Portland Basin Museum is full of quite awesome things, Social History on one floor of the beautiful large warehouse, and Industrial History beneath. A series of rooms shows what life was once like, from the inside of worker’s cottages to shops and chippies and pubs…I love these sorts of things, from the collections of old artifacts to the figures placed there in an attempt to bring scenes to life. I’m not sure that it works, we found the recorded humming of the seamstress and  chip shop worker rather terrifying. And yet…

 

Very cool. My favourite things though, the signs of yesteryear. This on the subject of women and drinking is my very favourite:

But they are all good…

The modern signs are pretty enjoyable as well:

And there is more awesomeness, like the bell rung to summon the Chartists of Hyde to meetings:

We came here to do some shopping, but I’m glad we wandered a bit, stared down streets with the moors rising up beyond them:

Wandered past the canals:

The shop is also full of brilliant local history publications…

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