Christmas Through Time at BCLM

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This week we made a return visit to the Black Country Living Museum. They’ve got quite a few things going on over the Christmas season, but we went specifically to look at Christmas through Time.

All the houses were decorated as they would have been in the time period they were from. For example, the 1940s prefab house had a Christmas tree that was a small branch from a tree, which was painted white, and had homemade decorations on it. There were also paper chains hanging up that were made from newspaper, as this was a time of rationing.

The one thing all the houses had in common was that they all had a fire roaring in the grate, which made that particular room where the fire was, nice and toasty warm. We definitely appreciated that as it was a chilly day!

We had the obligatory fish & chips fried in beef dripping while we were there. We cannot visit BCLM without having fish & chips! We certainly appreciated having them as they were nice and warm 🙂

In addition, there was also mulled wine available for the adults, from the pub, to also warm you up.

This was the first time we had visited BCLM around Christmas time and it’s something we’d definitely do again. Another visitor told us that it’s especially magical to visit there if it’s been snowing. That’s something to bear in mind for future visits too.