On this day we made a visit to the Imperial War Museum North – which is housed in a “deconstructionist” building (designed by Daniel Libeskind and supposedly “representing a globe shattered by conflict”…though I had to read the blurb on the wall inside to know that). The museum works hard to to engage the interest of visitors – with an complicated layout, huge videos played at regular intervals on the walls and lots of background information about the exhibits. According to the plaque this gun “fired the British army’s first artillery round of the first world war on the western front near Mons, Belgium”.

Thu-29-May-2025