Gemma and I got the train from Northfield to Redditch, to visit the Needle Museum there. The visitor centre wasn’t open, but there was a little café selling coffee etc, and the museum was open.

There was an excellent textile exhibition, then three small galleries showing all different kinds of needles and how they were made.

We walked past the visitor centre, and across the field to some Abbey ruins which are nearby.  There were many dogs and families – all the labradors we saw had clearly been having fun in the stream!

Altogether a splendid day out!