29-30 June 2023
On one of our trips to York, we visited ‘Jorvic’(Viking name for York). This was an interactive experience, detailing the Viking influence in York. It was really well done and the figures extremely lifelike!
We also enjoyed visiting the markets, Armoury museum and Leeds Minster in Leeds.
The next stop was the Leeds Armoury museum. This is an extensive collection of arms and armoury, covering not only European but some Asian and Arabic displays. There are entire walls lined with swords, pikes, pistols and armour, they must have thousands of pieces on display.
This Lion armour was fascinating – very ornate. Nobody really knows who it was made for!
And some great orchestrated demonstrations to show how these weapons were used.
While visiting Leeds Minister we managed to listen to an organ recital (a duet which was unusual)
It had some weird seating upstairs and at the sides.
England 2023 