Had some family around at the weekend and, because it wasn’t the barbecue weather we’ve been promised, we took them to the free museum at Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne.  We’ve been before but knew they’d enjoy it.  But there were suprises in store for us too….. (more…)

It’s amazing what is on your doorstep – and what you never go to see – because we all tend to travel to be tourists, rather than be local tourists.  However, when my mum visited from Cornwall she went to the Portland Basin Museum in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside and urged us to take a look too – and we were delighted that we did. (more…)