Tuesday 19 October 2010

Toys and Taxidermy

What weekend would be complete without a trip to a museum exhibiting deceased woodland creatures, carefully arranged in distinctly human scenarios? Or a miniature fairground populated by kitsch toy characters, which springs to life every fifteen minutes? Or circus posters showcasing the entire spectrum of sideshow freak? The Museum of Everything currently offers all this and more.

Imports from Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosities...



Photos of the circus's circuit regulars...



Arthur Windley's itty-bitty fairground, lovingly constructed over a forty-year period...