The Rum Story

Informative and interesting place on the journey of rum and insightful history to the terrible slavery that went along with it. I enjoyed the experience and did walk away with a bottler of Jefferson’s rum afterwards. If your a fan of rum then give it a go!

Brilliant food and staff very friendly ,will recommendVisited onWeekend

Very interesting. It's good to visualise Britain's dark past in the slavery trade, our ancestors were cruel.and treated the blacks like animals. Remember slave trading started 2000 years before the Europeans got involved though.Visited onWeekdayWait timeNo waitReservation recommendedNo

What a nice shop or store very curious place had everything and no we was visiting this town and it have a lot to see sad that I didn’t taste the Rum as I was driving but I did buy the beer pack and I have to said I wasn’t expecting that good taste. Very clean shop very friendly Lady. As I do recommend this place to check it out and if you are in town we’ll have a look

Was quite busy and really enjoyed my jacket potato, I need to remember to have cash when I go next time as they don't take card ,was a bit cold too as door was open , but food was delishVisited onWeekdayWait timeUp to 10 min

Lovely pace to sit and have a coffee after your trip into the rum storey, have a look up on the the belconey where there is some fabulous art for sale by us local artists, mine is a picture of local wool made by needle felting it to look like a painting it on a water fall and at lingmill eskdale ValleyVisited onWeekendWait timeNo waitReservation recommendedNo

Please check the website for opening times as it is not what you see on Google, we have found this out today when arrived at the shop and had to turn around as the museum was closed. Disappointing. The shop is open and worth checking. Lovely lady with lots of advises and tips about other activities in town.

Really interesting, with lots of local and global history. Well worth a visit with the family. Will definitely go again.Visited onPublic holidayWait timeNo waitReservation recommendedNo

Absolutely love this place the food is amazing please give it a try. We went twice 1 for normally weekday food and 2 for Sunday dinner highly recommend

Certainly innovative in the way the production of rum from Sugar cane juice has been presented using models and videos, made attractive to school children with a representative Caribbean forest, and stories of pirates and other bits of sailor's lores that made the port city of Whitehaven one of the 3 largest port cities in the then British land. Not to fight shy of the murky side, the 300 year old trade involving slaves has been dealt with in detail, going so far as to present the actual metal chains and braces that were used to shackle the slave men and women in the dark underdecks of slave ships. In another section of the tour the underground rum storage and testing facilities have been brought alive using realistic arrangements of dim lighting, and tools of trade as if still in use. Units of measure India Butt ! no longer in use but that were very much a part of the then everyday life adds curiosity to retelling of history. Finally a walk through the office room is a genteel reminder how far we have come from the then state of the art in office machinery - the typewriters! The tour ends with a sip of the elixir that fuelled the liquid gold rush and is the cause of existence of this tourist attraction.