kennet and Avon canal had been built. This canal was built over and through the site of some local watermills and the pumps providing the water for the canal also lowered the river levels so that the remaining watermills were no long viable.
Last updated: 2009-02-12
Palmerston Forts Society www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/...
The Palmerston Forts Society is an educational charity dedicated to the study and preservation of Victorian fortification and associated artillery, in the United Kingdom and worldwide.
Last updated: 2008-06-29
Foxton Inclined Plane www.fipt.org.uk
Foxton LE16 7RA England
The Foxton Inclined Plane was situated on what is now the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal. The lift was opened in 1900 to provide working narrow boats with a faster way of climbing the 75ft hill than using the existing 10 locks. The inclined plane was closed in 1911 and traffic returned to the locks. The Foxton Inclined Plane Trust was formed i n1980 and is working towards the restoration of the inclined plane.
Last updated: 2008-05-17
British Lawnmower Museum www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/...
Southport PR8 5AJ England
A collection of over 200 vintage lawnmowers and an archive of information about lawnmowers. The Museum is also one of the World's leading authorities on vintage lawnmowers and can supply lawnmower parts.
Last updated: 2008-05-04
Paddle Steamer Preservation Society www.psps.freeserve.co.uk/...
The Paddle Steamer Preservation Society is Britain's longest established and largest steamship preservation group and operates Britain's only two working paddle steamers. It was founded in 1959 and has sailed its ships since 1975.
Last updated: 2008-05-04
Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle www.pskc.freeserve.co.uk/...
Chatham, Kent ME4 4TQ England
Kingswear Castle is a coal-fired paddle steamer which was built in 1924 and cruised until the 1960s on the River Dart with her sister ships Totnes Castle.
Last updated: 2008-05-04
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct en.wikipedia.org/...
England
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was completed in 1805 to carry the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee. It is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain.
Last updated: 2008-04-22
Walkley Clogs www.clogs.co.uk
Mytholmroyd HX7 5LR England
Walkley Clogs is Britain's last factory to make Clogs from start to finish in the traditional British style using a leather upper and wooden sole.
Last updated: 2008-04-22
Hollinwood Canal Society www.hollinwoodcanal.co.uk/...
Manchester England
The Hollinwood Canal Society aims to see the restoration of the canals within Daisy Nook Country Park, the re-connection of Daisy Nook with the Ashton Canal and the creation of a new canal link through to the Rochdale Canal.
Last updated: 2008-04-14
Wooden Canal Boat Society www.wcbs.org.uk/...
Manchester England
The Wooden Canal Boat Society is a charity dedicated to saving, restoring and using on community projects some of the old wooden working boats of Britain's canal network. The boats are kept at Portland basin museum.
Last updated: 2008-04-14
Portland Basin Museum www.tameside.gov.uk/...
Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0QA England
The Portland Basin Museum is housed within the restored nineteenth century Ashton Canal Warehouse. The museum includes a 1920s street to allow you to find out how people used to live in Tameside.
Last updated: 2008-04-14
Railway Vehicle Preservations Ltd www.geocities.com/...
Rothley LE7 7LD England
Railway Vehicle Preservations Ltd started life in 1968 and is now a registered charity. It exists to preserve historic items of railway rolling stock and is currently based on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. The group have assembled a collection of railway vehicles from the London and North Eastern Railway and have a special interest in items relating to Travelling Post Office (TPO) trains.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) www.camra.org.uk/...
England
CAMRA is an independent organisation that campaigns for real ale, real pubs and consumer rights and promotes good-quality real ale and pubs.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Narrow Boat Trust www.narrowboattrust.org.uk/...
England
The Narrow Boat Trust is a Charity, which exists "To preserve and restore narrow boats and canal craft of all descriptions, exhibit the same for the benefit of the public and where possible to promote the use of such boats for commercial canal carrying".
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Wessex Vehicle Preservation Club (WVPC) wvpc.org.uk
England
The Wessex Vehicle Preservation Club (WVPC) is one of the largest multi-make motor clubs in the south of England including cars and motorbikes.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
National Brewery Centre www.nationalbrewerycentre.co.uk
Burton-on-Trent DE14 1NG England
Formerly the Bass Museum. Includes an explanation and artifacts of brewing using the unique Burton Union System, steam engines, vans and buses. The museum has a model of Burton-on-Trent in 1921 and includes a model railway. Worthington White Shield is brewed on site and can be sampled draught in the Brewery Tap.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Coopers Tavern
Burton-on-Trent DE14 1EG England
This friendly and unusual pub was originally the bottle store of the Bass Brewery. It is now a Free House serving an interesting range of beers (of course including Bass) and cider by hand pump and direct from the casks stored in the small tap room with its tiny bar.
Last updated: 2008-02-03
The Musical Museum www.musicalmuseum.co.uk
Brentford TW8 0DU England
The Musical Museum in Brentford contains a collection of automatic instruments including clockwork musical boxes, a self playing Wurlitzer, reproducing pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players.
Last updated: 2008-02-03
Marble Arch www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Manchester M4 4HY England
Victorian pub with historic tiling and mosaic which was rediscovered behind boarding in the 1990's. The pub is also home to the organic Marble Brewery.
Last updated: 2007-12-30
The Hythe
Maldon CM9 5HN England
The Hythe is situated at the head of the River Blackwater estuary and is home to a collection of historic vessels including Thames sailing barges. There are also two pubs at the Hythe and up the hill in Maldon are additional pubs and two breweries.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Red-RF.com www.red-rf.com
Greater London England
A web site dedicated to London Transport's red RF buses. Keep an eye on their site for bus running days.
Last updated: 2007-11-20
Cox's Mill
Addlestone KT15 2JX England
Cox's Mill is located just south of Weybridge on the River Wey Navigation. It is an old flour mill which used to be served by boats from London. Even though it is now converted to flats it is still a fine building in a lovely location next to Cox's Lock and the old mill pond.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Crossness Pumping Station www.crossness.org.uk/...
Abbey Wood, London SE2 9AQ England
The Beam Engine House of the Crossness Pumping Station is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building and contains the four original pumping engines.
Last updated: 2007-11-11
John Betjeman www.johnbetjeman.com
England
Not a place but a person. John Betjeman loved 'draught' things including architecture, railways and canals and brought them to the attention of the public. John Betjeman will not only be remembered for his poetry but also for his love of, and fight to preserve, the 'draught' things in England.
Last updated: 2007-11-11
Volk's Electric Railway www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk
Brighton England
The Volk's Electric Railway runs along the beach at Brighton. Opened in 1883 it is now the oldest remaining operating electric railway in the world.
Last updated: 2007-11-10
Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum www.ts.camcom.it/...
Trieste Italy
The Railway Museum of Trieste Campo Marzio is situated in the former passenger terminal of the Trieste Campo Marzio station and includes a museum and collection of steam, diesel and electric locos plus trams.
Last updated: 2007-11-07
Trieste - Villa Opicina tram line www.tramdeopcina.it/...
Trieste Italy
The tramway runs up from Piazza Oberdan in Trieste city centre along Scorcola hill to the town of Opicina on the plateau. It is an electric line with an unusual cable section with 'bankers' to help the trams up the steep hill.
Last updated: 2007-11-07
Air Atlantique Classic Flight/ClassicFlight.com www.airatlantique.co.uk
Coventry Airport CV8 3AZ England
Operator of a collection of classic aircraft including ANSON, AUSTER, CANBERRA, CHIPMUNK, DC3 DAKOTA, DC6, DOVE/DEVON, HUNTER, METEOR, PEMBROKE, PRENTICE, PROCTOR, RAPIDE, SHACKLETON, TIGER MOTH, TWIN PIONEER, VAMPIRE and VENOM.
Last updated: 2007-11-05
Elblag Canal and inclined planes en.wikipedia.org/...
Between Elblag and Ostroda Poland
The Elblag Canal uses an ingenious system of inclined planes to drag boats between its different levels.
Last updated: 2007-10-24
Wieliczka Salt Works Museum www.muzeum.wieliczka.pl/...
Cracow Poland
One of the biggest mining museums in Europe. It is situated in the original underground excavations of the 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine. Things to see include the amazing carvings made in salt by the workers.
Last updated: 2007-10-24
Hat Works www.hatworks.org.uk
Stockport SK3 0EU England
Hat Works is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to the hatting industry, hats and headwear.
Last updated: 2007-10-22
Astley Green Colliery Museum www.agcm.org.uk
Astley Green M29 7JB England
Astley Green Colliery Museum is situated next to the Bridgewater Canal and is Lancashire's only remaining colliery. The museum includes the largest collection of colliery locomotives in the United Kingdom, the largest steam winding engine ever used in the Lancashire Coalfield plus the headgear and capstan engine.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
CAMRA National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors www.heritagepubs.org.uk
UK
CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors lists pub interiors that have remained much as they had been since before the Second World War. Their listing will hopefully ensure they are preserved for future generations. Some pubs from the inventory have their own listings on this site.
Last updated: 2007-10-21
National Register of Historic Vessels www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk
UK
National Historic Ships is a Non Departmental Public Body advising the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on national historic ship preservation and funding priorities. It also advises the Heritage Lottery Fund and other public funding bodies on preservation priorities and individual applications. It also acts as a focus for advice on aspects of the preservation of historic vessels and maintains the National Register of Historic Vessels.
Last updated: 2007-10-14
Narrow Boat by L T C Rolt www.amazon.co.uk/...
The classic canal book written in 1939 gives an interesting insight into the canals, towns, way of life and thoughts of the time. Many of Rolt's concerns are still valid today, it seems we don't learn! A must.
Last updated: 2007-10-13
Narrow boat President www.nb-president.org.uk
Dudley DY1 4SQ England
Narrow boat President is an ex Fellows Morton Clayton steam narrow boat, and is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum at Dudley.
Last updated: 2007-10-13
Hook Norton Brewery www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/...
Hook Norton OX15 5NY England
Many of the Hook Norton Brewery's processes are still driven by a 25hp steam engine which was installed in 1899.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Square & Compasses www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Worth Matravers BH19 3LF England
This ancient Purbeck pub has flagstone floors, panelling, benches round the walls, serving hatches and splendid views of medieval field patterns and the sea beyond. Include in CAMRA'a National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Berney Arms www.berneyarms.co.uk
Berney Arms, Great Yarmouth NR30 1SB England
Berney Arms is one of the remotest stations in England and has a very infrequent service. It is surrounded by the Norfolk Broads and has a windmill and a pub a pleasant walk away next to the river.
Last updated: 2008-05-17
Three Horseshoes www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
YO51 9LF England
Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Briton's Protection www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Manchester M1 5LE England
Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Peveril of the Peak www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Manchester M1 5JQ England
Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Black Friar www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Blackfriars, London EC4V 4EG England
Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Kenfig National Nature Reserve www.bridgend.gov.uk/...
Pyle CF33 4PT Wales
Glamorgan’s largest natural lake, Kenfig Pool, views from Sker beach across Swansea Bay to the Gower. It is one of the finest Wildlife habitats in Wales and one of the last remnants of a huge dune system that once stretched along the coast of Southern Wales.
Last updated: 2007-10-08
London Transport Museum www.ltmuseum.co.uk
Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BB England
Including displays of buses, trains and trams
Last updated: 2007-10-21
Thursford Collection www.thursford.com
Thursford NR21 0AS England
The Thursford Collection includes mechanical organs, traction engines, fairground carousels and a Wurlitzer cinema organ.
Last updated: 2007-10-14
Crich Tramway Village www.tramway.co.uk
Crich, near Matlock DE4 5DP England
Period village that is also home to the National Tramway Museum
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music www.mechanicalmusic.co.uk
Northleach GL54 3ET England
The museum houses a variety of self playing instruments and automata that might have been found in the home before regular broadcasting started in 1924, presented as a live entertainment.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Brooklands Museum www.brooklandsmuseum.com
Weybridge KT13 0QN England
Museum of British motorsport and aviation including a Concord
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Trolleybus Museum www.sandtoft.org.uk
Sandtoft, Doncaster DN8 5SX England
The Trolleybus Museum houses the world's largest collection of historic trolley buses
Last updated: 2007-10-07
East Anglia Transport Museum www.eatm.org.uk
Carlton Colville NR33 8BL England
View and ride on all three principal forms of public transport from the earlier part of the 20th century trams, trolleybuses and railway.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Amberley Working Museum www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Amberley BN18 9LT England
Amberley Working Museum is an open-air museum dedicated to the industrial heritage of south-east England. Exhibits range from transport-based collections, such as the Southdown bus collection & the village garage, to industry-based collections such as the Print Workshop & Wheelwrights'.
Last updated: 2007-10-25
St Albans Organ Museum/Theatre www.stalbansorganmuseum.org.uk
St Albans AL1 5PE England
Theatre organs and mechanical (self-playing) musical instruments
Last updated: 2007-10-07
BBC Restoration www.bbc.co.uk/...
UK
A TV program and web site relating to the restoration of many buildings in need of care.
Last updated: 2007-10-06
IBSE (Interest Group for the Study of Tram and Railway Routes) www.ibse.de/...
Germany
A German group with an interest in the German railway and tram network. Their web site is also available in English.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Spa Valley Railway www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk
Tunbridge Wells TN2 5QY England
The Spa Valley Railway runs for 3½ miles through the picturesque Kentish Weald countryside between the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the village of Groombridge, stopping off in between at High Rocks.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Yorkshire Waterways Museum www.waterwaysmuseum.org.uk
Goole DN14 5TB England
The Yorkshire Waterways Museum offers an extensive collection which tells the story of the Port of Goole, the transportation of coal, the lives of barge families, and the boat building tradition of our ancestors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
National Waterways Museum - Ellesmere Port www.nwm.org.uk/...
Ellesmere Port CH65 4FW England
Bringing Britain's canal history to life
Last updated: 2007-10-07
National Waterways Museum - Stoke Bruerne www.nwm.org.uk/...
Stoke Bruerne NN12 7SE England
Explore the story of Britain's waterways in a restored corn mill alongside the Grand Union Canal.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
National Waterways Museum - Gloucester Docks www.nwm.org.uk/...
Gloucester GL1 2EH England
Housed over three storeys in a Victorian warehouse, situated in the heart of the city’s historic Gloucester Docks the museum recreates the story of the people who worked on the waterways and on the dockside.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Anderton Boat Lift www.andertonboatlift.co.uk
Northwich CW9 6FW England
The Anderton Boat Lift was built in 1875 and was the world's first boat lift. Until Foxton is rebuilt it will remain England's only boat lift but others exist around the world.
Last updated: 2008-04-22
Wherry Yacht White Moth www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/...
Horning, Norfolk England
Wherry Yacht White Moth was built in 1915 by Ernest Collins of Wroxham for the Coleman family (of mustard fame) and was the last wherry yacht ever built.
Last updated: 2009-10-11
Brownsea Island www.nationaltrust.org.uk/...
Poole England
A tranquil wooded island in Poole Harbour
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Burnham Beeches www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...
England
Regarded as one of the best examples of ancient woodland in Britain
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Paddle Steamer Waverley www.waverleyexcursions.co.uk/...
UK
The last sea-going paddle steamer in the world
Last updated: 2008-05-04
M. V. Balmoral www.pswaverley.org
UK
M.V. Balmoral is a classic passenger ship built in 1949 and sails around the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man every year.
Last updated: 2007-10-02
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum www.wealddown.co.uk
Singleton, Chichester PO18 0EU England
The leading museum of historic buildings in England
Last updated: 2007-10-01
Manx Electric Railway www.iomguide.com/...
Isle of Man
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Isle of Man Steam Railway www.iomguide.com/...
Isle of Man
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Churnet Valley Railway www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk
Cheddleton England
The Churnet Valley Railway runs through the scenic Churnet Valley alongside the Caldon Canal.
Last updated: 2009-05-22
Romney Hythe and Dymchuch Railway www.rhdr.org.uk
TN28 8PL England
'The worlds smallest public railway' was opened in 1927 and operates on 15 inch guage tracks over a distance of 13.5 miles. The fleet of one-third full size steam and diesel locomotives were built between 1925 and 1937 and run at speeds up to 25mph.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Black Country Living Museum www.bclm.co.uk
Dudley DY1 4SQ England
An urban heritage park to which buildings from throughout the Black Country have been relocated. The site includes trams, trolleybuses, coal mine, blacksmith's and canal plus a traditional pub and fish & chip shop.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Historic Dockyard Chatham www.chdt.org.uk
Chatham ME4 4TZ England
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is a maritime heritage site that covers over 400 years of Britain's maritime history and provides the world's most complete dockyard of the age of sail.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Terence Nunn's Attic www.tnunn.f2s.com
London England
Not a real place, it's a website. See his photos of interesting London buildings taken over many years.
Last updated: 2007-10-02
Museum of Science and Industry www.msim.org.uk
Manchester M3 4FP England
Includes an interesting collection of railway locomotives and live industrial steam engines.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Sauschwaenzlebahn www.sauschwaenzlebahn.de
78176 Blumberg Germany
Steam railway with impressive viaducts and tunnels.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Trattoria dai Tosi
Venice 738-Venezia Italy
Pizzeria/Trattoria in Secco Marina near the Giardini vaporetti stop, a few stops to the east of San Marco. Also does take away pizzas or stand in the street drinking beer. Half way along the street on the S side, beware similarly named place on N side.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Great Dorset Steam Fair www.steam-fair.co.uk
South Down, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford England
Held on a 600 acre site and visted by over 200,000 visitors from both the UK and abroad.
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Oberweissbacher Bergbahn and Schwarzatalbahn
South of Chemnitz Germany
The funicular railway is unique. It can carry conventional standard-gauge vehicles. Wagons can be shunted from off the valley line, via a turntable, onto a freight carrying wagon that usually carries a passenger car - an unusual steep but horizontal ride.
Last updated: 2004-05-14
Lamb Hotel www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Eccles, Greater Manchester M30 0BP England
Town pub owned by Holt's brewery - in an area where lots of pubs are becoming 'Hawaii Beach Bar's' and the like, this is a wonderful example of a pub. Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-14
Schynige Platte Bahn www.funet.fi/...
Wilderwill, near Interlaken Switzerland
Rack railway built in 1893 with much original equipment. Identical technology to the much more famous Wengen Alp Bahn further up the valley, but the SPB still uses original electric locos.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Goodison Park Stadium Tour www.evertonfc.com/...
Liverpool England
This is particularly draught do the staff - it is run by an Everton hero of the 1950's (who scored over 400 goals) who tells magnificent stories of the 'old days' of top division football.
Last updated: 2007-10-06
Bus route west of Tobermory
Mull Scotland
A once a day bus that heads towards Calgary Beach, a deserted beach, meant to be one of the best five beaches in Europe - although we never quite made it all the way... next time.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Orange Empire Railway Museum www.oerm.org/...
Perris, California USA
Museum principally for the Red Cars and Yellow Cars of the early Los Angeles area massive tramway system. Very friendly, they are more than happy to let you drive the vehicles - especially if you ask with your wunnerful English accent!
Last updated: 2004-05-04
Bluebell Railway www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Sheffield Park TN22 3QL England
The UK's first preserved standard gauge passenger railway, re-opening part of the Lewes to East Grinstead line of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960. Since then it has developed into one of the largest tourist attractions in Sussex, yet it still remains true to its objectives of the preservation for posterity of a country branch line, its steam locomotives, coaches and goods stock, signalling systems, stations and operating practices.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
East Lancashire Railway www.east-lancs-rly.co.uk
Bury England
Steam Railway
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Falkirk wheel www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk
Falkirk Scotland
Canal lift - new but worth inclusion
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Black Horse Hotel www.heritagepubs.org.uk/...
Preston PR1 2EJ England
Robinsons pub with an excellent preserved interior. Included in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Hythe Pier Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Hythe near Southampton England
Narrow guage pier railway, originally from a WW1 mustard gas factory
Last updated: 2007-10-14