You'll find the museum on the canal side at Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne. Exhibitions on two floors tell the story of how the area developed alongside the canal and shows typical example's of life from the 1920's on a street including a house, shop, chippy, grocers, pawnbrokers and more. You'll also find a full working model canal with working model locks and boat rides on some real narrow boats along the canal.

Museum is open daily from 9am to 5pm except for Mondays when we close. We do, however, open Bank Holiday Mondays.

Portland Basin Museum
Portland Place
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL7 0QA

Telephone: (0161) 343-2878

Museum of the Manchester's

This museum, located in the Town Hall in Ashton-under-Lyne, tells the history of the 63rd and 96th Foot Regiments which later merged to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881. Including uniforms, a mock battle field, video's, meddles and much more. experience the sites and sounds of wartime Europe

Also at the Town Hall, Ashton-under-Lyne

Setantii

An exhibition telling the history of Tameside from the Celtic days to the present time. Feature attractions include a 15th Century Market, olden day figures, replica Armour and the Anderson air raid shelter.

Opening hours: Mon to Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat 10am - 1pm

Closed all day Sunday

Ashton Town Hall

Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 6DL

Telephone: (0161) 342-2254

The Astley Cheetham Art Gallery

Trinity Street

Stalybridge

SK15 2BN

Telephone:

(0161) 338-6767

The home of the Astley Cheetham Art Collection and periodical exhibitions of local work is a great place for the whole family to visit. Their relaxed attitude to noise and mess along with the permanent drawing table in the middle of the gallery there's a chance for everyone to explore art.

Blue Badge Guides in Tameside

Guiding you around the attractions of Tameside. Ray Hoerty and Roy Parkes take tours locally and regionally. If you want to see Tameside they can show you:

Busy market towns

Splendid churches like St Lawrence's, Denton and Ashton Parish Church

The Fairfield Moravian Settlement

Quiet hillside villages

Fascinating industrial heritage

Glorious countryside in the Pennine foothills with moorland, upland reservoirs, river valleys, canals and country parks.

Click here to visit the TMBC website for more information on these and more Tameside tours.