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Attractive
and peaceful gardens help to make it a relaxing day - and
are great for a picnic. |
What I enjoyed
most was the variety of interesting, attractive and peaceful
gardens.
Every part
of the museum and farm had lots for the children to do.
Trying
the yoke for size. |
Apart from
interactive displays, there was an adult sized doll in the cottage
which children were allowed to move around, dressing up clothes
in the workhouse and school, a fake cow to milk in the dairy,
a yoke and two pails to try for weight and endless games and
brass rubbings.
What I particularly
liked was that the children saw this ‘previous world’ as a setting
for their own imagination.
They could
be animals being weighed on the 100-year-old cattle scales from
Fakenham market, they could teach in the school or lie down
in a reconstructed bed in the workhouse. We took a picnic with
us and there were plenty of tables and benches in pretty settings.
We stopped
at the café for tea in the afternoon and there were cakes, fresh
rolls, ice creams and a menu offering baked potatoes with interesting
sounding fillings.
There were
sandwich boxes for the children but no hot children’s menu -
in fact, no solid food which my fussy children would have eaten.
The café was also a bit confusing and had a tiny serving area
- no problem for us as it was empty at the time.
I felt the
experience was well worth the £13 a family ticket costs, and
that I could go back and still find new things to see.
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FAVOURITES
By Isobel, aged 5.
I liked the cattle weighing machine best. The thing they
got weighed in was rocky.
I liked being a horse going in the pen.
My
second favourite was the school. The school was nice because
you could dress up. There was a piano in the school.
You
could move Ethel in the cottage. Ethel was bald and her
hat kept falling off.
My
third favourite was the hens. |
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