Strike Factory

Well as I write this I have caught another cold. Unbelievable, but looks like there is another cold going round the whole of my neighbours where I live. Meanwhile I will be visiting Hove and Brighton museums on Friday if anyone fancys meeting up, I will be at Hove Museum at roughly 10 am and then will venture to neighbouring Brighton museum by midday. Then I will be visiting Crawley museum on Sunday as part of my museum challenege the reports will be shorter in writing and will have some pictures of me at the museums. (Yes I have managed to get a temp camara). 

I came out of my tennis retirement on Sunday attending a beginners practice session at Haywards Heath Tennis Club, and seemed quite a good tennis club, if it goes well then hopefully will be back to my old self soon with me trying to get back into athletics as well. Looking forward to the cricket starting up again soon and attending those classic 20Cup matchs whether it is with John Triss, The Crocs, or The Lizards of NSP. Still yet to consider what my first cricket match will be this year mind, bearing in mind I am planning my annual pilgrimage to Eastbourne for the womens tennis event and possibly might do Wimbledon. But will def do a fair few Sussex matchs to see the Champions of England. With the usual visits to Hove and Horsham.

Not had much luck with housing finding out that Sussex Oakleaf in Burgess Hill are doing up their Fairfield Property and that no one will be able to move in until the end of the year. Then again with me possibly doing another year at C. Sussex H.Heath it may be a blessing in disguise, but then again means I am stuck at my present place for a bit longer (DOH). Meanwhile back in gear with homework and should get a lot out the way by Monday. Meanwhile I should get my provisional liesence through the post in the next few weeks, meaning I can go clubbing a lot more.

I will be back at college next week and will give people an insight into a day of the Access course at Haywards Heath, and introduce some fellow students.

Horsham Museum

Charles Ball, began his museum challenge by travelling to the home of charity shops, Yazoo drinks, and Carl Cox by visiting the fine Historic Market Towns museum. 

Mode of transport: Got the Southern train service from Ifield Station to Horsham Station where the train terminated, journey time was about 10 minutes, though can be a bit longer if you get a train that unluckily stops at the rail conductors favourite  place to chuck off yobbos the tiny rural Faygate Station (as a neighbour who works for Southern trains told me beforehand), used same transport to get back home.

Location and type of building: It is a fine former manor kind of house Causeway House, located on one of the most attractive and pleasant streets in Sussex The Causeway 

At the museum

I arrived at Horsham around Lunchtime. Sadly I was not able to bring a camara along so will have to describe, I got greeted by a friendly well spoken middle aged Horsham lady on entering the museum at the reception not quite the type that would go mad about Tim Henman I should note. 

One of the main features of the museum I noticed early on is its section on one of Horshams most famous sons the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, although because he was so much a part of life in Horsham that there are other areas that show Shelley related things. One example was the first room I walked into there were various portraits of notable Horsham nobles in the last few hundred years along with old objects. One portrait especially of one of the main vicars of Horsham in the late 18^th and early 19^th century that somehow put Shelley off religion. Was it because the vicar services were boring I wonder and hard to understand that made Shelley turn to the Necessity of Atheism? Also in the room was some fine knight armour that looked like it would lash out at you.

Next up was getting a taste of the old Horsham Law courts, government and its infamouse Gaols, where all kinds of gruelling stuff happened and showed all the torture equipment used to punish or execute criminals from the Horsham area (including the proto-yobbos of old Ifield Village).Though the Gaols were modified to form the first modern kind of jails in England with a jail room built in the room I was looking in, with a life like model man, in a scary bizarre green and yellow rugby looking shirt.

Boredom/ excitement meter: Had a lot of interesting displays and local history objects, and intresting learning the history though the odd display could seem a bit tedious

8/10  P.S This visit of this museum is dedicated to Horsham boy Tony Wales the notable Sussex Historian whose books and work on Sussex History and the infamous Sussex dialect influcenced me in my mid teens. RIP Tony Wales 1924-2007

Following a survey among fans of this site, it has been decided to change the name back to Strike Factory, after the survey found the name Strike Corperation was proving as unpopular as when the Post Office was known as Consignia. With some people admitting they had boycotted the site or all products and places connected with Strike Corperation. So I am delighted to announce that this site is once again STRIKE FACTORY.

Meanwhile I have got the last work out the way for this terms course at Haywards Heath, and on Saturday I had to venture with a friend to a house in deepest darkest Pala*e country (West Wickham to be accruate in SE London). To fix my friends mothers computer. It turned out this charming lady used to live and work at the legendary Black Swan at Pease Pottage, and had grown up there along with Worthing. Other than that not been doing a lot. Though I did go to Horsham museum in which a full report will pop up tomorrow. Plus considering going to Albion VS Doncaster but not sure if I have a old enough Albion top to go in anyone fancy helping let me know.