So last Monday and Tuesday if you had popped down to Quarry Bank you would have seen a few bizarre items being carried around the Mill, including a giant pea green boat, an 8ft canoe, an exercise bike, oh, and a couple of Gnu heads (not real, don’t panic!). You may have seen several members of staff (including…
Month: April 2013
A new type of adventure…
For this post I’m handing over to Carrie-Anne, our Learning and Interpretation Assistant and new Geocaching expert! Go Geocaching with the National Trust My name is Carrie-Anne and I am a Geocacher! One of my jobs at Quarry Bank is creating trails for our visitors to use. Most recently I created a geocaching trail around Styal Village, along…
Wellies at the ready!
Today we have a multitude of options when it comes to purchasing food. Supermarkets, mini-markets, corner shops, even petrol stations offer you the chance to pick up something for lunch. But not too far off in the distant past, the way we purchased our food and thought about our food was incredibly different. These days…
A few thousand easter eggs
We’ve had a fun-filled (albeit exhausting!) Easter holiday here at Quarry Bank. We kicked off with Easter weekend when over 6,500 visitors (double what we were expecting) joined us to try out our special Cadbury’s trail through the Mill to earn their chocolate egg. Cadbury’s joined us on Easter Sunday and Monday, and provided garden games,…
“The fatal ring”…
Whilst doing a little bit of digging into the archives and researching members of the Greg family, I found a collection of letters from Robert Hyde Greg, second owner of Quarry Bank, to his fiancée, and later wife, Mary. It’s been a little while since I had to use my palaeography skills and so fortunately I had…
Quarry Bank Revealed 