Cornwall(ish) 2021, day 2!
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torkell(writing in November)
Random sign of the day: "Please feel free to distract us with any other questions whiles we work with extremely hot molten glass"
Saturday dawned somewhat grey and damp, and we all set off away from Cornwall (I did say it was a Cornwallish holiday!) to visit the House of Marbles! I'd heard of the brand before, but have never visited the actual museum/workshop (or even knew that it existed - I've no idea how we never discovered it on any of the many family trips to Cornwall over the years). And it is indeed a house of marbles (for certain values of house and/or marbles). There's a museum with a bit on the history of marbles and marble-making, many marbles:
a couple of elaborate marble machines, a glass-making workshop, a Hawkins Bazaar-esque shop... and down the far end of the shop is this behemoth:
That is a giant marble machine with snooker-ball-sized marbles taking up the entire end wall and more. I heard it clanking away from halfway across the shop!
Snooki 2000
Random sign of the day: "Please feel free to distract us with any other questions whiles we work with extremely hot molten glass"
Saturday dawned somewhat grey and damp, and we all set off away from Cornwall (I did say it was a Cornwallish holiday!) to visit the House of Marbles! I'd heard of the brand before, but have never visited the actual museum/workshop (or even knew that it existed - I've no idea how we never discovered it on any of the many family trips to Cornwall over the years). And it is indeed a house of marbles (for certain values of house and/or marbles). There's a museum with a bit on the history of marbles and marble-making, many marbles:
a couple of elaborate marble machines, a glass-making workshop, a Hawkins Bazaar-esque shop... and down the far end of the shop is this behemoth:
That is a giant marble machine with snooker-ball-sized marbles taking up the entire end wall and more. I heard it clanking away from halfway across the shop!
Snooki 2000
