In Pictures: English tourist attractions prepare for return of visitors

Many attractions are reopening to the public following the relaxation of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Published Jul 30, 2020

Some of England’s best-known tourist attractions will reopen to the public this weekend following the gradual easing of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Even the statues at Madame Tussauds have been socially distanced – with some wearing masks outside the London venue – while planes were sanitised at the Imperial War Museum Duxford before an invasion of visitors.

The London Eye is ready to rotate again while staff were revving up at the Brooklands Museum for the restart.

And Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, one of England’s most celebrated stately homes, was also being made spick and span as the attraction prepares to reopen its doors.

A volunteer cleans the steps leading down from Concorde at Brooklands Museum (Andrew Matthews/PA)

A volunteer polishes a Napier Railton (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Engineer Joe Malkin from the Aircraft Restoration Company cleans the canopy of a Supermarine Spitfire (Joe Giddens/PA)

Things have come full circle at the London Eye as visitors return (John Walton/PA)

Castle Howard employee Dr Chris Ridgway cleans an ornate 17th-century Delft tulip vase (Danny Lawson/PA)

Theresa Ellis prepares Castle Howard for reopening (Danny Lawson/PA)

Wax figures, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Queen (Kirsty O'Connor/PA) — Wax figures, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Queen (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)