Queenborough Guildhall Museum — Attraction in Borough of Swale

"Oh, we're just on the point of closing" & they shut the door in my face. Sign said "closes 5:00, last admission 4:30". It was 4:15. Do you even want my 50p admission fee (it being so cheap is the only reason I didn't give it 1 star) or not?

Queenborough doesn't seem to mind being a really depressing place. The bus to the town drops you off at a retail park & the road into the town centre goes through fields separated from the road by barbed wire, but bearing no other sign that anyone remotely cares about them. It is a tedious walk. Queenborough is not a town, it is three thousand people who all happen to reside near one another while seeming to begrudge that fact. Trust in one's neighbours is a foreign concept, to the point where what little money the town does have seems largely to get spent on domestic surveillance hardware, which abounds on every street, to record one's next-door neighbours as they walk to & from their home. It cannot help having Peel Ports as a major local employer. Peel Ports tend to take the lion's share of the money they make away with them to Manchester and do not invest it in the vicinities of their premises. Another Peel Ports town, Bootle, is in one of the direst states of any urban area in the country despite the millions of pounds of cargo that pass through on the...

A place steeped in so much history of Queenborough from the local people, its naval origins & its involvement during the World Wars. The history & articles collected over the years by the lady that runs it (27 years) is truly remarkable everything you want to know about Queenborough is there in that building. With some great displays & even a jail. Honestly you could be there all day reading & seeing everything. Opens only on Saturday afternoons 2- 5pm (last entrance 4.30) to see so much & what has been done here for just for 50p entrance fee ( should be more ) a truly remarkable place & building and lovely ladies who care for it. If you look outside to the left on the building there is even a Queen Victoria Post box still used today. If you local on a Saturday afternoon pop along I enjoyed it very...

Packed full of local history, I was surprised by the size of it and how many Navy photographs there are. The ladies working there were lovely and definitely knew their stuff! Will...