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A tall, weathered stone monument with carved figures, part of a garden ruin at Shugborough Estate, surrounded by trees and shrubs.

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Shugborough Estate – A Huge National Trust Day Out in Staffordshire

It had been around 40 years since I last visited Shugborough Estate. My rather vague memory of that visit involves a teddy bears' picnic, and I certainly don't remember appreciating just how enormous the place was. I do now!

A large machine with many dials and pipes on it, that produces electricity

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Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum – Is It an Accessible Family Day Out?

Our latest family day out took us to Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, where we found everything from fossils and steam engines to a Spitfire, giant eyeballs and a certain skull who somehow ended up being called Sam.

A view from the top of some stone steps, over the garden, with flowers, trees and hedges

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Exploring Biddulph Grange Garden: Tunnels, Stepping Stones, and Accessibility

We used our National Trust memberships to visit Biddulph Grange Garden in Staffordshire, We’d read it was a quirky Victorian garden, but it turned out to be a brilliant, immersive adventure—complete with secret tunnels, stepping stones, and hidden thematic "rooms" around every corner.

The entrance is a blue door with a painted sign next to it saying "the great city of Stoke-on-Trent with Emma Bridgewater"

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Pottery Painting at Emma Bridgewater

Come and join us as we spend a morning pottery painting at Emma Bridgewater.

A red-brick, two-storey Black Country cottage with two chimneys, seen from a wet cobbled path with wooden benches in front.

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A Family Day Out at the Black Country Living Museum: Accessibility, Costs & What’s New

A return visit to the Black Country Living Museum. What's changed since out last visit, before the Covid lockdowns.

A man's head appears to rest on a platter surrounded by Halloween pumpkins and candles, part of the 'head on a platter' illusion at Museum of Illusions Manchester.

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Museum of Illusions

We discovered how much vision affects how your brain interprets the world at the Museum of Illusions in Manchester

A green and red barge or houseboat travels along a canal, surrounded by lush trees and a grassy riverbank.

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Trip to the Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port

I hadn't visited the Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port since I was a child, so it was great to be able to make a return visit. I'd forgotten what a fun and interesting place it was to visit!

A colorful mural of The Beatles is painted on a brick wall. The band members are shown as outlines, each filled with a different solid colour.

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The Beatles Story

If you love The Beatles, then you'll want to visit The Beatles Story in Liverpool! If you have no vision at all though, you may want to take a guide with you...

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Thinktank, Birmingham

We love going to a museum where there's something for all of us to do, and that's exactly what we got when we went to the Thinktank in Birmingham.

Vintage Hawker Sea Fury military aircraft in flight, featuring camouflage and RAF roundel markings.

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RAF Museum Cosford

I think there's something fascinating about looking at aircraft, and marvelling at how something so big and heavy becomes airborne. At RAF Cosford we had the chance to view all kinds of different aircraft, of all different ages too.

A display of vintage toys on a pedestal, including Hamble, Jemima, Humpty, and Big Ted and Little Ted, set against a playhouse backdrop. They were on the preschool TV programme Playschool.

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Science and Media Museum

Reliving some childhood memories at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford.