Visit to National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port

[Québec]

Dashing down the M53 from Liverpool yesterday afternoon, decided to follow the sign to the National Waterways Museum which is literally just off the motorway. It was 4pm (they shut at 5) so they kindly let me in for half price -so I added a bit as a donation. It was lovely to see the boats, and the buildings, and the machinery, and the history, and the restoration work,etc. But I did seem to have the place entirely to myself except for the staff. I hope that was not typical of the average daily attendance. Do visit if you can.

 

 

[lostnortherner]

I visited about a month ago, and I'd estimate there was no more than a dozen others there. As you say, the boats and so forth were lovely, but I did feel the site lacked a little... life? It was just like a ghost town. The boats that were supposedly available to view were deserted, and the trip boat wasn't running.

 

Sadly, the highlight of the day was watching someone making a pigs ear of getting into the narrow locks down to the basin, and getting wedged in the entrance, and against the trip boat, and just trying more and more revs - presumably trying to move the walls?