Yesterday morning I found myself manhandling Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Lineker and Miss Havisham. In scarecrow form of course. This year the theme of our annual Scarecrow Festival is ‘Film and TV stars’, as Quarry Bank is set to once more grace TV screens this summer in Series 2 of The Mill. Last year…
Month: May 2014
‘The thousands inside all seemed to radiate with joy’ – The Great Exhibition of 1851
We’ve just had all the fun of the fair this May Day, and welcomed back Great British Fun Fair’s brilliant Victorian Swing Boats and Chair-o-planes. Nearly 163 years ago, Robert Hyde Greg enjoyed one of the greatest fairs the country had ever seen; the Great Exhibition of 1851. Whilst cataloguing letters of the Greg…
Quarry Bank Revealed 