Museum Talks and Walking Tours

Museum Talks and Walking Tours are available to book by societies, commercial organisations and community groups. Ian Doughty will usually conduct your talk or walking tour. Ian is one of the founders of Congleton Museum and is its voluntary Collections Manager and Chair of Trustees.. He is passionate about the local area and has an extensive knowledge of Congleton, its history and the museum’s collections.

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 18^th 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