The Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom. 70 historic aircraft are displayed in three wartime hangars and within The National Cold War Exhibition. This landmark building costing £12.5...
Discover the place where Abraham Darby I made the smelting of iron with coke instead of charcoal. It was this that helped build iron to be the crucial material of the Industrial Revolution. The museum helps bring back to life the revolutionary method...
Jackfield was once at the centre of the world's tile industry. Jackfield Tile Museum is housed in a vast Victorian factory and commemorates the ornamental tiles that once charned the Empire....
Coalport China Museum was residence to the famous companies until 1926 and is housed with the best examples of their labour....
Broseley Pipeworks was once a striving factory producing clay pipes by the millions and exported them throughout the world, now sits abandoned. It still well preserved and remains as if the work force has just left moments before you arrive....
Delightful museum illustrating the life of the town. Much of the collection has been donated or loaned to the museum by the local inhabitants and serves to paint a lively picture of life in a thriving Victorian town which has had a market since 1128....
The museum tells the story of the town of Ludlow and includes some of the important events and the people who have lived and worked here; from Bronze Age farmers, through to the present day.
Visitors can also discover how Sir Roderick Murchison, t...
The small town of Much Wenlock is an unlikely place to search for the origins of the modern Olympic games, yet here in 1850 Dr. William Penny Brooks founded the Wenlock Olympian Society and the town's annual Olympian games. At the museum you can disc...
We are the Cambrian Railways Society, based in the Welsh-border market town of Oswestry. Formed in 1972, the group has spent the intervening period gathering an invaluable collection of artefacts from railways in the former Cambrian Railways Company ...
The museum is small but it is crammed full with things to see and do, and most importantly there are stories waiting to be heard. So we suggest you allow at least an hour for your visit, some people stay a lot longer.
The museum is suitable for ev...
Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery at Rowley's House occupies two adjoining buildings, one of which is timber-framed (originally built as a merchant's warehouse in the 16th or early 17th Century) and the other a stone and brick building built around 161...
The oldest parts of the Castle were built between 1066 and 1074, during the reign of William the Conqueror. There were additions over several centuries. Later, in the late 18th century, Thomas Telford remodelled the interior as a private house. The C...
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