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DIY Road Traffic Monitoring for Citizens

Ever wondered just how busy your street is? Telraam is a clever technical initiative that enables ordinary residents to gather data on the traffic passing their window. The Telraam sensor continuously monitors a street from a citizen’s window, providing crucial data on various types of transport, including...

Review: Normandy Victory Museum

The Normandy Victory Museum, sub-titled the Musée de la Bataille des Haies (Battle of the Hedgerows Museum) is quite a large museum (2,000 m²) and is definitely worth a visit, especially around lunchtime, because it also has a large brasserie restaurant split into a bistro and pizzeria....

Bawdsey Radar Museum

The Bawdsey Radar Museum is a small museum set up in the former transmission bunker on the 168-acre Bawdsey Manor estate, which became the home of British radar development in the 1930s, and later became RAF Bawdsey, a radar training school and Cold War missile base. The...

Flying Scotsman trips in 2024

After a successful and busy centenary year in 2023, Flying Scotsman‘s immediate future was unclear at the start of this year. Now we have more news. Flying Scotsman  is owned by the National Railway Museum (NRM). Up until Dec 2023 when the contract ended, she was operated...