Museum, Textiles , more black and white houses

 First of all, I must apologise for the poor quality of the photos. The lighting was bad and most items were behind glass.

Our next town was Leominster, about 12 mile from Ludlow. Many beautiful houses as you will see later in this post but I also spent quite some time in the local museum chatting with Carol, one of the volunteers. 

The current VE80 exhibitions caught my eye, including this sampler depicting woman's roles during the war years, There's a land girl, munitions works, wife/mother, ATS (Women's Branch British Army ) nurse and WRAF (Women's Royal Airforce )

Reusing old clothing to make rag rugs was encouraged. Interestingly, on our next campsite, the lady in the caravan next door was making a clippy rug with woollen fabrics, further conversation revealed that she was also a spinner.

 Make do and mend, darning mushroom.

There was , however, a sweet spinning wheel, unfortunately someone didn't have instructions on how to put it together.

The spinning wheel is an easy fix and once the flyer has been repositioned it should spin nicely.

They also had a display of miniature hats made by a local milliner. Unfortunately I forgot to noted down the details regarding dates etc and the photos do not do them justice at all.

Fir lunch, I was recommended to visit Grange Court built in 1633 and later relocated to the site of the castle, where there is an embroidery exhibition of the history of Leominster, Beautiful building, excellent food at a reasonable price.

Building wise, similar to Ludlow as you may expect, timber frames abound.

and there were sheep !!