Quarry Bank is gearing up to once more open our doors 7 days a week when the National trust begins its ‘summer season’ this Saturday. Here at Quarry Bank, this first week of the new season will see us welcome lots of families to our half-term activities. From Mon 17- Fri 21, 12-4pm, kids can…
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Christmas with the Greg family
Back in October you may remember that the cataloguing volunteers unearthed a letter which shed new light on the Greg family’s home life. The letter was from Mary Philips, wife of Robert Hyde Greg, to her son Robert, and explained the plans for their annual winter play. The team have uncovered yet more of Mary’s…
Victorian Christmas 2013 – the year of the reindeer
We’ve been gearing up for Christmas since about August here at Quarry Bank, and what a Christmas it’s shaping up to be. Once again we are hosting our Victorian Christmas, but with a few added extras this year. In the Mill Yard you can meet costumed interpreters, buy some traditional sweets and warm yourself up…
“He has had very much less flatulence…”
The cataloguing of the archive has been delivering some really wonderful and often beautiful finds, such as the wedding photograph of Robert Alexander Greg that I shared with you a few weeks ago. Today, however, two of our Archive Volunteers, Pat and Christine, have found possibly the most humorous letter thus far. Pat and Christine have…
The Big Family Day Out at Quarry Bank
The Big Family Day Out is a festival of volunteering, between 23rd July and 7th August, taking place across six National Trust properties. We’ve just finished up our events here at Quarry Bank which saw 70 people come together to make lots of bat and bird boxes as a family, for use around the estate to give…
Scarecrow Festival
For the past couple of weeks the word on everyone’s lips here at Quarry Bank has been ‘scarecrow’. We’ve all been busy making our entries for the Scarecrow Festival and in several cases this has led to a heightened atmosphere of competitiveness and secrecy, with lots of entrants determined to win ‘Best Scarecrow’ in their…
A Swinging Success! May Day at Quarry Bank
All that finger crossing and wishing certainly worked for once as we had glorious weather for our Victorian May Day. The day started pretty early for some of our staff, with my poor boss, Rachel, and a couple of our Rangers, Tim and John, arriving at the property at 7:15am to help to set up the Victorian Swing…
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…
Easter at Quarry Bank 2013
We are determined that spring will have sprung by this weekend in time for our Easter Eggstravaganza, so everyone think bright sunny thoughts! We’ve all sorts planned for the perfect family Easter weekend (29 March-1 April, 12-4pm), and will be joined by the Cadburys team on Easter Sunday and Monday, who will be bringing along brilliant activities…
‘Best Wishes’ – Emily Gair Greg
Our wonderful exhibition ‘Best Wishes’ has been open for over a month now and hopefully you’ve had the chance to come and see it. I thought as a way to entice you to visit the exhibition if you haven’t already would be to tell you the story of the inspiration behind ‘Best Wishes’; Emily Gair Greg….
Every shade of the spectrum – half term at Quarry Bank
If you’re feeling slightly harassed by children old and young alike for something fun to do this half term then look no further because here at Quarry Bank we have a week full of fun activities for you and the family to try! All week-long (Mon-Fri) we are running our ‘All the colours of the rainbow’ workshop, where…
A Victorian Christmas at Quarry Bank
The past couple of weekends here at Quarry Bank we have been celebrating Christmas Victorian style. Both weekends were absolutely fantastic and got everyone into the festive spirit, with well over 2,000 visitors! The Mill Yard was full of costumed characters serving our special mulled wine and roasted chestnuts on an open fire (well it was…
Quarry Bank Revealed 