Home again

We are safely home despite a flat tyre on the M40.

On the way we

1. went up the cliff railway at Bridgnorth, - see the video
   
   
2. visited the Severn Valley Railway


3. picnicked by a canal,
4. and visited the Boulton exhibition in Birmingham.

The children enjoyed 'minting' coins, taking coin rubbings, or stamping golden coloured paper. I hadn't realised Boulton had had a contract to make copper pennies, particularly cartwheels, called that because of the ridge round the outside.

I have a similar one - a huge copper penny, dated 1799 with George III's head. I bought it for half a crown from a girl in school whose grandfather had found it in a wall of his cottage.