Brooklands Museum

Today we went to the Brooklands Museum of cars and planes. I sat in Ayrton Senna’s old McLaren Formula one car, you weren’t really meant, to but one of the volunteers opened it up especially for some children to sit in and I was in the right place at the right time.

We got to look at some old racing helmets and goggles, which I had to wear gloves to touch because some of them were over 100 years old. We also got to try some on that weren’t quite as old and fragile.

There was also a McLaren display and it had a full size car made of Lego.

I also sat in a Harrier jump jet which you were meant to sit in. We could have gone in Concorde but it was fully booked. There were lots of other different planes that you could go in, one of them was a king’s plane (the Sultan of Oman - LP) and it even had beds in it, which had straps to keep you in. We went in a cargo plane that said it was used to transport horses.

Me and daddy enjoyed using touchscreens to design different planes and in the aeroplane factory there was an old newspaper and it was from today’s date in 1968! It is funny cos it is also Grandad's birthday!

We went in the London Bus Museum and saw lots of old and new buses (“nowadays buses” as I heard some annoying American children calling them. They then started using the overhead grab handles as gymnastic equipment. Tut tut.) I liked the canteen bus, because it is a bus that has food for the people that worked in the buses.

I really liked it at this museum and would recommend it to people.Read more