Wednesday 5th June, 2024 - Cotswolds - Burton in the Hill, Broadway,Snowshill,

 This was our last day travelling around in the beautiful part of the world.  We started our day, by going to the local Farm Shop and garden centre for morning tea and then drove through Burton on the Hill on the way to Snowshill, again such beautiful scenery.  While driving through Snowshill we spotted a sign for the Snowshill Manor and gardens, which we proceeded to visit.

What can I say !!! it is by far the sttrangest collection of stuff, maybe antiques, just not sure  !!!It is the collection of Charles Paget Wade, who was sent to live with his grandmother, to get a better education. He eventually qualified as an architect and became and illustrator and collector.  The collection contains everything from a Cantonese Shrine cabinet, 

to models of ships and boats 

to rusty old bicycles

to musical instruments and clothing and much more

The gardens were lovely and contained a small model village, which he built himself

We spent quite a lot of time here, and then we went to Broadway, Laverton, and Buckland, all with beautiful scenery

On the way back to the Hops and Vines we stopped in Teddington at GWR Rail facility, where they restore both steam and diesel locomotives

some of the locomotives look old, but in actual fact were rebuilt a couple of years ago, and this is possible because GWR built all their engines from standardised components.

From here we went back to the pub next door for dinner