Lawnmower Museum in Southport - Something Completely Different

Problem
Where to go which will surprise the family - not like anything they've seen before?

Answer
The British Lawnmower Museum, in the north of England. It was started by an ex racing car driver with an interest in a family firm which repaired and still repairs lawnmowers, the company dating back to 1945. You might wonder who would be interested in lawn-mowers. However, gardening is one of the top interests in the UK (along with cooking, clothes and fishing and cars).

The museum also features lawnmowers of the famous, including Prince Charles and Diana.

Four fast facts:
1 Lawnmowers were patented by the inventor in 1830.
2 You can get spare parts for vintage machines.
3 You can hire an old lawn mower for a film (movie).
4 The shop sells: t-shirts; mugs; key-rings (one with a garden fork, another with a mini chainsaw, about £4.16 plus VAT); birthday cards; lawnmower magnets 42p excluding VAT; and a pre-paid ticket to the museum £3.33 exc VAT.

VAT
(I always wondered why some shops don't include VAT. It's something to do with the VAT man requiring VAT to be listed separately for tax purposes when an item is sold business to business and the VAT man wants to see what he is getting and from whom.

Tips
1 Check out your own brand of lawnmower before visiting. That will give you more interest in similar and fore-runner machines or the brand.
2 Check if your lawn mower is working or needs any spare parts.

http://lawnmowerworld.co.uk
106-114 Shakespeare Street
Southport
Merseyside
PR8 5AJ
Great Britain

Tel: +44 (0)1704 501336
E-Mail: info@lawnmowerworld.com

Sister Sites
www.lockandkeyworld.co.uk
www.carkeyworld.co.uk

Museum Open Times
9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
(Monday - Saturday)

Southport
Southport is a popular seaside resort, at least to people in that area of England, with Pleasure land and a miniature railway and model village. If you are in or near Southport and not blessed with a sunny day suiting sunbathing and sea and sand and water spouts and water sports and outdoor funfairs, The Lawnmower Museum would be a good place to go.
https://www.visitsouthport.com/things-to-do

Southport is north of London, but going south there's Poseidon Lacey, a National Trust Property. You can see half a dozen lawnmowers from Poseidon Lacey and more at other National Trust locations by looking at their website of collections and typing in the word lawnmower.
http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?SearchTerms=LAWNMOWER&Page=1

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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