Destination Guide Refined by Monument + Museum Attraction Arts (7) Sightseeing + Tours (5)
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Stockport Vernon Park Museum Turncroft Lane, Offerton, Stockport, Vernon Park, Manchester, SK1 4AR |
This award-winning Victorian museum in a pleasant suburban park setting - yet just a few minutes walk from Stockport town centre - covers the history of the local area from the Stone Age right up to the present day. Ther... more
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Wigan Pier Trencherfield Mill, Wigan, WN3 4EF |
The origin of the town's name is mysterious - there is no reference to it in the Domesday Book. During the Civil War, the town was fiercely Royalist, for which support King Charles II presented Wigan with a sword bearing... more
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Stockport Hat Works Museum Wellington Mill, Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK3 0EU |
Hat Works, the UK’s only museum of the hatting industry, is housed within the Grade II listed Wellington Mill, built by Thomas Marsland in 1828. This was one of the first mills in the area with a ‘fire proof&... more
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Salford Museum & Art Gallery Peel Park, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU |
This imposing museum is of particular interest for its recreation of a typical northern street at the turn of the century - complete with local pub, chemist's shop, Victorian parlour and worker's cottage. It also houses ... more
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Macclesfield Silk Museum The Heritage Centre, Roe Street, Macclesfield, SK11 6UT |
Silk Heritage Museum From Macclesfield town centre, follow the brown and white tourist signs marked Heritage Centre. Roe Street is off Churchill Way. There is ample parking in the adjacent public car parks. The Silk Indu... more
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Ellen Road Engine Museum Elizabethan Way, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 4LG |
One of the few original mammoth steam mill engines still operating in the country, Ellen Road Engine House is a national heritage centre that allows you to experience the awesome...
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Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum Maclure Road, Rochdale, Manchester, OL11 1DN |
As well as the more usual items of fire service memorabilia, the Museum has on display insurance fire marks, relics from the Manchester Blitz in 1940, and items relating to such historical fire service figures as James B... more
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National Museum of Labour History Abingdon Street, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD |
. The museum broadened the range of material it collects to cover the wider social history of all working people. Additions in recent years are the Employment Department collection from the government's Employment Servic... more
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Rochdale Pioneers Museum 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale, Rochdale, OL12 0NU |
****The Massive Movement that Grew from Rochdale's Tiny Store This is very special to us - this hallowed ground. With these words a visitor from the United States summed up the reason why hundreds of international visito... more
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Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum Bolton Rd, Bury, Bury, BL8 2PL |
Trying to find any information about Bill O Brien Corps of Drums Fighting Fifth and also after amalgamation he was in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Lost touch with him about 1966 '67 after we visited him in Sutton Col... more
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