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The Long Shop Museum

The Long Shop provides a lasting momento of the region’s history of manufacturing

Travel through the museum gates and into the past. Explore a history full of impressive, and sometimes eccentric, people, excellent inventions, and surprising stories. The Long Shop Museum reveals inspiring tales of enterprise and innovation.

Housed in the remaining buildings of Richard Garrett Engineering, the museum collections reveal remarkable information about the Garrett family, the local Suffolk folk that made the factory and its products world famous, and the impact on Britain of the agricultural and industrial revolutions!

The Long Shop itself was the world’s first workshop purpose built to house a production assembly line. Over a span of more than 240 years, engineers and craftsmen designed and built sickles and scythes, seed drills and steam engines, washing machines and threshing machines, trolley buses and dust carts! The company exported their products across the world and, as pioneers in the field of agricultural machinery, the Garrett family became figureheads and patrons of the local community.

The museum is open between March and November and offers visitors of all ages a fun, fascinating, and unique historical experience.

Check out the museum’s website for all the details you'll need to plan your visit.

www.longshopmuseum.co.uk

Attraction name:

The Long Shop Museum

Price:

https://www.longshopmuseum.co.uk/opening-and-admission/

Contact:

Email: info@longshopmuseum.co.uk, phone: 01728 832189

Address:

Main Street, Leiston, Suffolk IP16 4ES

Opening Hours:

https://www.longshopmuseum.co.uk/opening-and-admission/

How to get here:

Directions to The Long Shop Museum

Website:

www.longshopmuseum.co.uk