On your own doorstep - Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

                                         

The Town House 15th Century style

Hello Everyone,

Isn't the weather glorious this week in the UK? Let's enjoy it and venture forth, (if or while we can afford it!) Lady M has got a bee in her bonnet about visiting local places. This week she has found her favourite  museum in the archives. She last visited it in 2017. Covid has a lot to answer for. 

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This week I would like to take you to the Avoncroft Museum near Bromsgrove. I have visited it a few times during the last thirty years and I remember my first visit when the shire horse, Lloyd, the one used in the banking adverts was stabled there. Since then, the museum has grown in size. Now it has a model railway and  The National Telephone Kiosk Collection as additions to its buildings. I just love the windmill, toll house, ice house and the prefab house, buildings which take you back to the past. In fact, when I first saw the prefab house in the early eighties I remember thinking that the bathroom was better than mine. Since then, I've had a new suite installed.

Anyway, on my recent trip I strolled round taking some pretty pics before enjoying lunch in the Edwardian tearooms and then wandering round the gift shop. I would like to share some of my pics with you. There is one place which always amuses me because I thought unisex conveniences were a modern thing... apparently not!
                                         

Yes, this is an 18th century convenience or earth closet where the family visited together. You learn something new every day.

The Mission church

Chimneys!

Part of the Telephone Kiosk collection

Toll prices pre M6 days!

The Toll house

So, if you would like to visit Avoncroft and view these buildings and others for yourself the website and details are www.avoncroft.org.uk  

How far is this site from my house? 18 miles. 

Until next week, have a fantabulous time

Love you all, Lady M xxxx