![]() The museum, located in a former coaching inn on the village high street and the home of Dahl's complete archive, is a combination of his real and fantasy worlds.Īt the entrance, visitors walk through giant Wonka chocolate bar doors and are assailed by the smell of cocoa. Later in the war, he worked for British intelligence in Washington. Born in Cardiff in Wales in 1916 to a Norwegian family, Dahl's writing career began with weekly letters home from boarding school, creatively circumnavigating his unhappiness.ĭahl went on to work for oil giant Shell in Dar es Salaam in what is now Tanzania, then served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.Īn air ace, he was badly injured in a crash landing in Libya in 1940.
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