| Event type: | Outing |
| Date: | 17th September 2024 |
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| Cost: | £35pp |
| Booking: | Note that booking is required. |
Departing times 8.50am (Abbey Fields)/9.00am (Clock) - Return 4.00pm
Due to the high level of interest in our September outing, we have been able to secure a larger coach. Anyone now interested in booking should complete the booking form (Click here) and send to the address at the bottom of the form, chosing which method of payment to use. Anyone having difficulty obtaining a form can contact Alison Lucas on 01926 858563.
If you are already on the waiting list you can now forward your payment.
This open-air museum offers visitors the opportunity to step back in time to experience the sights, sounds and aromas of the Black Country during 1850-1950. The tour is self-guided so visitors can do as much or as little as they want to.
There are over 80 reconstructed shops, pubs, houses, workshops and a school, many of them interactive, where you meet characters who will tell you what it was really like to live during that time.
What you can do:
- Take a ride round the site on one of the heritage vehicles
- Test your times tables in a 1912 school lesson - NB failure = Dunces cap
- Go underground for a glimpse of life as an 1850s miner
- Visit the type of individual shop now lost to us
- Watch a vintage film in our 1920s cinema
- Listen to 1950s vinyl in the record shop
- Enjoy some 1930s traditional recipe chips
- Indulge your sweet tooth with the 1950s inspired confectionary
- See live industrial demonstrations
Trips by canal boat through a network of tunnels are available at an extra cost.
You can take a picnic (weather permitting of course) and sit at the benches provided or visit the many cafes and pubs around the site.
Accessibility
The majority of the site is fully accessible to wheelchair users (wheelchairs can be hired with advance notice), with hard paths and access ramps and fully adapted toilets.
For more details about the Museum visit their excellent web site The Black Coutry Museum.