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Victoria Park has had an extraordinary history – being used, from the start, as a meeting place for those working to improve industrial and social conditions.

In 1848 the Chartists (an influential movement that pressed for parliamentary reforms and a wider democracy) held an enormous rally in the park. Decades later, during the Great Dock Strike of 1889, local dockers used the park as a meeting place to vote on principal issues.

During World War II, Victoria Park was cultivated to grow food. It also provided cover for anti-aircraft batteries and housed service personnel and the Home Guard.

Victoria Park remains at the heart of the East Endand continues to host major contemporary music events and community festivals.

The Railway Age museum (only open weekends from Feb-Oct) is a very interesting and fitting museum for Crewe. It features many locomotives including many steam trains and the ill-fated British Rail Advanced Passenger Train of the 1980s. It also has working signalboxes and many activities for children, as well as a birds eye view of the many trains leaving the north of Crewe station. The museum isn't as rigid as many railway museums and you are free to wander around the yards and locomotives at your leisure.

January - March
November - December

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