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Thanks for the video. I will be in Moreton in Marsh and Worcester in September. (From Texas) Unfortunately I won't have access to a car and would take too long by train and bus and walking. I love checking out the wonderful little museums in England

Been in the Elizabethan house before, the displays are quite different. The conspiracy room when I went in the house had a couple of mannequins in 17th century clothes sitting at the table. If you like this house, there is a similar but bigger house in Ipswich called the Christchurch mansion.

Another vlogg which is interesting always a blessed happy utube lady have a great 👍 life always

The graphic design nerd in me LOVES seeing old packaging 🥰 and the sewing nerd in me would live to explore there!❤

I love your videos. I am a poorly person and dont go out much at all. You take me places, so thsnk you very much

I visited St Fagans yesterday (South Wales) it's worth a visit. FREE entrance but £7 to park. There's LOTS to see and quite spread out so need a good few hours. Have a Google 👍

Love the needle museum went to visit in the late 90s so interesting.

Ok. I clicked on this just out of curiosity. Who knew it would be so interesting! Thank you. I enjoyed that. Looking forward to more 👍

Hello Lucy. I visited there several years ago. I'd seen the sign for years - I'd say decades - and often wondered what it was. So one day I decided to go and have a look. Like you, I was absolutely fascinated. I looked at the Abbey ruins, the visitors' centre and the museum and, also like you, I was almost alone. I suppose that a needle museum doesn't sound overly exciting but it is actually very interesting. It's definitely somewhere I'll always be happy that I took the time to visit.

I would like the doll's house. I'd like the squirrel's tea party , if they weren't actually real squirrel's.

I shall cherish my old needle's now as l know how dangerous it could be to make them .

My aunt lived in Redditch, l visited there a few time's with my mother. Nice place as l remember. My other aunt lived in Great Barr , my cousin and her husband still do .

Thank you for your videos. I love watching them. Just perfect!!

This is wonderful. Love the qualifications for workers--but the short lives of pointers: truly sad reality. You've done a fine job in presenting two fascinating sites to others. Thank you.

This was so very interesting. Just things we take for granted. Thanks for opening my mind and peeking my curiosity. Love your enthusiasm.

Great video, Thank you for showing this, fascinating history.

Hi Lucy! So glad you got yourself a ham & cheese toastie and were able to sit a bit and enjoy! Oh my goodness…..I watched Nowhere Boy…bawled my eyes out!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I thought it was really really good, and the casting and music was superb! I hope you are enjoying your week so far, perhaps contemplating where your next tour is going to be? I was thinking, have you ever visited the Camden area in London - Amy Winehouse’s hood when she was growing up also she performed many of her gigs there yes? I’ve seen the statue that was built to memorialize her. In a video, not in 3D. I thought it was AWFUL, it didn’t depict her at all….my opinion. Have a great week, take care!💕Linda

That was such an interesting video, thank you so much for the way you have included lots of history bits and made it come to life. Glad I found your channel. 😊😉

I stumbled on this museum last summer - a little gem! And one of those questions you never knew you needed yep the answer to - how do they get the eye in a needle.

This is great! Would love to visit. Some of my ancestors were listed for many years as fish hook makers in Redditch. Surname of Irish.

That was a hidden gem 📌🧷💉

Amazing how much hard work went into such small objects that would taken for granted. Thanks for introducing us to these people who basically gave their lives for our convenience.

I learn something new every time you share a video! Definitely not silly, enjoying every one❤ I’d love to see what the high streets, where average people shopped or worked. If you have anything like that to share. I’m finding many of my ancestors were butchers or clothiers and hatters. Your videos have given me an idea of what their lives might have been like. Thanks you

I didn't know know about the Abbey, my husband would have loved to see the ruins as well as me. I forgot to say he found the needle museum as interesting as me. I haven't watched your videos for a while, but always enjoy them when they pop up on Utube.

I've been there many years ago, it was very interesting.

Thanks for another great video, Lucy, and bringing awareness to an often overlooked part of our social history!

Just had your channel pop up in my feed & love this! This museum is on my list for if I ever get back to the UK--a user of needles, love old industrial equipment & processes & appreciate the more out of the way sites. Thank you!

You have the most beautiful spirit!! I really enjoy your channel. I never thought of how important the needle has been before your video. And the ruins are so impressive. Thank you!

Hi Lucy, it's Heather from Iowa USA. This was a perfect video!!! How random that you had no idea all of that it existed, just 10 miles from your home!!!!😮 I LOVE kitchy and random come upon these places that are right there all along ❤ As I've mentioned before my mom was always curious about life, our family genealogy and people. How we can touch the past, and the people, by learning, being quiet and always being respectful. When you think about just turning the door knob or the railing on the stairs. Just pausing to reflect. To think of any or all of those that have gone before, honors and acknowledging them, I feel, that in those spaces, they are alive just in the moment. What a gift!!! Here's a random side note, one day my grandma told us we were going for a ride. As per what we did on the weekends we would visit family members or just my grandparents friends. Usually me and I loved that!! Squirrel. So on one of the drives, no other info given to us. We ended up at the SaraLee factory and bakery!!! Totally random right!?! So we toured and learned ALOT. It was super neat! And before leaving, she bought a lot of bakery items. I still to this day don't how she knew that was even there, like early to mid 80's ok going to let you go. Love always your friend Heather from Iowa USA. And the SMELLS!!! We all joked that we were full from the smells! But rapidly receiving a bakery item!!! Amazing.

I’m in the middle of the US, and I have one of those needle books. I bought a large, fully packed 1930’s sewing basket at a thrift store here in Omaha Nebraska about 5 years ago and it contained one of those needle books you showed in the case! I have kept the contents of the basket intact, I just enjoy it, I go looking through it every once in a while. I’m fascinated by your video. I love history (and sewing, and thrifting!)

Thank you for the tour.I love history also.

People don’t realize how hard it was to even get needles and how relatively expensive metal needles were. During colonial times in the States, housewives jealously guarded her metal needles. If she dropped one the world ground to a halt as she scoured the floor for it. They were far superior to the cheaper bone needles, expensive, and could be hard to come by if you were living rurally. Interesting museum, added to my England Museum list!!!

Thank you for another interesting video I’m just sat here thinking what it was like when the sewing machine was invented what a boom that must have been I have a vintage singer in my attic I have no idea how it works but I can imagine the change it made when they were invented

I love the little odd glimpses into the everyday life necessities of the past. We have so much info about the upper classes, but so little on the everyday person. It really makes things like this little needle museum so precious.

Thank you for sharing these small but yet significant places. I do not live in England, but I am slowly making a list of places I would like to visit. Your manner always builds enthusiasm, and curiosity for the viewers!

After sewing a medieval wedding dress in velvet for a friend, I kept one of the needles I found in her mum's pincushion. If you can have a favorite handsewing needle, that was mine. I used it for about 8 years, even brought it with me to Mexico when I moved here. I was gutted when it finally gave up. Never had one like it, and I've been sewing for 50 year. Now I go through a packet a year of what's available here, and dang if I don't still miss that one. Wish I could go back in time and grab a couple of packets of what was clearly a superior product. I'd definitely visit the museum too, I love charming old packaging!

Loved it. And well done for bringing it to your audience. I had heard of the Needle Museum but not the Abbey.

One of my ancestors worked there, I went to the museum a while ago and saw the spot she worked in and it had her name on the chair. Many other members of my family were fish hook makers in and around Redditch.

I loved this! When I was 16 and wanted to learn how to sew, my grandmother gave me her collection of hand sewing needles that she used when she was a young mother (circa 1950s). They are all still in their original packaging, and every package notes that they were made in Redditch, England. My grandmother was raised by a single mother on a dairy farm in the US and, so far as I know, never once stepped foot in the UK, so I always vaguely wondered how she got hold of so many needles from so far away. Very few of her possessions from that period of her life were made overseas. It’s very cool to find an answer to that little mystery. Plus, your video brought back some happy memories of my grandma. I still use these needles all the time - I even brought them all with me when I immigrated to Australia - because they are such excellent quality. The quality of the needle matters a LOT if you do a lot of sewing; lower-quality needles bend easily, have a lot of friction when you push them through cloth, are hard to thread, and are not ergonomic to hold. But my English needles are extremely stiff, despite being very thin, and they are buttery smooth to sew with and thread. From what I have gathered, there are still a handful of manufacturers making modern needles that are on par with vintage English needles, but they can be hard to find (I never see them in physical shops, only in specialist online shops) and they are quite expensive - several times more expensive than what my grandmother paid for her needles, even after correcting for inflation.

Wow Lucy I never heard of this place either. That was so interesting and I shall never look at another needle in the same way again. This was a real eye opener (pardon the pun) thank you so much for all the places you take me as I can’t go. As you say let’s be thankful to all the men and women of the past for what they gave us. 🥰

My mother born in 1919 had several of those needle packets in her sewing box. I have one and it says made in England. I also love that industrial smell.

Thank you, what an amazing museum! Just been reading about the Rajah Quilt, made in 1841, probably with needles made in that factory.

It’s a great place for a little break . I loved it as a kid and it’s hardly changed. I take my grandkids to the very rides I loved and it’s heartwarming. My family live nearby so I go all the time. Did you notice the Dutch influence of the buildings?

Hi Lucy, new sub here. I live in Great Yarmouth and would like to say Thankyou for this video. To many GY bashers out there. A lot of money has been and is continuing to be spent here. The Winter Gardens will soon be once again the pride of the seafront. Take care

Hello gorgeous your looking nice thank you for your interesting program about needles as I did not know about how they were made and how many different needles there were made by for now all the best Fini xxxx

Come on, hands up, how many people have a pack of needles in their home? I don't think I've ever bought a needle in my life. My mum was a dressmaker, but I have to say, I'm part of the throw away generation. I haven't got the time and patience for mend and sew.

Where on earth did that place come from? Have to say I loved this video and I’m going to have to go and see it now! I also watched a good 8 minutes of adverts… I’m that nice! X

I like that you visit places local to you. I suspect that you're discovering much more to do and see in your area now that you're actively looking for them. Those places need support and maybe a little talking up, which is what you're doing. I'm sure they appreciate it if they know about it. You're highlighting the local attractions. It's better, in my opinion, than if you were only going to the big estates and castles. They've already been done to death. The little obscure places are more interesting, and usually they have more of a connection with regular working class people.

A needle museum?! 😻😻😻 Honestly, no- you don’t really think about things like this until you are afforded the opportunity to learn about it, and I’m so glad I could see it. Loved learning about the workers, even if briefly. Do tell though, how did it smell?