Friday, 14 September 2018

Last photos from Carmarthen Museum


This is just outside Carmarthen (ages since we've been there so I must go again).  As you can see from the photo, the church is on the edge of a MUCH earlier site.





8 is the one on the left, and we found one of these laying about in the yard . . .  I must find out the box it's in and take a photo for comparison.


My children will remember this school room well, as every time we went to the Museum (and the one at Brecon, which also had a schoolroom) I would be Teacher!


Sorry for the reflection, but this is a room set out as it was used in the cottage a couple of photos below.






This is the small farmhouse which the room settings came from.  Looks pretty basic, but I bet it was spick and span inside.  The wriggly tin on the roof is a replacement for the thatch which once covered it.



A photo of our river with the lovely scalloped rocks - taken down by the Mill I think.  (Not my photo, but one on display in the Museum.)


General Picton was our local hero.


Finally, the Museum from the outside.

13 comments:

  1. Really enjoyed these posts. Thank you for taking us.

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  2. Glad you enjoyed walking round the museum with me Jill.

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  3. You live in such a beautiful place. Love the scalloped rocks in your river.

    cheers, parsnip and badger

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    1. I am so lucky to live here, as it is really lovely. Think of the thousands of years it took the water to wear away the rock like that.

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  4. Some of the photos are not showing up Jennie, perhaps they will come back later. The school room looks a very solemn place.

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  5. Scrub that, they have all showed up now.

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    1. I'm glad they all decided to load for you. The school room does look like the Three R's were strictly taught!

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  6. Really good trip to the museum, I've enjoyed your visit. Room settings are always the best.
    That monument must have made a pretty posh garden wall, good thing it was rescued for all to see

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    1. If you like room settings, you will love the Scolton Manor photos when I put them up Sue. It certainly WAS a posh garden wall!

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  7. This is another fascinating post but, the photograph which I love most of all is the one of the rocks and river, that is mind-bogglingly beautiful. The Forces of Nature as artist.
    I hope you manage to find your fossil, that must have been an exciting find.

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    1. It is a lovely photo. I will fossick about for that fossil - I knew exactly where it was until we got the new dressers, now I will have to locate the box of bits that came from the old school cupboard.

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  8. I love coming for a visit and seeing all your lovely photos.

    God bless.

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  9. Hi Jackie. Glad to have you visiting. I will put up some early sculptured stone crosses before I go back to Museum postings of Scolton Manor. I hope you enjoy those too.

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