Museum Talks and Walking Tours
Museum Talks and Walking Tours are available to book by societies, commercial organisations and community groups.
Museum Talks
– at the museum £60 (includes room hire, extra charge for refreshments)
– at a venue of your choosing £45 plus travel expenses
Choose one topic from the selection below. Talks are for a maximum of 30 people and last an hour.
- Cheshire’s Deserted Village
- An 18th Century Polymath
- The rise and fall of a Textile Industry
- Bradshaw House: A Place in History
- The Congleton Coin Hoards
- Collecting for a Museum
- Congleton, A Town of Surprises
- Railway Mania
- Created by Water
- Congleton’s Lost Buildings
- Civic Pride: Congleton’s Town Halls
- History From Local Sources
- Treasures beneath our feet
- A thoroughly Modern Woman
- Where Trains Would Run
Walking Tours
£100
Tours are conducted around Congleton Town Centre. You can choose one topic from the selection below. Tours are for a maximum of 30 people and last about one and a half hours.
- From Mansion to Cottage
- From Weaver to Wearer
- History on your Doorstep
- From Artisan to Patrician
- “Lambersloone” Routeways to the Past
- Throstle Nest by Tommy’s Brook
- Importance of Water
- Congleton and the Age of Enlightenment
- People and Places
- Retail therapy
- Discovering Congleton
- Changing Places
- Last Orders
- ‘A Community at War’
- ‘Where two or three are gathered together’
- The Art of Architecture
