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The Ironbridge Gorge Museums
The Ironbridge Gorge Museums
The award winning family run Hundred House Hotel in Norton, is an ideal base to explore the Ironbridge Gorge Museums which are less than 10 minutes drive from the Hotel.
Ironbridge, south of Telford, was the Silicon Valley of the Industrial Revolution. In company with the Grand Canyon and the Taj Mahal, the Ironbridge Gorge is a World Heritage Site. The Iron Bridge was built by Abraham Darby in 1779.
There is a huge amount to see and do in Ironbridge. Ten distinctly different museums show how the ironbridge area lit the fuse to the Industrial Revolution.
Join the 'Victorian' townsfolk at Blists Hill Victorian Town as they go about their daily lives in the recreation of a small community at the end of Queen Victoria's reign. Find a cure for 'drunkenness' in the Chemist, talk about the 'latest' Paris fashions in the Drapers and discover how the Victorians crafted the household objects of the day. Make sure you visit the Bank, where you can exchange your modern money for old fashioned currency to spend in the town's shops and pubs.
In 2009, Blists Hill was transformed by incorporating a landmark Visitor Centre, a new street of shops – including a Post Office, Fried Fish Dealer, Draper’s Shop, Sweet Shop, Photographers and Artisans’ Quarter – a clay-mining experience and narrow gauge railway and an Incline Lift. Now Blists Hill has been long-listed by The Art Fund Prize 2010 and you can support their bid by visiting the Art Fund Prize web site at www.artfundprize.org.uk and then follow the "Vote for Your Favourite" link – it should only take about 30 seconds.
Visit the National Collections of Coalport and Caughley china displayed in the original riverside buildings at the Coalport China Museum. Children will love the nearby Tar Tunnel - don a hard hat and walk underground in a tunnel where an amazing source of natural bitumen was discovered 200 years ago.
Further information about Ironbridge and the Ironbridge Gorge Museums.
For MORE DETAILS & the route for a walk from the Hundred House to the Gorge click here.
