Reading - Britain's Bayeux Tapestry

On Saturday I fulfilled a long held ambition, and went on a trip to Reading Museum.

Why Reading Museum you ask? I see the full sized replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. The story of how the replica came to be made is great fun: https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/history-britains-bayeux-tapestry , and is crying out for a film treatment of some kind...

It has bustles, Victorian business acumen, and censorship (and Staffordshire accents which Isn't very Hollywood I guess).

The chaps at the British Museum who supplied the photos to the lady embroiderers turned the horses into geldings, and gave various nude men little shorts.

Unlike the the original, you have plenty of time to linger, and enjoy all the little details....

...so many lovely little critters...

...and as a friend pointed out, one of the earliest depictions of mobile 'phone use :-)

The museum also houses some nice Roman bits and pieces, included this lovely world, weary bronze eagle from Silchester. It's said to be the inspiration for Rosemary Sutcliff's book ' The Eagle of the Ninth'. A book I adored.

There's a gallery about Huntley and Palmer, formerly a big local employer.

I do love a local museum....