Editor Pick
Ordsall Hall Museum
- April 22, 2008
- Rated 4 of 5 by
tvordj from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
This is a little off the beaten track and a lot of people who live in Manchester don't even know it's there. Ordsall Hall is a manor house, parts of which date back to medieval and Tudor times though other parts of it have been altered over the years. It's on the Salford side of the Irwell, not too far from a tram stop (Exchange Quay on the Eccles line). Any bus that is heading to Salford Quays will come close, if you get off by the Copthorne Hotel and walk about 200 yards) but busses 71, 73, 84 and 92 stop right outside the hall.
It's free to visit and you might even see one or two of the staff dressed in Elizabethan period costume as I did when I visited there. There are often groups from local schools and they have activities for kids on as well.
The upper floor often has some exhibition from local artists and photographers which is also interesting.
They are open between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays, closed on Saturday and open on Sundays just in the afternoon after 1 p.m. There is a tiny gift shop area and no cafe though there's a hot drink machine.
From journals
Manchester Tips and Tricks,
Warwick and Manchester (2001)