...but it didn't specify, for those of us who'd forgotten our O level history (and foreign visitors and schoolkids) which of the 8 King Henrys it was...
That's bad - whoever got the job of writing the display information either couldn't be bothered to do their research properly, or just made the text up from what little they knew. It certainly doesn't sound as if they had any interest in or enthusiasm for the subject. It reminds me of when I used to go to airshows, and heard various different commentators describing, say, a Spitfire, as it displayed. A few very good ones got their facts right; most were fairly well-informed; one or two dropped the most horrible howlers, showing appalling ignorance and lack of preparation.
I thought it was far inferior to Etal Castle in Northumbria which had none of the gift shop stuff, and wasn't as large or so intact but did have an excellent exhibition and guide book which clearly explained and evoked the history of the place.
That sounds much more like it; they obviously made the effort to do the job properly. I'll bet more people keep the guide books from places like Etal than they do from Warwick.
Whereas at Warwick we got "Stuff Happened Here! Wow!" with no elaboration.
Erk. Much pomp, and no substance. It really does sound awful.
...it's not strong enough to play with outside.
The one I've seen up close was very small indeed and weighed about two ounces; outside, I can imagine a light breeze carrying it off or worse.
I'm planning on looking into how much it costs to hire a room at the local Leisure centre - they have several that might be suitable for eciloptering in.
I hgope you find something at a reasonable rate; you could always start a local Indoor Model Flying Club and split the cost :-)
whoever got the job of writing the display information
There wasn't much in the way of written information at all, and what there was was in a curly "medieval" script that was difficult to read, so I didn't bother - there was a brief soundtrack thingie, but it was basically useless.
A shame because the actual tableaux were very good - as you might expect from an attraction owned by Tussauds - there was just little or no explanantion :-(
I hgope you find something at a reasonable rate
The Main Hall is only £6.10 per hour on weekdays, which sounds quite good really! I think it's around school gym sort of size, so there ought to be scope for flying in there.
...what there was was in a curly "medieval" script that was difficult to read, so I didn't bother
Oh, good grief; a triumph of form over function, indeed.
...there was a brief soundtrack thingie, but it was basically useless.
I can well believe it; the audio equipment was probably the cheapest they could buy, and is probably well worn after thousands of playings.
The Main Hall is only £6.10 per hour on weekdays, which sounds quite good really!
That rate does sound good, for a gym-size room these days. If memory serves, when I was secretary in the early '70s, the local amateur radio club meeting room, which was roughly twenty feet wide by thirty feet long, in a small town community centre, was something like £3 per two-hour weekday evening session.
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That's bad - whoever got the job of writing the display information either couldn't be bothered to do their research properly, or just made the text up from what little they knew. It certainly doesn't sound as if they had any interest in or enthusiasm for the subject. It reminds me of when I used to go to airshows, and heard various different commentators describing, say, a Spitfire, as it displayed. A few very good ones got their facts right; most were fairly well-informed; one or two dropped the most horrible howlers, showing appalling ignorance and lack of preparation.
That sounds much more like it; they obviously made the effort to do the job properly. I'll bet more people keep the guide books from places like Etal than they do from Warwick.
Erk. Much pomp, and no substance. It really does sound awful.
The one I've seen up close was very small indeed and weighed about two ounces; outside, I can imagine a light breeze carrying it off or worse.
I hgope you find something at a reasonable rate; you could always start a local Indoor Model Flying Club and split the cost :-)
There wasn't much in the way of written information at all, and what there was was in a curly "medieval" script that was difficult to read, so I didn't bother - there was a brief soundtrack thingie, but it was basically useless.
A shame because the actual tableaux were very good - as you might expect from an attraction owned by Tussauds - there was just little or no explanantion :-(
The Main Hall is only £6.10 per hour on weekdays, which sounds quite good really! I think it's around school gym sort of size, so there ought to be scope for flying in there.
Oh, good grief; a triumph of form over function, indeed.
I can well believe it; the audio equipment was probably the cheapest they could buy, and is probably well worn after thousands of playings.
That rate does sound good, for a gym-size room these days. If memory serves, when I was secretary in the early '70s, the local amateur radio club meeting room, which was roughly twenty feet wide by thirty feet long, in a small town community centre, was something like £3 per two-hour weekday evening session.