The waterfront outside Portland Basin Museum. The new Museum is on two levels. Visitors enter on the upper level on which there is a representation of a 1920's street, featuring the furnished downstairs rooms of a typical terraced house, a school room, fish and chip shop, grocer's shop, pub and other settings. There are also displays and models showing the development of transport in the area. Part of one of the Museum's transport displays, showing moving boat and train models.
Admission is Free.
There is plenty of parking space in front of the entrance. There are signposts for pedestians from the centre of Ashton or the Museum can be reached via the canal towpath.