Joel Morris

Jason Hazeley

Alex Morris

Robin Halstead

From the writers of 'The Framley Examiner', a guide to great days out in Britain. It covers a collection of unusual places of interest that somehow encapsulate everything that's great about Britain. Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 2005.

Uncommonly British Days Out

Bollocks to Alton Towers

The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, don't worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique and, dammit, British. In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels under Liverpool and a terraced house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus's return. And along the way they met the people behind them all: enthusiasts, eccentrics and, you know, those who just sort of fell into looking after a vast collection of gnomes ... Makes you proud!

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