Madi Gray is the Curator of Decorative Arts at Normanby Hall near Scunthorpe.

Normanby Hall is a Regency mansion featuring displays telling the history of the house and the Sheffield family for whom it was built. It sits within a beautiful country park that is also home to the Rural Life Museum, woodland walks, gardens, a cafe (featuring produce from the walled garden), playgrounds, and even Go Ape.

Children will particularly enjoy the land train, the miniature railway and deer feeding at certain times of the year.

There's plenty for the whole family. Check the website for opening times and prices at www.normanbyhall.co.uk

Social media links:

https://www.facebook.com/normanbyhall

https://www.instagram.com/normanbyhall?igsh=MWJpeTNmdTIzZTM1NQ==

Andrew Plumtree is a volunteer at the Appleby Frodingham Railway-Scunthorpe (formerly preservation society). The society was formed in 1990 to preserve the industrial railway heritage of the Scunthorpe Steelworks and the surrounding local area.

The organisation provide rail tours & driver experiences at the British Steel Scunthorpe site - Britain's largest industrial Railway and the UK's last steelworks utilising blast furnaces.

They are a volunteer run charitable organisation.

Charity name: Appleby Frodingham Railway-Scunthorpe

Charity number: 1196958

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/AFrailway

Booking provider: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/afrps

Website: https://www.afrps.co.uk/

Liz Bennet is the Managing Director of The Ropewalk Arts Centre in Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire.

The Ropewalk is an arts centre, museum, café and studio space. It is housed in a Grade II listed former rope factory, Hall’s Barton Ropery, which was founded in 1801 and closed in 1989. Many of the artefacts on display in the museum and available in the archive were donated by former employees and their families.

The Ropewalk has been part of Barton’s story for more than two centuries, beginning life as a bustling rope‑making factory that once powered Britain’s maritime industries. Its long, narrow footprint—perfect for twisting hemp into rope—became a defining feature of the town’s industrial landscape.

Today, the building has been lovingly transformed into a vibrant cultural hub, home to galleries, studios, a café, and a thriving programme of arts, music, and community events. It’s a place where history and creativity meet, where the echoes of industry sit alongside the energy of modern makers and performers.

www.the-ropewalk.co.uk

Sally Mitchell has been collecting horse-related artefacts most of her life. In 2014 she opened a museum dedicated to the horse in a beautiful old coaching inn, in Tuxford, North Nottinghamshire.

She has curated a fascinating collection of artefacts that cover agriculture, warfare, coaching, racing, riding - every aspect of how horses have been used.

And the museum isn't just for horse lovers. As Sally rightly says, the history of the horse is the history of us all.

https://museumofthehorse.co.uk

Stuart Orme is curator at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

The Cromwell Museum is in the heart of this historic market town, and housed in the town’s oldest building. Part of a 12th century religious house, the building became the town’s grammar school in 1565, and was attended by Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys in the 1600s. Today it houses the world’s largest collection of artefacts relating to Cromwell, and tells the story of this hugely significant and controversial soldier and statesman ‘warts and all’.

Web: www.cromwellmuseum.org

Bluesky: @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social

Facebook/Instagram: @thecromwellmuseum

TikTok: @cromwell.museum

Twitter/X: @museumcromwell

Youtube: /CromwellMuseum

Sherborne Castle in Dorset, has been the home of the Wingfield-Digby family since 1617. It was built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594, and this historic house reflects a glorious variety of decorative styles from over 400 years of English History.

The Grade I listed Garden was one of Capability Brown’s first commissions and this magnificent English Landscape Garden survives largely unaltered to this day.

In the episode I chat to Maria Wingfield-Digby, wife of Edward Wingfield-Digby who is the current owner of the castle. She oversees the tourism side of the business and the garden is her pride and joy!

Find out more at https://www.sherbornecastle.com

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Barton Upon Humber in North Lincolnshire has a long history, and many historical buildings from the Saxon period onwards.

It also has its fair share of ghosts!

The South Bank Players have been performing the Ghost Walk since 2002 and it's still going strong.

Walks start from Baysgarth House Museum and run on Halloween, and then the last Fridays of November, January, February and March each year (check the website for changes).

The walk starts at 7.30pm and currently tickets are £5 per person (adults and children). The route is around a mile long and takes 75-90 minutes depending on the size of the group.

Book online at www.sbplayers.co.uk

Welcome to my brand new podcast, Come Here! which is all about heritage attractions.

Each week I'll be chatting to someone from a different heritage attraction (museum, gallery, historic site etc) about why people should visit. I'll be asking them about the history of their site, what makes it special and what they love about it, as well as all the important visitor information that you want to know.

If you're a curator, collections manager, or someone who is passionate about your heritage attraction, and you'd like to be a guest, I'd love to hear from you.

And if you're a listener who would like me to feature a place that you're interested in visiting, then do get in touch too.

You can contact me on liz@lizdrury.co.uk or via my website www.lizdrury.com