So much fun! We had to drag the kids away…read more All indoors and the staff were funny, friendly and full of knowledge.

This is a great day out regardless of age be you 5 or 105 there should be something to interest…read moreyou. Located on a former wartime Air-base this museum is run by many volunteers, including an ex-rear Gunner and wireless operator who was shot up during a raid over Germany. George Martin can be found in the Air Gunners Exhibition and I can assure you a more interesting bloke with his experiences and memories of this period I have yet to meet. The Museum is spread within several restored wartime sheds which house the various themes on display, along with many restored aircraft outside and in hangers. It also still has the air traffic control tower which displays how things would have been. One of the hangers displays other restored Aircraft including, the Halifax bomber of which nearly 80 were lost during raids over Germany from this base alone. Other more modern planes are also on display including the Buccaneer, Vulcan Bomber, and Harrier to name a few. The museum continues to restore aircraft and long may it continue we had an excellent day out and at an entrance cost of only £5.00 per adult including parking it wasn't going to break the bank.

We went on a slightly miserable but warm morning. When we arrived we were very impressed with the…read moresetup of the museum. It is very well kept with lots if different executions and lots of planes to see. I was particularly impressed with the Halifax bomber! You could also try out a couple of actual cockpits and they had 2 simulators, one to practice landings and the other as a rear gunner! The sun came out and it was a glorious day, we sat outside the NAAFI with a drink and a cake from the canteen. We would highly recommend you take a trip out, the kids would love it at well!!!

Interesting museum with a displays about various aspects of the criminal justice system locally…read more Quite expensive for a small museum but worth the money. There is a rather good audio commentary but unfortunately it does not work as intended because there is a very poor mobile signal and the free Wi-Fi does not work in the main exhibition areas, it only works close to reception. Doubtless this is due to the thick walls of the former jail, but if the investment in Wi-Fi that covered the whole place could be made, it would enable visitors to make full use of some good material (which I listened to later when connected elsewhere). Anyway, that aside, it is an interesting place with plenty of exhibits and explanations about the misery of being a prisoner in that building, and memorabilia relating to the police.

I have allways loved the James herriot books and was keen to visit this place. I wasn't…read moredisappointed and there was so much to see.It was more real than I could have dreamed.A lot is just as it was and you could imagine them in the dining room and the dispensry was amazing. We sat in the gardena and it was like something out of my childhood and I allmost expected to see a young Herriot sleeping in a pram.A lot of the kitchen stuff etc. were things I remembered seeing in use years ago.I watch the repeats of the programmes with new eyes.

Great little step back in time for history and geology buffs. A quick 40 minutes and some great…read moregifts in the shop. Alas alack, Gristhorpe man was not on display when we went.

Interesting little local museum, which may not ever rival the big city museums, but offers plenty…read moreto look at for the size of the place. Recently refurbished (and opened on time and under budget, amazingly) the Rotunda offers a couple of florrs worth of displays. On the ground floor, theres a large 3-D section of coast which makes up part of the 'Dinosaur Coast' and shows wildlife and fossil samples. The first floor focuses on geology, and offers plenty to look at and learn about on this topic and features the skeleton of Gristhorpe Man, which is probably one of the prize exhibits and well worth a looksee. Its not for everyone, admittedly, and probably certainly not for younger children as its the kind of subject matter adults will appreciate more, but admission prices are reasonable - under 18s get in free - and thers enough to see to be able to pass an hour or more.

Bowling Hall is a large museum in a medieval building, it is set in a leafy garden with a large…read morepark across the road. It was a stronghold in the 'siege of Bradford' and where a ghost requested that we 'pity poor Bradford'! The exhibits are quite 'traditional', but this doesn't detract from the charm of the museum, in fact quite often you can be the only people in the attraction which gives it a certain atmosphere, especially when you are wandering around the haunted rooms! The museum is large enough to while away an hour, but not too big that it would be boring for younger visitors. The promise of a play in the park and an icecream should keep them quiet and on their best behaviour too - the park opposite the museum is large and well kept and has something for everyone.

This is a lovely old house situated in the Bradford 4 area…read more The ground floor where you enter is slighlty darker than the rest and can frighten some younger children. There is many things on show, that can teach young children and older children about how people used is to live. This place is said to be haunted and appeared on most haunted. It has different events happening through out the years and is a good place to vist.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' is brought to life in this walk-through attraction - a series of 10 scenes…read moreusing sounds and new electronic special effects, eerie life-size models and live actors. A cape weighing 56 kilos and worn by Christopher Lee in his 2nd 'Dracula' film is on show. They say it is an educational and historical tour, ideal for school partiesI think more of an old fashioned fun house thing. Dracula and Whitby were thrown together in a most dramatic manner, to say the least. A terrifying storm lashed the coastline and the Russian schooner, Demeter, somehow managed to gain the safety of the harbour. The Dailygraph newspaper summed up the strange event thus: The searchlight followed her, and a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with a drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship. No other form could be seen on deck at all. A great awe came on all as they realized that the ship, as if by a miracle, had found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man! However, all took place more quickly than it takes to write these words. The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier. But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below, as if shot up by the concussion, and running forward, jumped from the bow on the sand. Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones - 'thruff-steans' or 'throughstones,' as they call them in the Whitby vernacular - actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight. Bram Stoker found some of his inspiration for Dracula after staying in the town. He stayed in a house on the West Cliff (the Crescent). Stoker found a general history book at the Whitby Library (which was near the Quayside originally). He tells us so at the top of a sheet of his notes taken from William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' (1820). These notes contain the only reference to Dracula (the historical figure) in all of Stoker's papers. There seems to be little doubt that Whitby is where he discovered the name. Prices Adult £1.95 Child £1.50 Concession £1.50 Family £6.00 (2 adults & 2 children)

The Dracula Experience has been in Whitby for donkey's years, and still seems to be a very popular…read moreattraction! It is situated on Marine Parade, opposite the Lifeboat Mooring. It is open all year round, including Christmas and New Year! I visited the Draculsa Experience a couple of years back with my niece who was 13 at the time. We kind of knew what to expect, and we weren't disappointed! Although there's really not much to the attraction itself it does have it's charm; it's basically just a walk-through telling the story of Dracula, with waxworks and spooky noises to give it that authentic spooky feel! There was a live actor on when we visited (at least i hope it was an actor) and he was following us around touching us with his long rubber hands! We thought this was hilarious as we kept telling him to go away and making the sign of the cross at him! I would recommend the Dracula Experience for adults and older children; it would probably be too scary for most under sevens. It is a daft laugh and you can't knock it for some cheap entertainment!

I was so very impressed with this museum! It's not just a history of the castle and prison within…read morebut also a history of Britain through the times. Enjoy each "decade" of British history between window exhibits , a Victorian street you can walk through (and in and out of shops , sit in a school classroom and sit in a prison cell) and enjoy tons of interactive exhibits such as a room full of vintage arcades and a WWI trench. The prison is really neat - from getting a sense of how it was Luis to be locked in one of the cells to the ability to watch/listen holograms of famous prisoners - very interesting and a highlight in York!!

This place was full history and it is set to tell a different story in every room. It was a nice…read moreinteractive museum with plenty of staff giving speeches to inform the audience of different perspectives of history. It was a nice experience but it did smell a bit funky in there. Pro Tip, use your London Pass for "free" entrance and you will ultimately save yourself a few bucks.

Wonderful place for a train loving kid and his family :) The collection here is nothing short of…read moreamazing. The Flying Scottsman was a favorite though I wish we could have gone in. The North Shed is undergoing construction that was the only bummer. Everything else fantastic. Was cool to see the royal cars and get a sense of how the (my favorite was the suite for Queen Victoria) traveled!! The museum has 2 buildings. Both buildings have cafes and gift shops. The better gift shop is in the main entrance building.

It is a very cool place and a must visit place in York UK So…read moremuch rail history and so many things to do . You can sit in a bullet train see various old and new engine models and what not If you are into train this is the place . They also have a sit down restaurant and a VR experience

Many books have been Written using Whitby as the setting. Most notably of course Dracula and the…read moreteen books of the Witby Witches series by Robin Jarvis which mentions the whole town but particularly the 199 steps, the hand of glory, in the museum, and the Aufwaders..a mysterious clan of gnome like fisherfolk who live in the cliffs. But the most famous as I say is Dracula. The author Bram Stoker, set three quarters of his story around Whitby and it is still possible to retrace those steps of the undead, taking the Dracula Trail Tour. Overall I was very impressed with the Whitby Dracula Trail For 50p I bought the Whitby Dracula Trail guide from the local Tourist Information Centre. The guide was developed with the help of the London based Dracula Society and takes in the landmarks of old and new Whitby. The tour starts at the Bram Stoker Memorial Seat which was built on the 20th April 1980 to commemorate the 68th anniversary of Bram Stoker's death. It was said that on this spot directly opposite the Royal Hotel, the inspiration for the novel, Dracula, was born. This bench on the west cliff, overlooking Whitby Harbor, is one that all travelers should visit at least once. Bring a breakfast thermos of (blood?) bloody Marys and your tattered copy of Dracula. Read chapters six through eight while sitting on the bench, and watch the novel come to life before you begin the trail. Below are the cold sand beaches that welcomed the Russian schooner Demeter, the ship that brought Dracula to England from Transylvania. In the book, the ship's captain is dead and lashed to the wheel. The crew is missing. The only sign of life on board is a huge, black, dog-like creature that dives from the ship and disappears into the narrow alleys of Whitby's east side. A real Russian schooner called Demitrius washed ashore on those sands in 1885, about a decade before Stoker visited Whitby for a holiday weekend. Gaze across the harbor to the east cliff where the red-roofed houses seem to pile up on top of each other against the hillside, just like Stoker's character Mina Harker described. At the top of the cliff are St. Mary's Church and its graveyard of limestone markers, worn blank by the North Sea wind. (some say brass plaques were removed to make musket balls in the Civil War). This is the graveyard where Stoker's ill-fated character Lucy is first seduced by the count. Dracula didn't die in Whitby, but he took refuge in the grave of George Cannon, who had commited suicide. According to the booklet there is no trace of George Cannon grave today. A Commemorative Plaque is at 6 Royal Crescent, on the West Cliff, where Bram Stoker stayed. There are still hotels in Royal Crescent today. As the self-guided tour winds its way around the old streets of Whitby documenting different points of interest it is easy to imagine yourself back in the 1870s when Stocker wrote his classic novel. As you make your way along the narrow streets and steep slopes, numerous old fashioned restaurants and quaint shops reminiscent of times past can be seen. Whitby has gone out of its way to mark and memorialize every possible sight in the town that had a place in the novel. The final destination on this tour is perhaps the most famous landmark mentioned in Dracula the 199 steps leading up to St. Mary's Church. It was here that Mina made a frantic dash as she ran up the steps to save Lucy only to find her friend being protected and asleep beside the Black Dog (Dracula). Of course the legend is that the black dog exists and can still be seen or heard howling. Even better do the tour at night on a Whitby Goth weekend when the place is full of vampires. Then without warning the tempest broke. With a rapidity which, at the time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to realize, the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed. The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster. White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs. Others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour. To add to the difficulties and dangers of the time, masses of sea-fog came drifting inland. White, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by. Bram Stoker, Dracula