nowhere elysium
23.11.2024
Absolutely fascinating place to visit - I entirely recommend it if you have even a passing interest in manufacturing, machinery, sewing or local history.
Daria Yelshaieva
23.11.2024
Absolutely amazing place with a proper atmosphere, a lot of needles, lovely people, cute teenager swan😄 And a lot of interesting historical things about industry. I love time like this thank you 😊 ❤️
Susan Regan
12.11.2024
A lot of history involved in Forge Mill. Not just the making of needles but how involved the process was and to the detriment of the workers health. Very informative.
Trev „Wardie“ Ward
11.11.2024
Nice place to visit and have a walk
Paul Stokes
05.11.2024
Great place if you are interested in the era of Victorian industry. Also had a great museum based around the abbey attached to the site. Also lovely walks and a great little outdoors cafe. Plus friendly staff.
Sandria Scott
30.10.2024
Took the grandkids on the pumpkin trail. Small but well organised.
Aukse Augaityte
26.10.2024
Staff were absolutely lovely and attentive. Visited midweek, so not busy at all. Was possible to get hot drinks and sandwiches/cake and sit in the sheltered cafe. Parking signs a little confusing, as there's another parking before you enter the museum grounds.
Lynne Wardle-Ransom
25.10.2024
Great experience!
Caroline Cooke
19.10.2024
Lovely walk with the dog and fab being able to sit outside with a cup of tea and cake.
Julie Powell
15.10.2024
Such an interesting museum and the staff were very helpful.Theres a tea wagon selling drinks and snacks and lovely cakes.And you can sit inside the abbey to eat or outside on a sunny day.The exhibition on quilts was very good,this changes.And then you can look at the Abbey ruins and artifacts just at the other side of the gift shop
christopher edwards
02.06.2023
Great place to visit fantastic staff. Great for events as well highly recommend Olivia the young lady at the outside cafe was so polite and helpful
Roy Colling
28.09.2024
Fascinating museum
Ian Phillips
21.09.2024
Very friendly , nice coffee and cake
Theresa Thomson
17.09.2024
Very interesting. Amazed at the amount of work that is needed to make needles
Sam Tilley
17.09.2024
Fantastic local museum celebrating the rich history of Needle Making in the town
Demonstrations of how the needles are done throughout the visit
Eileen Simpson
17.09.2024
Fascinated insite to Victorian working conditions.
Kayleigh Houghton
11.09.2024
We went to the silent disco here and it was brilliant. Well organised, lots of space, food vans to get some food and drink. We will definitely book again next year!
Antoaneta D
06.09.2024
Interesting to know. Nice museum. Nice
Tom Dunn
27.08.2024
The old forge mill and monastery ruins. So much learn about the past. So much information we will need a second visit.
Emma Hempell
16.08.2024
Really lovely museum with local archaeology artifacts and history of the mill that was there. Beautiful setting with a lovely park for younger ones as well. They also have some fantastic pop up exhibitions such as the Star wars one at the moment.
Steve Pocklington
15.08.2024
Great museum and staff. This place is a gem.
Paul Taylor
12.08.2024
Nice interesting museum with helpful staff. Nice gardens with tea room and easy free parking
Andrew James
08.08.2024
Fascinating place.never knew how much went into making needles!
30 different processes. In there 1.5 hours.My wife watched the videos mesmerised. Good
Simone Measday
07.08.2024
I know a needle museum isn't for everyone but as an avid textile crafter i was really looking forward to this place, only to be very disappointed.
The museum itself seems very disjointed; there's no flow to the exhibits, and the way you are directed to start you come into the middle/end of the process. More disappointingly the tapestry display was completely covered over by a Star Wars memorabillia exhibit. Star wars has no connection to the mill, they've simply rented the space out to a collector. He seemed very knowledgable in the franchise but it wasn't what we were there for. He actually did more of a tour guide job for the museum than any of the people who actually work there!
However upon stepping into the next building to see the forge (through a door that said 'enter this way') we got yelled at by a very rude member of staff to say we shouldn't be in there. The waterwheel that ran the mill was covered over with a tarp, and there was ugly herris fencing blocking off another building without explanation.
The 'cafe' is in fact a mobile coffee trailer/wagon. Nice cake etc.
The grounds seemed to be a public park used more by young families for the playground which made sense as it was free to park and it seemed like it was free to enter the playpark. This would explain why we only managed to get the last space in the car park but were the only visitors in the museum.
This place needs a good makeover, someone to come in and make the exhibits coherent and so you can actually learn. I can imagine many a schoolchild being bored out of their minds on school trips here.
And i'm still none the wiser how they sharpen needles, however saw 3 different exhibits on how to punch the eye in a needle. Halfway there i suppose.
Radim Kracmera
04.08.2024
Interesting museum of needels.
James Knight
23.07.2024
This is a really nice hidden gem that is not spoken of enough. Lovely buildings set in wonderful open countryside with small lakes, a small river that keads to the river arrow, great walks, the remains of a 12th century abbey and loads of history. There are picnic events and live music here most months.
Ghosts Of Redditch
08.06.2016
Interesting place with the Bordesley Abbey Visitors Centre and the Abbey ruins
Simon New
26.06.2024
Great lace very peaceful pretty interesting too