[Spridgets] going to England

[Chris King]

If your tour gets you up toward the Midlands, there's also Coventry
Cathedral and the Coventry Transport Museum.
 
Just north of there is the old Bass brewery, but unfortunately it's
owned by Coors now. They still have all the Burton Union sysytem stuff
in the museum though.
 
-=Chris


Chris King
http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/ 

 <-----Original Message----->

 	  	 From: David Booker [tncarnut1 at yahoo.com]
Sent: 4/7/2009 5:41:35 AM
To: bmwwxman at gmail.com
Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] going to England 

--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote: "Brooklands
Auto 
Museum" 

Ooh - that one slipped my mind. Yes, Brooklands is extremely cool.
Situated 
within the remaining bit of the old track. You can still walk the high
banks 
and 'Pilgrimage' is the proper word for the experience. The museum also
has 
lots of WWII vehicles. The AC Cars factory is also at Brooklands. When I
was 
there, Brian Angliss housed his private collection of British racing 
motorcycles and his pair of Hurricane fighters inside the place. (he
kept his 
workers busy restoring them when orders weren't coming in for cars)
Don't 
know if he even still owns AC, though. 

Also, There's a castle at the cliffs of Dover that if I remember
correctly 
conceals the secret entrance to Churchill's WWII bunkers. They had caves
dug 
all through the cliffs, looking out at France where they apparently ran
much 
of the war. Supposedly haunted too, but nobody floated by when I was 
there... Castles have always fascinated me. One of my favorites is
Bowden. 
Very classic castle with towers and moat and drawbridge. Maybe even more
fascinating? They stll have the paperwork on file in London where they 
applied for a building permit for the place 800+ years ago - no kidding.