Frank Hutson Sugar Museum

Portvale Sugar Factory Tour

Well, myself and my family (including a 7 yr old who doesn’t always have the greatest attention span) thought this tour was brilliant, the guides explained everything very clearly and kept it interest...

Frank Hutson Sugar Museum (Closed) but...

Yes, the Frank Hutson Sugar Museum is closed, but the Portvale Sugar Factory do conduct guided tours (same site). Excellent tour, excellent guide, hard hats but you see every step of the sugar produc...

No sign of life. No signage to say open or closed. Looked run down.

We were there on 1 March 2018. We drove in to the car park, but there were no signs of life and the place looked badly run down and certainly not welcoming to tourists, so we drove away.

Museum was closed

We were out walking when we came across the sign for the museum, as we walked down the lane there was a man standing by the gates asking if we had come for a tour. We said we had come to visit the mus...

CLOSED to Tourists

We stopped by the first week of March in the hope that the tour and museum were opened in the midst of sugar season. The museum sits in a field and appears to be falling apart/down. We walked over to ...