Kayleigh recommended going to the Guildhall Museum for a visit which is right down the road where I live. There we found an actual Zoetrope Kayleigh remembered seeing on a previous visit. We found a lot more interesting stuff there including some of the objects people got as their characters!
"The Guildhall Museum was built in 1687 and is one of, if not, the finest 17th century civic buildings in Kent. The main staircase and principal chamber have magnificently decorated plaster ceilings, given in 1695 by Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell who was a Member of Parliament for the city of Rochester at the time. His portrait can be found in the main chamber, along with those of other notable MPs for the city. Outside, mounted on the cupola on the roof, is a superb gilded weather-vane in the form of a fully rigged 18th century warship. The model is surprisingly large, measuring some 4ft 6ins long, 1ft wide and has a 5ft tall mast, weighing just over 1cwt; it is made of gilded copper and lead alloy and has weathered the ever changing climates since 1780. The building now houses a museum of Medway’s history, where visitors follow a time line through the areas history aided by visual displays and sound effects. The centrepiece of which is a two-tier gallery recreating a prison hulk of the Napoleonic period, illustrating the terrible conditions in which prisoners were kept. There are also superb collections of Victoriania on view to the public in the adjoining Conservancy Wing." At: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am18461
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH That Penny Farthing is beauuutiful!
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