Black Country Living Musuem

 

Black Country Living Museum in the West Midlands as you leave the 21st century behind for the day and experience sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the Black Country as you explore rebuilt, replica or recreated shops, houses and industrial workshops.

 

Saturday 12th April 2025

£45 Adult

£44 Senior (65+)

£36 Child (3-15 years)

 

£20 Non-refundable deposit holds your place, final payment due at least 60 days prior.

 

*Includes return coach travel and entrance ticket into the Black Country Living Museum.

 

There’s plenty for everyone to get stuck into, including:

 

• Talking to costumed characters bringing history to life

• Heading underground for a glimpse of life as an 1850s miner

• Testing your times tables in a 1912 school lesson

 

Mine experience

Mind yer ‘ed! Descend ‘into the thick’ of our underground drift mine and hear what ‘Elija Wedge’ has to tell you about the world of an 1850s Black Country coalminer.

 

940s-1960s High Street

Experience the hustle and bustle of our new high street! Meet new historic characters, spot vintage transport and listen to the Talking Clock in our 1960s telephone box.

 

Lea Road Infant Welfare Centre

Meet our brand new midwife and health visitor as they share how expectant and new mothers were helped in early motherhood.

 

Cast Iron Houses

From the austerity of 1940s Britain to a nation gripped by football fever in the 1960s, travel back two decades in just a few footsteps in our reopened Cast Iron Houses.

 

Industrial Quarter

Explore how industry in the Black Country changed through the decades, with stories in living memory about the advancements in industrial development and the impact of migration.

 

The Locksmith's House

Discover an atmospheric Edwardian house, our sister museum in Willenhall where time has stood still.

 

 

Details of the Day,

 

- Travel to Black Country Museum (No toilet stop) - 1 hour, 20 Minutes from Brackley

 

- Entrance to Museum

 

- Depart at 16:00 / 16:30 - return home, via Brackley first.