Hi Maureen You need to contact the Museum direct to answer your questions but I do know they do guided tours and have a cafe area but not sure of the opening times. In stockport, there are the WW2 Air Raid Shelters and the staircase house to visit. There is also a brewery which does tours, but not Mondays.

To a point. Hats and clothes to try on and lots to see. The work room may be a bit boring and noisy if the machines are being demonstrated

Hi there, Hat Works is just a 5 min walk from the train station and a 2 min walk from the bus station. It is signposted from the train station and the building can be clearly seen from the bus station. Thanks

Yes they did.

I'm sorry you didn't get to visit Hat Works. Unfortunately the museum does not have any of its own parking spaces. The nearest car parks are Heaton Lane (near Mersey Square) and Grand Central (near the Railway Station) where parking charges apply. If it is easier to come into the museum via Daw Bank, please call us on 0161 474 2399 with your estimated time of arrival and we can be ready to let you in.

I believe the tour is about 90 mins long. We were lucky that we attended the museum on a very quiet day, so we were the only ones on the tour and the chap was more than happy to answer all our questions causing the tour to run over by about half an hour! We were more than happy and the tour chap is sooo informed and interesting!! Great day.

I'm afraid there isn't a cafe but the city centre is a stone's throw from the museum with yummy restaurants and lovely little cafe's

It's free entry but you can also pay around £12.50 for a multi-pass to have a guided tour of Hat Works and also admission into Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Staircase House, Stockport Story Museum (which is actually free) and Bramall Hall (although the ticket isn't able to be used for Bramall Hall until the first week of August due to the renovations but there's no time limit on your ticket). If you opt for the multi-pass ticket and do the other museums (which are on the historic market place apart from the Air Raid shelters which are just past the taxi rank on the way towards the Market on the Chestergate side of the shopping centre), make sure you pop into the historic Blackshaw's Cafe next to Stockport Story Musuem for a coffee :)