tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post5252614509189098657..comments2024-03-13T16:33:53.563+00:00Comments on <b>Dr Tony Shaw</b><br>: The Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, LewishamDr Tony Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07565448709541046337noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-39729073848911265382015-08-26T15:14:36.268+01:002015-08-26T15:14:36.268+01:00I too remember the beautiful waterfall garden whic...I too remember the beautiful waterfall garden which is no more. So sad. Bulldozed to create disabled access.<br />I used to visit Horseman's Museum & garden via the 185 bus from my home in Montem Rd. That was in the 1950s.<br />I remember the bees in their hive with a glass front so one was able to view them at work. <br />I also remember "the torture chair" which filled me with horror. I believe it's still there. There was a programme on BBC TV many years ago which was about the museum & they said that the torture chair was a fake. I was relieved that was the case as I hated to think of people suffering in it.<br />The waterfall garden tho' was my favourite place. It was on a child's scale, skipping along the narrow paths, across little bridges with the water trickling below.<br />Suddenly I recall the Apostles' clock, forgotten till now!<br />Pat Bunce nee HartPat Bunce nee Hartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-90660612293184589992014-04-27T18:15:25.045+01:002014-04-27T18:15:25.045+01:00What a lovely comment: enough to make anyone what ...<b>What a lovely comment: enough to make anyone what to go there! Many thanks for this.</b>Dr Tony Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07565448709541046337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-45249991761789508232014-04-26T09:51:13.102+01:002014-04-26T09:51:13.102+01:00just by chance! Looked at your photographs - many ...just by chance! Looked at your photographs - many good memories of Horniman's Museum - and park, from earliest childhood with my mother (1940s). Beginning with a bus stop (I think 185/176/12) - and wooden chalet/sweetshop a little way downhill from the entrance. (honeycomb 'crunchie bars', kit kats, pear drops & tizer) There was a kind of Japanese garden before the Museum - with tiny waterfalls, streams, stepping stones, rocks and flowers - with huge dragonflies/butterflies. I can see mind-images with sun/shadows and hear the bees and birds still. Maybe Everyman remembers the walrus in his glass case - with a patch on his bottom - and the 'apostles' clock - with judas who turns the opp. way to all the others, the glass beehive, the sound of museum silence, etcetc - but I had forgotten the mosaic and the architecture till I saw these images. Thank you for posting them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com