Hinckley and District Museum

Heritage Open Day: Visit the last surviving thatched timber box frame cottages in Hinckley, dating from the 1680s, which house a museum of local history. The roof was re-thatched 2014/5 with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Once lived in by framework knitters you can see a stocking frame of c.1740. New for 2015 are displays on the local men at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and at Gallipoli (1915); old Hinckley in photographs and objects; the Barwell Meteorite; the re-thatching of the cott

Fri 11 Sep:1000-1600. Sat 12 Sep:1000-1600. Sun 13 Sep:1400-1700. Free Entry. For more information and last-minute updates, please visit the Heritage Open Days website

Framework Knitters` Cottages, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 1QU

Fri 11 Sep to Sun 13 Sep 2015

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