Weird & wonderful · North West England
Britain's strangest museums
Pencils, lawnmowers, dog collars, mustard, marbles, and 4 million seashells.
Britain takes museums seriously enough to have ten dedicated to a single subject that would not justify even a paragraph elsewhere. The world's largest pencil. A 4-million-shell underground passage of unknown origin. A museum of historic dog collars in a working castle.
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