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Attingham News Visitor Newsletter: July 2018 Family outdoor theatre The BIG summer £ B The Midnight Gang Heartbreak Productions perform adventure at Attingham David Walliams’ tale of magic, mischief, and memory making with Pack your rucksack, lace up your trainers, and head to Attingham The Midnight Gang as they for a series of adventures this summer holidays. We’ve planned overcome our greatest fears and outdoor adventures, wildlife adventures, sporty adventures and uncover the magic ingredient to a the ultimate adventure—the Attingham Camp! Here’s a few of our fantastic friendship. highlights—pick up a copy of our Summer Adventure Planner from Adult £15, Child £10, family tickets Visitor Reception or head to the website for details of more events available. and activities taking place throughout the summer. Friday 3 August, 7pm August, 3 Friday The ultimate adventure £ B Attingham Camp The popular Attingham Camp is Mondays at 2pm back for its third year! Bring the 30 Jul, 6, 13, 20, 27 Aug, 3 Sep family for a one night, fun filled camping spectacular. Booking closes at midnight Thursday 23 Parachute fun August. Set off for the Field of Play for 2pm Adult £30, Child (2-16) £15, Child to join in with some fun parachute (Under 2) £5. games. Saturday 25 August 25 Saturday New Attingham pin badge Working together to create a home for wildlife Keep an eye out for our new pin The team at Attingham work closely with tenant badge available soon at Visitor farmers on the wider estate to keep the land rich Reception and in the Stables Shop. in wildlife and productive for farming. We Funds raised from these badges will monitor wildlife across the estate to measure help us to ‘grow’ the restoration of whether we’re on track and see if conservation the Walled Garden. There is a work we’ve carried out is having an impact. minimum donation of £2. Recently, we were pleased to have the Shropshire Thank you to everyone who bought Barn Owl Trust with us again for their annual visit our first pin badge—a red Attingham at the end of June. They check and ring any Barn deer. Donations for these pin badges Owls found living in the many owl boxes we have raised over £900. put up at suitable spots around the estate over the last few years. And we were delighted that they found, and were able to ring, three different nests of owlets. This is a good sigh that the conservation work we carry out is having a real impact on wildlife habitats—and we couldn’t do it without your support through visiting, joining the National Trust, or treating yourself to a cream tea in the cafe, thank you! * For more information about Attingham, events and activities or enquiries visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/attingham-park or call 01743 708154 * Pantaloons to perform again this July Summer’s here and our programme of open-air evening theatre and cinema begins at the end of July. There’ll be laughter, fun and mischief throughout the summer months at our Summer Evenings of Entertainment. Bring along a picnic and low back seating, to settle down in front of the Mansion. We’ve got two outdoor theatre performances in the summer and at the end of August we’ll be showing two films as part of QUAD's Summer Nights Film Festival. First to take place will be The Importance of being Earnest, on Friday 27 July at 7pm. Join the ever popular Pantaloons for a unique and hilarious take on The Importance of Being Earnest. Watch the play come to life against the backdrop of the Mansion. Tickets cost £15 per adult and £10 per child. Booking is essential via www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ attingham-park/whats-on or by calling 03442 491895 (booking fees apply). 7 Restoration work update: There are three glasshouses in the Frameyard The Walled Garden Glasshouses of the Walled Garden, the Melon House, Tomato House and the Pinery Vinery. You may have seen the work beginning on removing the glass Originally supplied in 1924 by Duncan Tucker and timber frame structure from the Melon House in June. of Tottenham, traditional methods of The Window opening mechanism and cold frame (where we maintenance are no longer viable meaning nurture seedlings) lids were also removed leaving just the bare these structures are incredibly, and brick structure. increasingly, expensive to maintain and repair. We’re raising funds to restore, The window opening refurbish and replace parts of these structures mechanisms have been that are vital in the growing of produce in this saved and have now productive kitchen garden. gone to be refinished and powder coated. These will then be Our aims for the restoration work reinstalled as part of We aim to retain the character and spirit of the new structure later the Glasshouses whilst ensuring their in the summer. continued use for production. The benefits will be that glasshouses will last Once the frame had been removed it became clear that the much, much longer and that parts will not brickwork was not level across the structure—in fact, it’s out need repainting or replacing. Ongoing repair of level by about 30mm from one end to the other. The brick and maintenance costs will reduce. walls that support the frame need to be absolutely level for the new aluminium structure otherwise the doors and glass We’ll be incorporating as many of the original will be put under stress. fixtures and fittings as possible, such as the iron opening mechanisms, door furniture, To level the walls we will be using a stone coping which will window catches. incorporate a small sill to overhang the brickwork, and the stone will start to be laid in the first week of July. The cost of restoration Once the stone copings have been laid, Hartley Botanics the It will cost around £100,000 to restore all company building the new glass frame will return to site to three glasshouses. Work will begin on the carry out a final measure and survey. Melon House this summer. It should take around five weeks to make the new frame, If you’d like to donate towards the work you’ll before it can be put into situ later in the summer. find donation boxes in the Bothy and Visitor You can find out more about the Glasshouses Restoration on Reception. You can also donate online via the the ‘Our Work’ section of Attingham’s Website. website www.nationaltrust.org.uk/attingham- Andrew Denham, Estate Building Team Manager park Thank you for your support. * Have you liked us on Facebook or followed us Twitter yet? * /AttinghamPark @AttinghamParkNT Attingham Park, Atcham, Shrewsbury, SY4 4TP. .

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