Dock Museum
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Built over a Victorian Graving Dock, the museum will take you on an extraordinary journey through the lives of the people who transformed what was a small farming village at the beginning of the 19th century into a major industrial town. Their story is a fascinating record of perseverance and good humour, of... more details >
PDF Size: (1.58 Mb)
Dove Cottage The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery
Grasmere
In 1799 William Wordsworth went on a walking tour of the Lake District with his friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He fell in love with Grasmere and Dove Cottage and within a few months he had set up home here with his sister, Dorothy, to live the life of a poet, at one with his surroundings.
PDF Size: (1.68 Mb)
Laurel and Hardy Museum
Ulverston, Cumbria
PDF Size: (722 Kb)
Millom Folk Museum
Millom
The Folk Museum in Millom is a truly 'local' museum, covering the important development and decline of the iron mining and steel making of the Millom area over the last 150 years.
Displays include a full scale reconstruction of a drift mine from the Hodbarrow Iron Ore Mine, and a miner's...
more details >
PDF Size: (576 Kb)
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
Ravenglass, Cumbria
The Railway runs for seven miles (11.3 kilometres) from the Lake District National Park's only coastal village of Ravenglass in the Western Lake District, through hidden Miterdale, to the grandeur of the Eskdale valley. The terminus at Dalegarth for Boot - home to our new visitor centre - nestles at the foot... more details >
PDF Size: (2.26 Mb)