How amazing can a Saturday be?

On Saturday we went to two different museums.

First, we went to the Cowper and Newton Museum (which is in Olney). It had really nice gardens, one of which was called the Summer Garden. Inside the museum were a couple of rooms. One of the rooms was where William Cowper kept his three pet hares. Another room was where there was an original chair, a farmhouse lounge that a lady dared William Cowper to make a poem about.

outside the front of the museum

the lounge that the lady dared Cowper to write a poem about!

A model of a slave ship

me outside the Summer House in the Summer Garden.

 Another room was all about John Newton (who wrote the song Amazing Grace).

Did you know? John Newton was a slave trader (but he stopped later and told people how bad it was to have slaves). Did you know that?
Did you know? John Newton didn't have anything to do about Isaac Newtown. Did you know that?

After more rooms, we went to the John Bunyan museum in Bedford. It was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good. There was a prison there and a quiz. They had been given the pulpit that John Bunyan used, not to mention we were the only people in there so a lady helped us.

a statue of John  Bunyan

outside the Bunyan museum