Adoddy's Qype reviews
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Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1TZ
Adoddy
wrote on 29 January 2009
Although in a very imaginative building and surrounded by the Salford Quays whose regeneration is fabulous, this museum is just plain boring.
Most of the history on show is through read alone panels and very little comes through other media sources. This means that if you get bored easily by reading or you are distracted easily, then nothing you read goes in. You loose the plot and eventually nothing makes sense.
Not my cup of tea at all. -
Styal, Manchester, Greater Manchester SK9 4LA
Adoddy
wrote on 29 January 2009
As a National Trust member, I have visited this place many times over the years in the best and worst of weather. If its wet, the whole mill exhibition is indoors. You tour the mill from its founding days to see the old machinery still being put to use to make the cloth sold in the gift shop.
If the weather is good, there are lots of walks to follow through the country park.
At the end of the driveway, there is the apprentice house where the mill workers used to live. They were self sufficient from the garden which you can look around and guided tours give an insight into life during the industrial revolution.
Always some additional activities during school holidays and somewhere we keep going back to time and again.