Pump House: People's History Museum (Manchester)

I picked up the brochure in a coffee shop and thought it would be a good day out, it surely was. The People's History Museum, in Manchester, is a window on how the working class changed the face of work, voting and industry in the United Kingdom, over 200 years. When we arrived the extremely helpful receptionist handed us the informative pamphlet and suggested we go first to the video room to find out what the museum is all about. From there we went into the exhibitions and learned about the cotton industry, union meetings, the suffragetes fight to get the vote for women, the Craft Union, the Co-operative Union and many other trials ...  Read the complete review

On Saturday i paid my first visit to the pump house museum, to see and exhibition about Every St,manchester,that being the street that i was born on and lived on for 16 years. The admission was £1.00 for adults and free for children. We were greeted by one of the most friendliest men i have ever come across who explained the full layout to us, where everything was. The exhibits them selves were marvellous. Photographs of people and places i had not seen for over 20 years,pictures of my school and teachers, one of my class teachers had even saved the excuse notes from mothers whose children had been absent from school, all names i recognised.it was obviously ...  Read the complete review