Ideas for April
( museum opens 4 April for 2012 season, please check website for opening days and hours)
Just a short bus journey from the city centre is the village of Ruddington and there you will find the Ruddington Frame Work Knitters Museum, a chance to step back in time and find out a little about the lives of the people who worked there. Also housed at the museum are a collection of sock/stocking knitting machines which you can actually get to have a go on.
Description taken from The Ruddington Framework knitters Museum Site
'Step back in time. Come and see this unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages and outbuildings arranged around a garden courtyard, together with a former chapel in which many of the knitters worshipped. The site has been restored to show the living and working conditions of the framework knitters who occupied it throughout the nineteenth century.'
Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum is a small independent working museum, established by the efforts of the local community, which saved it from the bulldozer and put it under the control of a charitable Trust.
A cottage has been restored to show the typical living conditions and the use of various tradtional crafts including rag rug and quilting.
I have a soft spot for places like this and will be visiting again this year, maybe with my spinning wheel in tow :-)
Sue x
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