Jim and I decided to have a few days away before I return to uni. We are staying in Stockport as it is cheaper than Manchester.
Today we drove up from Essex, and had a look in the Hat Museum. Quite small, but very interesting. The most intriguing object was a head measurer, called a Conformateur, from Lock's, one of the few remaining hat making companies in Stockport. It looked like a top hat made from vertically sliding cylinders , which created indentations on a piece of paper, in the precise outline of the person's head, which turned out to be highly individual. The display showed Kenneth Branagh and Tracey Emin both have virtually rectangular heads, Harold Wilson had a head that was oval but quite a lot wider at his ears, and Jackie Stewart and David Niven appeared to have a considerable dent in thier respective heads at the right temple!
Tomorrow we plan to go to Manchester Art Gallery to see the Grayson Perry tapestries on social class. Roll on tomorrow!
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