The way it used to be

Black Country Museum

Attraction (General)
in/near Dudley, Warwickshire,
England Heart Of Inc Birmingham

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Review added: 24/02/2006 00:34
By: Rincewind (£0.00 earned from reviews) Earn £££'s

"The Black Country, the industrial heart of the midlands has changed so much over the years that there is not much of the original area left apart from the people which it seams will never change.
The Black Counrty museum goes back to the "good old days" and shows us all how life used to be in this area.
I was last there just over a week ago, and it haden't changed much from when I was first there so many years ago, and thats what its all about.
The museum contains a number of buildings, saved brick by brick and rebuilt to show how life was in an earlier time. from an originial pub, with great food but beer that requires a strong stomach, to a forge where you can see the blacksmith at his trade.
My favorite has to be the coal mine, although my kids prefer the fair ground and laugh out loud at the school, kids dont know how well off they are !!
Every time we go we have a great time, riding on tram cars, watching silent movies and learning about a past that was harder but maybe better.
And please please dont forget the demos, see the way we used to make sweets, cut glass and do strange things to metal that you would not have thought possible."

Comments

It's amazing the way they shifted those entire buildings. When we visited last summer there was an exhibition on showing how much work it really was to get these important 'of the time' examples into the museum - it was a massive task and grossely underfunded, but haven't they done a fantastic job!

And yeah, I sooooo agree with you about the beer...