00:00 Portland Basin Museum in Tameside in Greater Manchester is an exciting family-friendly
00:05 museum which focuses on the area's industrial heritage.
00:09 Built in the restored 19th century Ashton Canal warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne, the
00:14 museum houses an entire street where the sights and sounds of 1920s Tameside are brought to
00:20 life.
00:21 Step into the museum and you will be transported back 100 years.
00:26 Explore what a typical Greater Manchester house would have looked like.
00:29 Sit down for class at school or take a trip into the site's fish and chip shop and browse
00:33 the menu.
00:34 Portland Basin Museum allows you to fully immerse yourself in history, so take a peek
00:39 behind the blue door to get a glimpse of the past.
00:42 Over the last 100 years or so there's been obviously a lot of dramatic changes in people's
00:48 industrial lives and working lives as well.
00:51 Our museum helps to preserve bygone lives essentially and we do actively encourage people
00:57 to donate objects to us for our collections and with potential for it to go on display
01:04 in the future.
01:05 We've got our 1920s street so you can take a walk down an imagined street of 100 years
01:10 ago and explore what it was like to live in a two-up, two-down terraced house.
01:17 There's a school room, there's a pub, there's a pawnbroker's and grocer's so you can really
01:22 immerse yourself in 1920s Tameside and that's a big hit for our visitors as well.
01:26 So you can explore what it's like to go into an old-fashioned chip shop for example and
01:30 see what's on the menu.
01:32 You can take a peek inside the two-up, two-down house as well and see what the kitchen and
01:38 the living area was like.
01:40 So for example the kitchen was like the heart of the home with its big range and fireplace
01:46 and table so that was where families spent most of their time.
01:50 There's also the pub as well, we can go and see what a 1920s pub looked like.
01:54 It's a big wow factor I think when they first go in it because for a lot of visitors as
01:59 well it can evoke memories of what perhaps their grandparents' houses were like a long
02:06 time ago and perhaps their childhoods and experiences of life have changed over the
02:11 past and it's really nice to see the grandparents telling their grandchildren about what life
02:18 was like in the past and maybe what toys they played with and what it was like going to
02:22 school and what their fathers and mothers did around the house or what they did for
02:29 a living working in the mills or going down the mine, that sort of thing.
02:33 We've also got the made in Tameside industrial gallery which we're in now and that explores
02:39 the industries and the companies of Tameside.
02:42 There's the nuts and bolts area where children can get a bit of hands-on play time as well
02:48 with train sets and a market shop as well.
02:52 We're on the canal side where we've got the junction of three canals so you can always
02:57 combine a visit to the museum with a walk down the canals if the weather's nice as well.
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