So Tuesday and Wednesday involved a visit to Bexhill on Sea to visit the old folks and what better activity to take part in - a nice gentle wander around Battle (not the Abbey unfortunately as it's nearly £8 each to get into and the olds thought that was too much to spend from the pension pot - fair point, come on English Heritage it's up to you to make it appeal to a wider audience).
Battle is a pretty little town in East Sussex steeped in history and character property. Unfortunately it's high street is split by a major road and the traffic is intense and never ending. Anyway, we decided that their budget could stretch to spending a couple of hours wandering around the Yesterdays World museum (at £6 pp to get into).
What a great place!! As long as you don't get offended by the occasional historical trinket being in the wrong time slot, it's a wonderful place to mooch around, reliving the memories of products and lifestyles gone by.
It's not somewhere that the hard of movement should be visiting as it's set on approx 3-4 floors with lots of steep stairs and dim lighting.
Hundreds of genuine original bits and bobs from shop packaging, to clothing to
medicinal bottles and soooo much more line the walls. There are a few buttons to press on the way around with commentary coming out of hidden speakers.
I have 2 critisisms - 1, the lighting in places is too dim. A few more bulbs would definitely be appreciated. 2, The Royal room is something they've obviously spent some money on recently and has been quite well done but was like a sauna in there and the music over the commentary video was too much.
Surprisingly for the centre of a busy town, the layered garden was beautiful. There's a good sized cafe overlooking the fields and hills behind and a garden that if it wasn't raining and i had kids, would be have fantastic to spend some more time in.
I could write an awful lot more but overall I'm going to let you make your own minds up. My recommendation is go. You'll enjoy it.
Yesterdays World, Battle, East Sussex
