Wigston Framework Knitters Museum 2025

A Master Hosier’s house with a two storey Victorian frameshop in the garden. The house dates from the last years of the 17th century and shows signs of various alterations. At the rear is a cobbled yard and a water pump.

Contacts

Address: 42-44 Bushloe End Wigston Leicestershire LE18 2BA

Telephone: 0116 288 6243
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Open Days & Times

Sun 1400-1700. (Closed Jan; Feb; Christmas; New Year.) Visit website or facebook for more details.

Travel

By Bus: 48
By Rail: South Wigston / 1 mile

Facilities

Refreshments
Souvenir Shop
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The brick floor of an earlier frameshop can be seen in the garden; not unusual for this part of Leicestershire, with its long tradition of worsted knitting. The museum is unique, because when the last master hosier, Edgar Carter died in 1952, the workshop was locked and left. Inside on the ground floor were eight hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose, together with all the moulds and tools associated with each machine.