SHREWSBURY CASTLE & THE SOLDIERS OF DISCOVER DAYS TO SHROPSHIRE MUSEUM Shrewsbury Castle houses the REMEMBER WHEN spectacular collections of the Soldiers of Shropshire Museum, including pictures, uniforms, medals, YOU TRAVEL BY TRAIN weapons and other equipment from the 18th century to the present day, charting the Evolution of the British KENILWORTH CASTLE AND Army over nearly 300 years. ELIZABETHAN GARDEN Discover 900 years of English MUSEUM OF CARPET AKAMBA HERITAGE CENTRE history at Kenilworth Castle The only museum in the UK A garden centre like no other, and Elizabethan Garden. With dedicated to carpet and carpet offering an exciting range of cold a vast medieval fortress and making, this venue firmly places hardy exotic plants including spectacular castle ruins, featuring Kidderminster on the map of ferns, palms, bamboos and arbours, fountains, an aviary and important industrial heritage sites perennials - from seedling to a magnificent array of plants, this in the UK. The museum includes mature specimens. In addition garden is breathtaking. a collection of machinery and to the fantastic array of plants, around 3,000 carpet designs, you can visit the Tribe restaurant, MUSEUM OF THE where you can experience JEWELLERY QUARTER many by significant designers BATTLE OF WORCESTER such as Charles Voysey, Edouard authentic Caribbean food. CITY CENTRE TRAIL This remarkable museum tells Glorget and Bernat Klein. The Battle of Worcester in 1651 the story of the Jewellery was one of the largest land Quarter and Birmingham’s SUTTON COLDFIELD battles ever fought in England; renowned jewellery and HERITAGE TRAIL a conservative estimate of metalworking heritage. Explore Sutton Coldfield is steeped in the numbers suggests the this extraordinary time capsule history with many of its buildings Parliamentarians outnumbered the on a lively guided tour, watch live telling the story of the town. The Royalists by 28,000 to 12,000. The demonstrations at the jewellers’ Sutton Coldfield Civic Society action raged over the fields and bench to discover the traditional has devised a Heritage Trail so hills to the south of Worcester and skills of this fine trade, and get a that you can learn more about culminated with street fighting unique glimpse into the working this fascinating town. The trail in the city centre. This trail is life in the Jewellery Quarter. includes stops at Holy Trinity concerned with the last part of the Tower, Bishop Vesey’s School, BIRMINGHAM BACK TO BACKS Battle and begins at Fort Royal. the Art School, Town Hall, Sutton THE COFFIN WORKS Step back in time at Birmingham’s Coldfield Railway Station, Holy Travel back in time to enter a last surviving court of back to Trinity Church, and many more. 1960s time capsule where the backs; houses built literally sounds of the day mingled with back-to-back around a communal the industrial noises of a working courtyard. Moving from the 1840s factory. You truly experience how through to the 1970s, discover this old Jewellery Quarter firm once the lives of some of the former operated on a day-to-day basis, residents who crammed into these producing some of the world’s small houses to live and work. finest coffin furniture, including the With fires alight in the grates, fittings for the funerals of Churchill, and sounds and smells from the COVENTRY CATHEDRAL Chamberlain and the Queen Mother. past, experience an evocative and AND ST MARY’S GUILDHALL intimate insight into life at National Located in the city’s historic LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL Trust’s Birmingham Back to Backs. Cathedral Quarter, St. Mary’s Welcome to Lichfield Cathedral, Guildhall miraculously survived where you can discover over the Second World War bombing 1,300 years of history in the only raids, and stands as a monument to medieval three-spired cathedral the power and wealth of medieval in the UK! See a medieval wall Coventry. With magnificent painting, the famous Herkenrode interiors, collections of armour, stained glass, the Lichfield historic furniture, artworks and Angel and much more. internationally important tapestries, the Guildhall offers a window into WALSALL LEATHER MUSEUM Coventry’s glorious past. WINTERBOURNE HOUSE 2 X OAK HOUSE MUSEUM AND GARDEN 1 Celebrating the great achievements of local leather craftsmen and Oak House in West Bromwich Escape the modern world by women, this museum tells the is a delightful half-timbered exploring an Edwardian historic story of the Walsall leather yeoman farmer’s house built house with period rooms filled trade. The museum has displays in approximately 1630. The with antiques and soft furnishings featuring splendid examples of house is set in its own grounds from the era, then stroll around the historic craftsmanship and exciting with a children’s playground beautiful gardens containing more contemporary designs. available to visitors. than 6,000 different plant species. For more information regarding opening times and pre-booking requirements, visit makeitwm.com/adventures-by-train Discover the region’s heritage by train Enjoy 2 for 1 entry at Winterbourne House and Garden when you travel by train! Visit www.winterbourne.org.uk/wmr241/ T&Cs apply If you’re looking to go a little further afield why not visit Dudley Zoological Gardens and Castle, home to some of the world’s rarest and most exotic animals, the Black Country Living Museum where you can wander around the open-air museum visiting original shops and houses or a visit to Dudley Canal Trust where you experience over 420 million years in 45 minutes! 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