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Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (Great Missenden)
 Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (Great Missenden) ... work of one of the world's favorite storytellers is scheduled to open in 2005 in Buckinghamshire, UK.Newest Review: ... the village. Situated on the left of the main street, the Roald Dahl Museum is almost hidden amongst a row of terraced shops and houses. The actual museum itself looks like converted terraced houses and would be easy to walk straight past! Entering through the front of the building, you are greeted with the reception room on the left whilst the rest of the museum is a set of rooms based ... more ... around a courtyard in the centre in of a quadrangle (just like one of my old schools used to be *sigh*).
The Boy and Solo Galleries are devoted to Dahl’s life and times as he grew up. Entering through doors made to look like bars of chocolate, the Boy Ga...more |
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Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (Great Missenden): Mara and The Chocolate Factory (1473 words)
by - written on 17/04/06 (Very useful, 1448 readings)
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***Introduction*** Filling in those long days during half-term school holidays can seem interminable. These days I find myself a slave to the Internet more and more as I seek out new ideas. This particular half-term saw me resorting to a quick search on Google to hopefully return some suggestions. Scanning the deepest recesses of the Hinterweb, I ended up at www.kayukay.co.uk, which lists places to go in "Middle England with kids". Of the locations shown, the one that piqued my interest the most was the Roald Dahl’s Children’s Gallery in Aylesbury. In a bizarre twist of fate, whilst researching for even more information, I ended up locating a relatively ... Read the complete review
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