Lichfield 

We came home via Lichfield, the last time we visited was whilst we were house hunting in Staffordshire in 1979 so we decided it was time to revisit. 

There are two famous people associated with the city, Samuel Johnson (who was born there) and Erasmus Darwin (who was a local doctor).  Both have museums commemorating their lives, Darwin's was particularly interesting. 

He was a doctor, an inventor and a successful poet.   He was the founder of the Lunar Society a group of distinguished intellectuals including the entrepreneur Matthew Boulton, the engineer James Watt, the radical polymath Joseph Priestley who discovered oxygen, and the innovative potter and social reformer Josiah Wedgwood.

In his book Zoonomia published in 1794 he introduced the concept of evolution but it was far to revolutionary an idea to promote, that was left to his grandson Charles Darwin whose book published 60 years later caused a revolution in science.