At The Cutting Edge - Unique Experience Tours at the British Lawnmower Museum

A unique experience and tour around the award-winning British Lawnmower Museum by the Curator - lawnmower author, racer and expert. Lawnmowers are a unique and quintessential British invention that flourished in the Victorian period, but maybe seem humdrum nowadays. The British Lawnmower Museum shows how wrong that impression is.

Situated in the Victorian seaside town of sunny Southport, the museum houses examples of every type going back to its invention in 1830 by Edwin Budding. He was deemed a madman and lunatic for inventing such a strange contraption and was forced to test his machine at night so as not to be seen. Budding's invention has not been bettered to this day and remains the preferred machine for mowing a formal lawn including the great palaces and sports grounds all over the globe, including Buckingham Palace, Wembley, Wimbledon, Lords and golf courses too numerous to mention.

Fitting perfectly with the 2026 festival's Everyday Stories theme, the Lawnmower Museum offers unique cutting edge Lawnmower stories related to WW1 & WW2 from the famous Bouncing bomb, to Soldiers, Lord Mountbatten to Winston Churchill & his bath. 

Timings

Friday 11 September:

Tours: 1100, 1300 & 1500

Location & directions

British Lawnmower Museum, 106-112 Shakespeare Street, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 5AJ

Contact on day:

Brian Radam

Telephone number:

+441704501336

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking required

Booking conditions:

Please contact Brian on [email protected] to book your place

Booking contact name:

Brian Radam

Booking email:

[email protected]

Booking opens:

28 Aug 2026 12:00 AM

Accessibility details

The access to the museum is narrow and there are steep narrow stairs to the first floor.

Additional information

Please arrive 5 minutes before tour time.

Max number of people:

6

Estimated duration:

1 hour(s)

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