Heritage Past-Port

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Heritage Past-Port

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Armitt Museum Askham Hall and Library

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: view a letter ‘written in the hand of God’; see discover how a 13th century, grade 1 listed Pele Tower photos of 7-foot snowdrifts and 10-foot dangling lives on, by providing luxury stays complete with spa icicles that brought Victorians ﬂ ocking to The treatments and relaxation; get a feel for celebrations Lakes; discover the meaning of ‘mycology’; revel in held in an ancient oak-beamed party barn and stroll 23 works by Kurt Schwitters and explore the life of alongside a 230-ft long double herbaceous border, in Beatrix Potter. Don’t forget to take a peek at ﬁ rst grade II listed gardens. Leave enough time to tuck into edition copies of Miss Potter’s “little” books! a Kitchen Garden Café delight!

Brantwood Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: make a beeline for a Bee Penthouse; see 200 zip through the trees and take a Treetop Trek; British native herbs laid out as a medieval see views of the Langdales that frequent visitor, manuscript; revel in the same views of lake Beatrix Potter, enjoyed; discover trees and shrubs Coniston enjoyed by John Ruskin, and explore his ﬁ rst planted by Arts & Craft gardener Mawson and life, works and home. Leave time to tread steps explore 10 exciting acres around the UK’s ﬁ rst worked by 9th century Norse invaders, explore National Park centre. Decide whether to arrive by the “Zig Zaggy” and play ‘rock’ music on ringing Steamer, or jump in a kayak! stones.

Passport1 e.indd 2 01/03/2016 14:34 Carlisle Cathedral Carlisle Museum of Military History Heritage

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: Past-Port hug a 900-year-old pillar; count the stars in the step into the shoes of soldiers from past and breath-taking ceiling; see England’s largest window present, discover the extraordinary feats of ordinary in the Flowing Decorated Gothic style (in the people; marvel at medals, be wowed by weapons, country’s second smallest cathedral,) spot the and travel to the trenches, to perhaps pen your own cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk ‘green men’ and ﬁ nd marks on pillars where weary letter home. Don’t forget to trace the war records monks fell asleep with their candles. Visit on a of one of your family forefathers, if you have basic Heritage Open Day and view a rare Tudor painted details to hand. ceiling and handmade Kings and Queens! Dalemain Mansion Dove Cottage & Historic Gardens

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: discover the Elizabethan past behind the Georgian tour Dove Cottage 125 years after it fi rst opened façade; learn of Dalemain’s Australian links; head to visitors; imagine the Wordsworths’ life in this to the Chinese Room and revel in the 18th century tiny cottage; hear why newspapers decorated hand-painted wallpaper and roam the 2013 Garden one room’s walls; roam a garden shaped by the of the Year. View the diary and portrait of Lady Anne Wordsworths’ “own hands” and fi nd out why eating Cliff ord and satisfy your sweet tooth with Dalemain’s porridge led to Sir Walter Scott’s famous window award-winning marmalade and the medieval escape. Pick out Wordsworth’s ice skates and tearoom’s treats. “green goggles” in the Wordsworth Museum.

English Heritage English Heritage Brougham Castle Furness Abbey

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: picnic by a ruined early 13th century castle, in a go in search of medieval treasure and discover stunning riverside location and enjoy panoramic the famous crozier; see an impressive gemstone views of the Eden Valley; consider what Edward I ring once worn by a monk, and seek out rare would have thought when visiting in 1300; see the and remarkable stone eﬃ gies. Speculate what impressive Tower of League and double gatehouse, happened on the day King Stephen founded and play I Spy as you explore the passageways this Abbey and give your opinion on the ornately and stairways. decorated chapter house.

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Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: be whisked back in time to the 19th century; live revel in a cascade fed by streams on the Lakeland life like a wooden bobbin maker; marvel at how this fells; praise Himalayan Blue Poppies; discover mill made a quarter of a million bobbins a week and the four National Plant Collections of Astilbe, work out how it could have housed 250 workers. Meconopsis, Daboecia and Polystichum and take Reﬂ ect how you might have felt if arriving here from the Hydrangea Walk. Don’t miss the spectacular a workhouse and buy a bobbin to take home as a Handkerchief Tree, children’s trails and make the reminder. most of the opportunity to relax in the 17-acre gardens nestled above glorious Windermere. Holker Hall & Hutton-in-the-Forest Gardens

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: see the microscope of a legendary mysogynist visit the Rococo-ceilinged Cupid Room and see who discovered nitric acid, explored hydrogen Playing Boys on the Cupid staircase; view the and calculated the earth’s density; track down the Mortlake tapestries and William Morris wallpapers; Regulator Clock and the Nursery Yacht and view learn of Hutton’s association with the Arthurian treasures by Van Dyck, Chippendale and Reynolds. legend of Sir Gawain and the Greene Knights and Head outside for incredible gardens, the 400-year- track down the ‘quarrelsome chairs’. Spot the old Holker Great Lime, a National Collection of 17th century dovecote, appreciate six centuries of Styracaceae and a labyrinth inspired by a Hindu architecture and perhaps even arrange a guided temple. walk with the gamekeeper.

Keswick Museum Kirklinton Hall & Gardens

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: Play the musical stones in Britain’s fi rst Rock Band; discover the Faerie Glen at 17th century Kirklinton walk across the Lake District in 10 seconds; learn to and the ‘face’ of Faerie princess, Maelgwyn the draw like Wainwright in our exhibition; see fi ve top Fair; meet the Empress of Kirklinton in her Chinese Lakeland fells from our window; fi nd a fi sh left over Chippendale Pig House and take the delightful from the last ice age, a rare golden eagle and our woodland walk, crossing footbridges over formal 700-year-old cat! cascades. Make time to discover the 21 fruits of pommology, play croquet, head to Pell-Mell Allee and visit the Healing Herb Garden.

Passport1 e.indd 4 01/03/2016 14:34 Lakeland Arts Lakeland Arts Abbot Hall Blackwell The Arts & Crafts House

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: enjoy one of Britain’s fi nest collections of Romney absorb the White Drawing Room’s shimmering beauty paintings; ponder the amazing inheritance quest of and mirror trickery and marvel at the elegance and Lady Anne Cliff ord, by viewing her ‘Great Picture’ craftsmanship within one of the best examples of the triptych, and browse exhibits from the 17th to 21st Arts and Crafts movement in the world. Take up an centuries. Note names like Kurt Schwitters, Ben and invitation to enter this stunning house to relax, soak up Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and wallow in the atmosphere and a magnifi cent lake view, and learn a unique and intimate Georgian ambience. about the people who made Blackwell their home.

Lakeland Arts Lakeland Motor Museum of Museum Lakeland Life and Industry

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: step into an 18th century farmer’s kitchen parlour Snap John McGuinness’s Honda motorcycle; marvel and discover the use of the bacon settle; amble at a unique collection of historic motor cars and down a Victorian high street; view a piano believed become emotional over the tribute to speed legends to have belonged to Beatrix Potter and discover Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell. Be enthralled personal items which belonged to Swallows and by the industrial heritage of the Leven Valley and Amazons author, Arthur Ransome. Study a Ruskin enjoy the nostalgia created by a fascinating display Lace Bag, appreciate life in a bobbin factory, and of automobilia. Discover a microcosm of twentieth discover the importance of swill baskets. century life.

Levens Hall and Mirehouse & Gardens Gardens

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: get a buzz from a clasp of interlocking bees removed explore Melvyn Bragg’s ‘Manor from Heaven’, take from Napoleon’s coach after Waterloo; discover the Terraced Poetry Walk or visit a bee-friendly the secrets of Morocco Ale and the 17th Century walled paradise, and discover the snuﬀ garden and Radish Feast and marvel at incredible gardens and rhododendron tunnel. Allow the children to take to extraordinary topiary characters such as Queen The Steeplechase, Forest Castle, or Squirrel Island Elizabeth and her Maids of Honour, the King and for outdoor adventure, and enjoy a family nature trail Queen chess pieces and the Judge’s Wig. together. Keep an eye on the sky – you may just spot the iconic ospreys!

Passport1 e.indd 5 01/03/2016 14:34 Muncaster Castle, National Trust Gardens, Hawk & Acorn Owl Centre Bank

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: explore 300 varieties of herbs and 100 varieties discover the prophesy surrounding King Henry VI’s of apple, visit the ancient ﬂ our-grinding watermill, drinking bowl; learn how a Pennington killed a man working most weekend afternoons, and buzz around after ‘quarrelling about humming a tune’ and listen the teaching apiary like a busy bee. Discover why intently as the story of Tom Fool is revealed. Step the property is home to the National Trust’s largest outside, for views, the Meadow Vole Maze and Hawk collection of medieval and culinary plants, ask about & Owl displays and, when in the castle, remember it’s the hotbeds, and enjoy romantic notions of the very one of the most haunted buildings in the UK. ﬁ rst owners – the Knights Templar..

National Trust National Trust Allan Beatrix Bank Potter Gallery

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: visit a superb base camp for a walk to Helm Crag, view Beatrix Potter sketchbooks and enlightening Loughrigg, Easedale Tarn, or Grasmere and Rydal; journal excerpts; view original artwork from the discover rugged woodland, a walled garden and author and soak in the 17th century origins of more formal lawns; drink in stunning views of a house that formerly housed her husband’s Grasmere, and picnic whilst perhaps spotting a red solicitor’s practice. Partake in a Storytelling squirrel. Brew yourself a cuppa in one of tea-loving Saturday, understand Beatrix’s love of nature Wordsworth’s former homes, or create your own and explore, amongst others, Tale of Jemima masterpiece in the art room. Puddleduck illustrations.

National Trust National Trust Hill Top Sizergh

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: explore this 17th century time capsule of Beatrix spot an elusive Hawfi nch, the fl ash of a Woodcock, Potter’s life; tour her quintessentially British home or a Great-Crested newt; watch a Fritillary butterfl y in her 150th birthday year and delight in the lovely fl utter by; discover 700 years of history and stroll cottage garden that became hers thanks to the around an exquisite limestone rock garden. Note the proceeds of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Make sure you elaborately carved Elizabethan oak panelling and the meet the present-day Mr McGregor, to learn all about astonishing Elizabethan inlaid chamber, of national the historical roots of the garden! and international signifi cance, and check out the Gillows furniture, if you love antiques.

Passport1 e.indd 6 01/03/2016 14:34 National Trust Quaker Wordsworth Tapestry House Museum

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: Use 77 tapestry panels – a contemporary Bayeux step back to the 1770s; meet a costumed maid and Tapestry – to journey through the Quaker inﬂ uence manservant with unique insights to impart; appreciate on the modern world; discover innovation, religious the harsh realities of 18th century life and discover the struggle, social reform and more and delight in the recreated garden in which the young Wordsworths stunning needlework’s detail. Listen to stories behind would play, before their mother’s death split the family the stitches, let the kids dress up, and discover why apart. Don’t miss two Beatrix Potter exhibitions in Quakers are linked to chocolates - not oats! Admire 2016, as the National Trust celebrates her 150th the tapestry’s 200-year old home, the Georgian birthday. Meeting House, in its anniversary year.

The Ruskin Museum Swarthmoor Hall

Use your past-port to: Use your past-port to: be thrilled by Donald Campbell’s exploits in discover the inspiring birthplace of Quakerism; Bluebird K7; seek out the Cabinet of Curiosities; appreciate a 16th century home with six historic view the V12 Merlin aero-engine of the Halifax rooms and incredible 17th century furniture, and Bomber LL505 that crashed in 1944, and check compare the Fells Bedroom quilt with the Living out the dry stone wall with its rabbit smoot, Quilt - its garden replica - in the Courtyard Garden. bee bole and hogg hole. See some of Ruskin’s Make the most of the serene setting to enjoy a spot watercolours and drawings and explore the world of meditation and reﬂ ection, or an idyllic Lakeland of coppermining and slate quarrying. picnic.

Winderwath Gardens

Use your past-port to: gain insights into a privately-owned, ﬁ ve-acre plantsman’s garden; view Wellingtonia, Cut-leaved Beech and Cedar trees from the 19th century, and @CLivingHeritage peruse rockeries, herbaceous borders, rare Alpines, unusual and specimen trees and Himalayan plants. Cumbria’s Living Heritage Pack a picnic to enjoy by the pond and remember to visit for primulas in spring and glorious copper cumbriaslivingheritage.co.uk colours in autumn. Don’t forget to purchase seasonal plants and vegetables to enjoy at home.

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