On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Billy Abbott wrote: [...] > The start of the train of events that led to me organising a trip there a > few months back was a twitter discussion (naturally) over whether > Forbidden Planet London could be considered a "geek mecca" or not.
Well, given there are branches of Forbidden Planet all over the UK, and they only cater to SF&F nerds, perhaps not. If a genre-specific shop is sufficient, why not Games Workship, Foyles, I Knit London, or the Vintage House? [...] > The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley (http://tnmoc.org) is one of > the geekiest places I've been for a long while. It certainly beat FP. The BT Museum was very good, but alas it's closed now. I believe all the exhibits went to the Telecommunications Heritage Group (THG) to be lovingly maintained. Unsurprisingly, there's a fair overlap between THG members and visitors to the TNMOC. Perhaps we could also approach the THG with a view to fondling their exhibits on a future date?