Blists Hill Victorian Town

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This was our first visit to Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire, and we were really impressed with the accessibility of this museum.

There is a charge to park, however blue badge holders can park for free. Normally when we visit places, the disabled person has to pay to go in and the carer goes in for free. However, here it is the other way around - the carer pays and the disabled person goes in free. This worked in our favour as it meant for us, we only paid for me.

Once we had paid we were given a disabled access booklet that was really detailed as it gave accessibility details for every exhibit there, which we found to be really useful.

The shops were really interesting and we especially enjoyed the sweet shop and the fish & chip shop, with the fish & chips fried in beef dripping!

There is a steep hill in the middle of the town, which has an incline lift for wheelchair users. Unfortunately, on the day we visited the incline lift was not working, so we attempted the hill with George’s chair. There were some gravelly bits on the hill, which George’s chair kept sliding on, so we ended up using the chair as a manual chair. Fortunately for me, a very kind passer-by helped me get the chair down the hill. I was not looking forward to pushing the chair back up but, luckily for me, George was able to get the chair back up by himself, by putting it on full speed and just going for it, while John and I tried to keep up! We were offered the option of moving the car from the main car park at the top, to the staff car park at the bottom, but we bravely (or stupidly) decided to tackle the hill ourselves.

It was a really enjoyable day out and we would definitely visit again.