The exhibits relate to local interest and history. John Taylor Bellfoundry Museum is a truly unique museum and visitor experience. The museum contains a record of bell founding from the earliest times. This is situated alongside the working factory, which still produces and restores bells for customers from all over the world. John Taylor bells are to be heard on every continent.
Visitors can see many of the production processes, on specially conducted works tours.
Great Central Railway takes you on an eight mile long trip by steam train along the route of the last main line to be built in England at the end of the Victorian era. The Great Central once linked the cities of South Yorkshire and the East Midlands to London. The restored railway boasts especially fine period stations at Quorn and Rothley. The Carillon and War Memorial is situated in Queen's Park, just behind the busy Market Place and shopping area, the Carillon was built in 1922 as a War Memorial. It houses 47 bells, crafted by the local John Taylor Bellfoundry, and its tones can be heard during the regular Thursday and Sunday afternoon concerts in the summer months.