News and events for summer 2019 North West

A night out with a difference

With warm days come long nights and the overwhelming urge to soak up as much sun as possible. Make the most of heady evenings with al fresco entertainment, a picnic tea or a sunset stroll among the bees and butterflies. Aira Force © Images/Paul Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National

ith later opening and events Picture perfect picnics Take a stroll around the lake or head Dine outdoors across the North West you into the woods where you might Wcan stay a little longer at A walk and a picnic is a classic spot one of the resident red squirrels Relax after a long day on the Langdale your favourite places this summer. combination for a summer’s day and dining al fresco at one of the feeders. fells at Sticklebarn. We’ll be firing up there’s no shortage of picnic spots to the charcoals for BBQ nights, washed Find a sheltered spot in the glade at Fresh air theatre round off a day exploring in the Lakes. down with a splash of live folk music Aira Force. The sun shining through throughout the summer. Sticklebarn Dig out your picnic blanket (or pick Pack a picnic tea and watch the the woodland canopy creates dappled Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National up one of our best selling rugs in warm evening light fade against ‘spotlights’ and the trees of the Every Tuesday night at Fell Foot, join the shop), top up your glass and the imposing Lakeland fells across pinetum seem even taller when you’re us for wood-fired pizza fresh from Even better: just don’t lose yourself in a classic tale with Derwent Water from Crow Park lying on a picnic blanket! Leave the car the oven. Work up an appetite with a outdoor theatre at Dunham Massey. in Borrowdale. at Glenridding and arrive in style on tranquil evening stroll on the meadow go ! Enjoy the tempestuous love story the Ullswater steamer. walk, a refreshing swim or a warm Love the idea of staying at your Wuthering Heights or the enchanting paddle in ’s largest lake. favourite National Trust places after Secret Garden. Arrive early and stop hours? You can wake up there too by Dunham’s rose garden, alive with After the sun goes down with a break at one of our holiday vibrant sights and smells at this cottages or campsites. Open your There are eight species of bats time of year. front door to have breakfast in the found in the Lakes, and they’re most formal gardens at Cragside, watch For the ultimate Shakespearian active during the summer months the sun rise from the lighthouse experience, immerse yourself in when they leave their roosts to keepers’ cottage at Souter on the the works of the great playwright feed on insects. Join our rangers at east coast or drop off to the sounds set against black-and-white Tudor Ennerdale and Fell Foot for twilight of water lapping Windermere’s buildings, with Macbeth at Speke guided bat walks, using specialist lake shore from High Strawberry Hall and Romeo and Juliet at equipment to listen to their calls. Rufford Old Hall. Gardens, a stone’s throw from Claife Viewing Station. For a tea party with a difference, gather the whole family and join the Mad Hatter for Speke Hall’s family- For more holiday ideas go to friendly Adventures in Wonderland. Speke Hall ©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays

We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to. Join the adventure and share your top spots this season: You’ll find your summer facebook.com/NTNorthWest @NT_NorthWest facebook.com/NTLakeDistrict @NTLakeDistrict What’s on inside nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west nationaltrust.org.uk/the-lakes Garden 1 A snip in time 3 Plant for beauty A little snip after flowering can and taste often lead to a second flush later in Decorative fruit and veg can make the summer. The team at Dunham lovely additions to your summer secrets Massey spend 75 hours each week menu. Make a plot to plate salad for deadheading the roses to make sure the BBQ with trailing tomatoes and their 300 different varieties bloom all English marigolds, or grow your own summer long. Lavender also benefits mint to add to a cooling drink. Just from a haircut just after flowering. keep it contained to stop it taking The plant saves energy by not seeding over. Get inspiration for growing your so you’ll be rewarded next year with a own from the herb gardens at Acorn greater display. Sniff out these highly Bank and Little Moreton Hall and scented plants in the beds next to the Quarry Bank’s veg patches. house at Speke Hall.

4 Follow nature 2 Give your garden and slow down what it wants Grass tends to grow less in the peak Water butts are a great investment. of summer, so the best thing to do ©National Trust Images/Hugh Mothersole Images/Hugh Trust ©National Rain water is pH neutral with less is raise the cutting blade or hold With longer and lighter days, this is the time lots of us chlorine than tap water so is better off mowing to reduce scorching. for your plants. Make the most of Instead, take some time out and flex our green fingers. Our gardeners share their top any watering you do by picking stroll through the cottage garden tips to get the most from your garden this summer: the coolest part of the day, in the that inspired at Hill morning or evening. Imagine the Top or enjoy a picnic in the tranquil watering needed to keep the flowers walled garden at Hare Hill or on the at Lyme, Sizergh and Wordsworth lawns at Rufford Old Hall. House looking so colourful.

5 Let nature do its thing Speke Hall Wild flowers not only look beautiful but also attract pollinators, so if you’ve got space to sow some wildflower seeds you’ll be rewarded with colour and wildlife. Take inspiration from the wild flowers in the walled ©National Trust Images/Arnhel de Serra de Images/Arnhel Trust ©National garden at Wray Castle or along the Whitehaven Coast or join the crowds (of bees and butterflies) making the most of the new ‘nectar bar’ at Allan Bank.

Rufford Old Hall ©National Trust Images/Arnhel de Serra de Images/Arnhel Trust ©National Lost and found

Acorn. Ivy. Heather. Go on a word hunt in Get inspired by nature the gardens at Lyme this summer and see what you can find. Family activities are inspired by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Lost Words Morris’ The Lost Words. The book features Until 1 September, Lyme nature words which have disappeared from A series of family activities inspired by the book. the Oxford Junior Dictionary as children spend less time outdoors. Festival of Nature 29 June, Visit Manchester’s first nature festival and learn about local wildlife and the people looking after it. Meet Green Academies Project rangers, build a den, or follow a nature trail.

Local lives: Small change. Big difference 29 June–3 November, Dunham Massey

©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National This exhibition focuses on local people who are all doing their bit to help nature. See their portraits, hear their stories, and The Green Academies Project team are Why should young leave your thoughts about what you would fight to protect. working to try and reverse this trend. We spoke to Alex Bond, one of the people get to know rangers involved to find out more… nature? Do your bit for nature Tell us about your job: Nature is important for our health Over the summer help count the different types of butterflies and well-being, not just our planet. at so we can monitor and care for them. I teach young people new skills to However, a lot of young people Lyme

help them make a difference to local today don’t even know about the green spaces in need of some TLC. green spaces and wildlife right on their doorstep. Our bird population BBC Countryfile Live What does a normal is shrinking and our green spaces 1–4 August, Blenheim Palace and 15–18 August, Castle Howard day look like? are becoming less, and nature can’t solve this alone. We need to Love the countryside? Love nature? Then join us for this ©Amanda Hancox ©Amanda Every day is different. I could be look after what we have now so it’s year’s BBC Countryfile Live. Alex Bond, Ranger speaking in schools to inspire our still there in the future. This starts at Dunham Massey next generation of Youth Rangers, with showing tomorrow’s nature Visit nationaltrust.org.uk/countryfile-live for more details or outdoors teaching a group about champions how special nature is on our offer for members. bird life and making bird boxes. and what difference they can make.

2 Summer 2019 nationaltrust.org.uk Events and activities for summer 2019 The Lakes | , Lancashire & Merseyside

This is just a taster of the events coming up – Every Thursday 30 May & 25 July– visit nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west for 29 August, plus Friday 31 May more events and activities happening near you. Wordsworth House & Garden Walk on the wild side 11.30am & 2.30pm Join a costumed servant on a fun, family-friendly garden tour to taste flowers, touch bugs and discover how to turn your outside space into a wildlife haven.*

Every Friday Beatrix Potter Gallery Conservation in action 1–3pm Chat to our conservation team and see some rare items from the collection such as early editions of Beatrix's books or her jewellery.*

Every closed Friday Hill Top Hill Top tour 2–3pm The Lakes Experience Beatrix Potter’s beloved home, Hill Top, out of hours and get up close to items from the collection.

Look out for… Jennings @Lakes Culture/Jill £15 BE Wordsworth House & Garden Saturday–Thursday Regular events Wordsworth House & Garden May A very special family home This Land is Our Land & exhibitions 11am–4pm Until 3 November It’s 80 years since Wordsworth House Wednesday 29 May Daily was saved from demolition by local The landscape is not ‘natural’ or static. For thousands of years, Wray Castle Beatrix Potter Gallery people and opened to the public (until 31 May. Also people have covered it with their footprints, and it belongs to us all. Long the ‘Telling Tales’ exhibition by the National Trust. This new Wednesday–Friday 24 July–30 August) preserve of farmers and miners, in the 19th-century, Wordsworth and his fellow 10.30am–4pm discovery room display tells the Sailing from Wray boathouse Romantic poets reinterpreted it as a place of inspiration and respite, sowing Featuring original artwork from some story of an extraordinary home 9.30am–4pm the seeds of the modern conservation movement. Beginners’ sessions sailing out onto of Beatrix Potter’s most popular in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Windermere from the Victorian This Land is Our Land Become a rock artist ‘little white books’, ‘Telling Tales’ Every Monday boathouse at Wray Castle, with Saturday–Thursday until 8 September Every Monday 27 May & 22 July– looks at why, over 100 years after the Sizergh approx. 1 hour of instructed sailing. 11am–4pm 26 August publication of The Tale of , Guided walk of Sizergh Fell £12 BE An exhibition exploring nature’s 11.30am–3.30pm Beatrix Potter’s delightful characters 11am power to shape us and the impact Follow in the footsteps of the land’s still resonate with so many of us today.* Keswick Enjoy a 1.5-mile guided walk around (also 15 June, 25 July, 20 August, we, in turn, have on the environment. earliest inhabitants and decorate a Daily Sizergh’s farmland, discovering 22 September) Contributors include writers Robert pebble to tell a personal story.* Hill Top archaeological sites, grassland full Force Crag Mine open day Macfarlane, Sarah Hall, Hunter Davies 10.30am–3pm Become a natural artist The Samuel Whiskers trail of wildlife and incredible views over and George Monbiot, artist Julian Join a guided tour of the processing Every Wednesday 29 May & 24 July– 10am–4pm Morecambe Bay. Bring stout footwear. Cooper and others living and working mill and discover the story of the last 28 August Search for Samuel Whiskers and his Free in the Lakes.* mineral mine to be worked in the 11.30am–3.30pm ratty friends around Hill Top house Every Tuesday 23 July–27 August Lake District. £6 Under Northern Skies Let nature awaken your creativity and seek out hedgehogs in the Fell Foot Saturday–Thursday 16 September– and make a piece of wild art from garden as you follow the trail.* Pizza nights Thursday 30 May 3 November found objects or create a poem out Daily 25 May–1 September 5–7pm 11am–4pm of stones.* Derwent Water (also 23 June, 1 & Sizergh Make the most of the long summer Inspired by Coleridge’s Rime of the 22 August) Guardians of a fragile world Plants, poisons and potions trail evenings with a fresh pizza straight Ancient Mariner, young curators Derwent Island House open day Thursday 20 June 10am–4pm from our wood-fired oven on the from local communities take over 10.15am–2.30pm 7. Cecilia Strickland took hemlock shore of England’s largest lake. £ his friend and collaborator’s 30pm Paddle a canoe across Derwent Water to National Trust Ranger Maurice for her ailments, but little did she childhood home with displays and enjoy a guided tour of the Georgian Pankhurst shares his passion for the know it was actually poisoning her! Every Tuesday in school holidays installations highlighting today’s Hill Top house and gardens, and see the lake trees and woodland at the beating Discover other popular medicines of environmental concerns.* from a different perspective. Adult heart of the ecosystem sustaining the 18th-century and why they’re no Seed planting 11am, 1pm & 3pm £14.25, child £4, family £28.50 BE Count like a Cumbrian us all. £5 incl. coffee and cakeBE longer used today.* £1 Plant seeds with our very own Mr Saturday–Thursday until 3 November Whitehaven Coast (also 25 July, Folk: weaving an island tapestry Tuesday–Sunday McGregor and take them home to 11am–4pm 26 September) Thursday 19 September Sizergh grow in a compostable pot.* From counting sheep to naming St Bees beach clean 7.30pm The Sizergh Silk Road: from Goa everyday objects, the people of 2–3.30pm Award-winning author Zoe Gilbert to Antwerp Every Wednesday until 1 September Cumberland and the Lake District Tarn Hows Join us and the Colourful Coast speaks about her novel, , set in 12 noon– 3.30pm have long had their own language Folk Partnership at St Bees beach to help a richly imagined world inspired by Follow the threads of Sizergh’s Guided walks to describe the world around them. remove litter and tackle the marine the Isle of Man, where people and textile history from the Antony and 11am Follow our children’s trail around the Go on an adventure off the beaten plastics problem. Free landscape are bound together by Cleopatra Flemish tapestries, to the house and garden, and you’ll soon be track with our friendly volunteers. myth and tradition. £10 incl. glass newly rediscovered bedspread of speaking – and adding up – just like These guided walks usually last of wine BE James II.* a Cumbrian.* around 3 hours. Free

This is just a taster of what’s happening near you. To find even more great things to do, visit us online at nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west Summer 2019 3 Saturday 29 June August Acorn Bank Plant dyes workshop 1–4pm Saturday 10 August Join our plant dyes researcher for an Acorn Bank afternoon to find out more about Teas and tisanes using plants to make natural dyes, 1–4pm and get hands-on with dyeing too.* Spend an afternoon with our senior £30 BE gardener and chef tasting teas and tisanes using plants from our herb July garden.* £30 BE Saturday 17 August Saturday 6 July Fell Foot Hill Top All England Open Stone Skimming Hay meadow day Championships 10.30am, 11.30am, 1pm & 2pm 11am–5pm Join us in celebrating the unique hay Take part in one of the quirkiest meadow habitat – we’ll have ranger championships in the country and talks and guided walks taking place earn an official title.*£ (organised in the orchard and around the farm.* by South Rivers Trust) Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National Keswick (until 7 July) Friday 23 August September King Pocky’s Derwent Water Regatta Fell Foot 10am–7pm Saturday, 10am–4pm Sunday (also 30 August) Bat walks A fun ‘join-in’ regatta; low-cost Saturday 7 September water sports taster sessions, plus 7–9pm Take a twilight tour of the grounds free family activities including water Wray Castle (until 3 November) with our rangers to spot some of our play, balance bikes and wild art, and The mushroom and the spider’s web special residents. £5 for over 17s a lakeshore bar by Sticklebarn. From 10am–5pm

©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey Images/Chris Trust ©National £6 As autumn falls on Wray Castle, Monday 26 August you can discover some mysterious Friday 31 May Saturday 8 June Thursday 11 July Allan Bank mushrooms and intriguing spider’s Harvest time printmaking webs through a range of indoor and Acorn Bank (also 30 August) Wray Castle (until 1 September) Footprint (until 12 July) 10.30am–12.30pm & 1.30–4pm outdoor family activities.* Cooking from your garden Take off! A summer of things that flutter Explore What Matters camp Take inspiration from harvest 5.30–8.30pm 10am–5pm 1pm Thursday–4pm Friday time and use simple press printing Friday 13 September Help prepare and cook some of Acorn A celebration of bees, butterflies and Take some time out from your busy techniques to create your own print; Bank’s very own produce then enjoy moths through a range of indoor and life, disconnect from technology and Steam Yacht Gondola run by local artist Karen Lester.* £6 a two-course meal with our chef. £30 outdoor self-led family activities. Are reconnect with nature on this two day Heritage Open Day BE you ready to take off this summer?* camp; create woodland craft projects, 5–6.30pm share conversations and explore what Thursday 29 August An exclusive behind-the-scenes Acorn Bank (also 28 June, 26 July, Sunday 9 June matters to you. £195 incl. all meals BE Ennerdale experience; view archive material 30 August, 27 September) Twilight lakeshore walk with bat on the history of Gondola, find out Drop-in cooking demonstration Footprint Saturday 13 July identification about its rescue and rebuild, chat to 11am, 12 noon & 1pm Silva Sisters wild wellbeing in the woods 7.30–9.30pm the engineers who maintain the boat Chef James invites you to join him for for women Footprint (until 14 July) Join Academy Ranger Duncan for a and the helmsmen who sail her. Free a drop-in cooking demonstration on 10.30am–4pm Orin’s bioblitz sunset guided walk around Bowness how to use your garden produce.* Find strength, peace and connection See website for timings Knott armed with bat identification Saturday 14 September on a day’s retreat at Footprint; 11 year old Orin from Woodmatters equipment. Free BE there’ll be yoga, bushcraft, woodland invites you to a weekend of bat Borrowdale, Buttermere Valley, June crafts, meditation, mindfulness and bird walks, fun with lichens, Friday 30 August Ennerdale and Whitehaven Coast and mindful walking. Book via mini beasts, trees, rivers and much (until 21 September) [email protected] £55 BE more as we celebrate biodiversity at Acorn Bank Heritage Open Days: guided walks Saturday 1 June Footprint. Free, donations welcome Summer pruning workshop 10.30am & 1.30pm Saturday 15 June Join our rangers on a guided walk Sizergh 10.30am–3.30pm Sunday 21 July Join our orchard team for a day to to discover the hidden histories and Brigsteer Wood walk Footprint (until 16 June) learn how and why we prune fruit wildlife of the Lake District – there’s 11am Family bushcraft camp Special offsite event: trees in summer.* £30 BE a different guided walk every day. Discover summer on the Sizergh 11am Saturday–12 noon Sunday Nenthead, Cumbria Check our website for details. Free BE estate on this 5-mile guided walk. Two days of fun and memorable Underground lead mine adventure Saturday 31 August Spot butterflies basking in the sun experiences. Learn fire-lighting and 9.45am–3.30pm Monday 16 September and hidden wildlife from Park End bushcraft skills, greenwood carving Let the Pinpoint Adventure team Whitehaven Coast bird hide. £3 BE skills and campfire cooking, build guide you on a tour of Smallcleugh Release the moths! Sizergh (also 18, 20 & 21 September) and sleep in your own shelter, go on Mine, once a working lead mine. 7.30–9am Heritage Open Days: Sizergh’s Thursday 6 June a nature walk and enjoy storytelling. Explore a network of tunnels and Join us for an early morning as we gunpowder works Adult £75, child £35 (£30 for glimpse into the arduous lives of open the moth trap – last year 250 2pm Wordsworth House & Garden additional siblings) BE the miners. Age 8+. NB basic level moths (99 different species) were Join this guided walk to Sedgwick (also 4 July, 1 August, 5 September) of fitness required.£40 incl. bacon trapped in just one night. Meet at gunpowder works and learn some Scented summer evenings Wednesday 19 June sandwiches (or veggie option) Haig Colliery. Free hidden secrets from the Sizergh 4–8pm (last entry 7pm) estate. Free BE Take an early evening stroll around Whitehaven Coast William’s childhood playground, then Midsummer Night’s Eve wildflower Tuesday 24 September step inside to meet the ‘maid-of-all- guided walk work’ and discover how the ‘middling 7–8.30pm Sizergh (until 29 September) sort’ lived during the dramatic days Guided walk through the meadow Sizergh Uncovered of mad King George III.* restoration at Whitehaven Coast. 12 noon–3.30pm Free BE See our collection in a new light; peek Friday 7 June underneath the covers and inside Thursday 20 June the drawers of some of our oldest – Steam Yacht Gondola and most interesting – furniture.* (also 6 September) Steam Yacht Gondola Grand Victorian Circular Tour (also 19 September) Wednesday 25 September 10.15am–5pm Beatrix Potter’s landscape cruise and walk Accompanied by a guide, you’ll 10.45am–4.15pm Allan Bank retrace the steps of Victorian and Spend a day with our volunteer Flower arranging Edwardian tourists on an adaptation ranger on a guided cruise and walk 11am–1pm & 2–4pm of one of the original Furness Railway to discover Beatrix Potter’s Coniston Guided by our in-house flower arranger, grand tours of the Lake District. In story. £21 incl. afternoon tea at Monk this workshop is a chance to create partnership with Windermere Lake Coniston BE two small flower arrangements of Cruises, Lakeside & Haverthwaite your own.* £15 Railway and Mountain Goat Tours. Thursday 27 June £75 incl. entry to all attractions and lunch at Claife BE Whitehaven Coast (also 29 August) Whitehaven beach clean 10.30–12 noon We're joining up with the Colourful Coast Partnership to help remove marine litter and beach plastics. Free ©National Trust Images/Jonathan McMeekin Images/Jonathan Trust ©National

4 Summer 2019 This is just a taster of the hundreds of National Trust events and activities happening near you Cheshire, Lancashire Quarry Bank and Dunham Massey Regular events People’s Landscapes – unearthing passion and protest & exhibitions

& Merseyside 13 July–29 September Every Sunday 7 July–29 September 200 years after the Peterloo Massacre, artist family Gary, Grace, Hope and Alderley Edge Merrick will create and present two new films that will be shown simultaneously Guided walk Look out for… at Dunham Massey and Quarry Bank. The films are inspired by questions about 2pm protest, rights and responsibilities, freedoms and the power to create change. Learn of the history and legends of An exhibition of the artistic process, along with Dunham Massey and Quarry Alderley Edge as you explore with Dunham Massey Bank’s stories and links to Peterloo, will also be shown in Manchester Central one of our local walks guides. Free Library as part of the Peterloo 2019 commemoration project.* Celebrating nature and the people who look after it Daily until 1 September Saturday 6 July Hare Hill Until 3 November Manchester Central Library Wind in the Willows trail Celebrate nature with us this summer. Join in with events and activities that Meet the artists 11am–4pm explore the great outdoors and the plants and animals that call it home. 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm Follow the adventures of Ratty, Mole, Meet the artist family as they Toad and Badger this summer with an Faces of Change: Nature’s Champions Bioblitz lead a day of activity and debate interactive, illustrated trail.* £1 Daily until 9 June 31 May based around the themes of their 11am–5pm (last entry 4pm) 11am–3pm Daily until 19 July commission. See peterloo1819.co.uk From David Attenborough and Fancy yourself as a nature detective? Speke Hall for more details. Beatrix Potter to Vivienne Westwood Join in with a family-friendly wildlife Trust New Art: The Bell Tree and Joe Strummer, see portraits survey and help us find out about all 10.30am–4pm from the National Portrait Gallery’s the birds, beasties, bugs and plants that Step into a magical environment

collection of people who’ve shaped make their homes at Dunham Massey.* Surman ©Winters and experience award-winning the way we think or feel about green artist Serena Korda’s sculptural spaces and nature today.* Percy the Park Keeper – The Treasure Hunt sound installation, inspired by the 12 June–4 September fascinating story of hidden rebellions Local Lives: Small Change, Big Difference 10.30am–4pm at Speke Hall.* Saturday–Wednesday 29 June–3 November Join Percy the Park Keeper and 11am–4pm his animals friends on this nature- Wednesday–Sunday until 19 July Taken by photographer Jan Chlebik, inspired trail around the garden Speke Hall this exhibition features portraits of to discover nature’s treasure.* Trust New Art: Under The Rose local people doing their bit for nature 12.30–4.30pm every day. Hear their stories and tell Percy the Park Keeper – Nature’s Treasure Pick up headphones as you enter the your own, as we ask what nature 19 July–4 September house and then stand at the heart of means to you and what you would 11am–4pm Speke Hall to explore the espionage do to protect it.* Over the summer holidays you can and intrigue that is built into the fabric help Percy the Park Keeper look after of the building.* nature with family-friendly activities to find out about the amazing animals Wednesday–Sunday until 3 November who live at Dunham Massey.* Speke Hall Tension, Turmoil and Traitors: The Story of Tudor Speke Quarry Bank Millar Images/John Trust ©National 12.30–4.30pm Not every rebellion begins with a Rights of the Child battle cry... Discover the turmoil of Until 29 September Elizabethan England and the life or death secrets that were kept within 2019 marks 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre, a key moment in British history the walls of Speke Hall in a fascinating when people stood up for their right to a voice and were cut down. Through new indoor exhibition.* the lens of the children who worked at Quarry Bank, we will explore the legacy

©Nick Butterworth ©Nick of Peterloo; an event that forever transformed the rights of working people. Weekends 4 May–30 June (excluding 1– 2 June) Summer holidays: Find your Styal Summer holidays: Strike a chord Dunham Massey 22 July–2 August (weekdays) 19–30 August (weekdays, except Bank Music in the garden 11am–4pm Holiday Monday) 12 noon–3pm Try your hand at new, exciting skills 11am–4pm Dig out your picnic blanket, top up with the team at Quarry Bank, from Quarry Bank’s machines and the River your glass and relax with live music forest school fun to crafts in the mill.* Bollin form a unique rhythm. Come in the garden as tulips and bluebells along this summer and explore new spring to life.* Summer holidays: If you go down to ways to create and enjoy music.* the woods… 5–16 August (weekdays) 11am–4pm May Learn about the great outdoors and connect with trees, discover how they communicate with each other and Saturday 25 May how they log their experiences. Listen to them, learn from them, love them.* Speke Hall (until 9 June) Tudors in bloom Lyme Taylor Images/Megan ©National Trust 10.30am–4pm Celebrate spring in Tudor style. Books and stories Follow the Green Man’s trail as his Until 3 November spring spell brings nature to life, make a magical mask or enjoy tales from From printed words, new words to lost words, all of Lyme will be alive with Mother Nature.* language as we explore words in all their glory. Encounter the language of landscapes around the estate, seek out The Lost Words in the garden as we Wednesday 29 May bring Robert Macfarlane’s spell book to life and experience renewed passion for our printed heritage as we shed new light on one of the oldest printed Tatton Park (also 15 August) books in Britain. Tatton Teddy Hunt 10.30am & 1pm Lyme word trail Prayer, print and protest Tatton’s mischievous teddy bears are

Daily until 3 November June–3 November Millar Images/John Trust ©National playing hide and seek in the gardens! As you wander Lyme’s pathways you House open days Little Moreton Hall Can you help us find them all in time might stumble across a new word and Leaf through the stories behind the for story time? £12 incl. one free adult its meaning. Discover words about most significant printed book in the Get your body Tudor ready and vehicle entry BE this ancient landscape and see if Trust’s collection: Lyme’s Missal. Until 3 November you’re a nemophilist or a pluviophile.* Discover the beginnings of printing and what remains of one family’s Discover Tudor attitudes to health and food, with a different activity to try June The Lost Words quiet protest against religious each month, from making butter in a churn to creating a Tudor pinch pot to Daily until 1 September censorship.* keep your remedies in. Explore the way in which the Tudors looked after their 10.30am–5pm health and wellbeing, and get your body Tudor ready! Saturday 1 June Acorn. Ivy. Heather. Explore the house, park and garden to seek out Trust New Art: Gathering Play like a Tudor: summer holidays Dunham Massey (until 2 June) words like these that are disappearing 29 June–3 November 24 July–1 September Teddy Bears’ Picnic from children’s vocabulary, and 11am–4pm 11am–4pm 11am–4pm discover them brought to life. Join International artist Hilary Jack has Get your body Tudor ready with If you come down to Dunham Massey us in the summer for more children’s created a filmic piece for the Hall, some indoor and outdoor activities. today, you’re sure of a big surprise. activities inspired by Robert Macfarlane inspired by the Tudor tennis balls Try your hand at Tudor games like Bring your favourite teddy and a and Jackie Morris’ spell book.* £2.50 found in the Long Gallery.* archery and goose.* scrummy picnic for an afternoon of games, music and teddy bear fun!*

To find even more great things to do, visit us online at nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west Summer 2019 5 Summer Holidays Monday 19 August Saturday 7 September Saturday 20 July Quarry Bank (until 22 August) Mow Cop Go Batty! People, Protest and Politics – Methodists, Speke Hall (until 1 September) 7.30pm Mow Cop and social change Tudor life at Speke Hall Head along the to find 11am–3pm Explore all things Tudor over the out about the night-time residents of Discover how Hugh Bourne inspired summer holidays. Join us for crafts, Quarry Bank Estate. Adult £6, child thousands of people to gather on Tudor tales and trails, or roll up £3, incl. a tasty bat-shaped biscuit. Mow Cop and helped to change your green sleeves and connect society. Free. Lyme with nature.* (until 23 August) Mini rangers Sunday 8 September Wednesday 24 July 10am–3pm Bring your little ones to explore the Lyme

©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National Rufford Old Hall sights, sounds and smells of Lyme’s Lyme Bark Outdoor theatre: Sense and Sensibility woodland. Experiment in our mud 11am–3pm Wednesday 12 June July 7pm kitchen and follow the trail to discover Bring along your dog for fun agility The Pantaloons bring Jane Austen’s new experiences. Under 5s.* £1 activities, training tips and more.* Tatton Park classic tale to life in the grounds of Head gardener’s tour and luncheon Saturday 14 September Wednesday 3 July Rufford Old Hall. Adult£15 , child Wednesday 21 August 10am £12.50 BE Join the head gardener for an expert Lyme (also 23 August) Quarry Bank (until 15 September) Speke Hall insight into the garden’s history, Teen rangers Heritage Open Day: Right to Access Outdoor theatre: Sense and Sensibility Saturday 27 July followed by a light lunch in the tea- 10am–1pm 11am–4pm 7pm room with dishes using produce from Gawthorpe Hall Learn the skills you need to care for Which areas of the site were Join us for an evening of scandals, the garden. £26 incl. vehicle entry BE Outdoor theatre: A Midsummer a place like Lyme. Explore Lyme’s the workers forbidden to enter? scoundrels and severely sprained Night’s Dream landscape and wildlife and try your Experience the walks undertaken by ankles, with the hilarious Pantaloons! 6.30pm hand at being a ranger for the day. the workers every day and the spaces Saturday 15 June Adult £14, child £7 BE Bring your deckchair and picnic and Age 13–18.* £5 BE they would have been denied access Lyme (until 16 June) to in a weekend of special events and Thursday 4 July enjoy a fabulous evening with one of Father’s sports day weekend Shakespeare’s favourite plays. Adult Thursday 29 August activities. Free 11am–5pm Gawthorpe Hall £15, concession £12, under 21s £5 BE Challenge your family to traditional Dunham Massey (until 31 August) Saturday 21 September History Wardrobe: All Writers Great sports, then treat dad to ploughman’s Summer Nights Film Festival and Small Monday 29 July Little Moreton Hall afternoon tea or beer and cider 8.15pm (until 22 7pm tasting in the garden.* £ Lyme (until 2 August) Enjoy cinema under the stars in September) A celebration of Northern authors, Ranger in training Dunham Massey’s garden. Choose Mop Fair from the Brontës to James Herriot Tatton Park (until 16 June) 10am–12 noon & 1pm–3pm from Grease, Mamma Mia 2 or 11am–4pm Dogfest (and a lot of other good ones in Have you got what it takes to be a Bohemian Rhapsody. From £10.50 BE Autumn was the time for hiring new 9.30am–5pm between). Historian Lucy Adlington ranger? Pick up some new skills as staff in Tudor times. Join us for our Join hundreds of dog lovers for a links costumes and stories in this you explore the outdoors with these Friday 30 August weekend fair with living history fun-filled weekend alongside special lively literary show. £12 BE hands-on activities. Age 6+.* £5 BE group Amicorum.* Hare Hill guests Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and Quarry Bank (also 8 August) Clare Balding. Adult £16.50, child Outdoor theatre: A Comedy of Errors Outdoor theatre: Treasure Island £10.50, vehicle entry £7 August 7pm and A Midsummer Night’s Dream This wonderful Shakespeare comedy Thursday 20 June 7pm is filled with live music, audience Join Chapterhouse Theatre Company Thursday 1 August interaction and downright silliness. Speke Hall for unmissable productions of two Book via Folksy Theatre, tel: 01698 Outdoor theatre: Macbeth much-loved tales. Adult £16, child Speke Hall 854409 or folksytheatre.co.uk Adult 7pm £11, family £46 BE Outdoor theatre: Much Ado About Nothing £12, child £10, family £38 BE Pack your picnic basket and blanket 7pm and enjoy one of Shakespeare’s most Friday 5 July Enjoy Shakespeare’s Much Ado About famous plays, performed by the Rufford Old Hall Nothing by The Three Inch Fools with September vibrant and innovative Three Inch Speke Hall as a scenic backdrop. Outdoor theatre: Romeo and Juliet Fools. Adult £14, child £7 BE Adult £14, child £7 BE 7pm Saturday 22 June Heartbreak Productions perform Tuesday 6 August Wednesday 4 September Shakespeare’s timeless love story Lyme Little Moreton Hall (until 23 June) in the grounds of Rufford Old Hall. Rufford Old Hall Evening bat walk Midsummer Adult £15, child £12.50 BE All about bees 6–9pm 11am–4pm 1–3pm Explore Lyme at twilight. Learn about Experience the Tudor festival that Saturday 6 July Discover the wonder of honey bees, the eight species of bat that call Lyme gives thanks for the sunshine and roll a beeswax candle and learn about Little Moreton Hall (until 7 July) home and how we help them flourish water that nourishes the crops. Look the colonies of honey bees living at Tudor Group takeover here.* £12.50 BE Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National out for dancing, activities and live Rufford Old Hall.*£1 per candle BE 11am–4pm music from Piva.* The Tudor Group will be transforming Saturday 10 August Dunham Massey the Hall for a weekend of living history.* Notes Events are correct at the time of going to print. Dunham Massey Outdoor theatre: Wuthering Heights Dunham Massey Key: 7pm Outdoor theatre: Pride and Prejudice Outdoor theatre: The Secret Garden * – normal admission charges apply – booking essential through our Chapterhouse Theatre Company 7pm 6.30pm £ – small charge for some activities website or by calling 0344 249 1895 presents Emily Brontë’s wild and Take a step back in time with (booking fee applies) Join young Mary Lennox on a journey – 50 things to do before you’re tempestuous love story, Chapterhouse Theatre Company to – Part of Trust New Art, the Wuthering of discovery as she’s sent to her 113/4 activities . Adult £16, child £11, family meet Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen’s BE – booking essential through National Trust’s programme of Heights uncle’s house in the countryside, £46 BE beloved heroine, as you spend an the property contemporary arts. where secrets lurk round every evening in Dunham Massey’s beautiful corner. Adult £16, child £11, family Hare Hill garden. Adult £16, child £11, family Getting in touch £46 BE A taste of Buxton International Festival £46 BE 6.30–8pm To find out more, please visit Hill Top 015394 36269 Young singers and musicians present Thursday 11 July Saturday 17 August nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west or Lakes Campsites 015394 32733 call our places on the numbers below. a preview of this year’s operas and Little Moreton Hall Little Moreton Hall 01260 272018 (also 12, 13, 18, 19, Hare Hill concerts in an outdoor performance 20 July) Acorn Bank 017683 61893 Outdoor theatre: Mister Magnolia Lyme 01663 762023 in the walled garden. Book via Outdoor theatre: Pride and Prejudice 6pm Aira Force 017684 82067 National Trust Holiday Cottages buxtonfestival.co.uk £7.50 incl. 7.30pm Filled with music, puppetry and Alderley Edge 01625 584412 0344 800 2070 welcome drink BE Pack a picnic and enjoy Jane Austen’s wonderful characters, this is one not classic love story presented by Allan Bank 015394 35143 Quarry Bank 01625 527468 to be missed. Book via Folksy Theatre, Wednesday 26 June Alsager Community Theatre. Book via Rufford Old Hall 01704 821254 tel: 01698 854409 or folksytheatre. Arnside, Silverdale & Heysham alsagercommunitytheatre.org.uk or 01524 701178 Little Moreton Hall co.uk Adult £12, child £10, family £38 Sandscale Haws 01229 462855 tel: 01260 276165. 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6 Summer 2019 This is just a taster of what’s happening near you. To find even more great things to do, visit us online at nationaltrust.org.uk/north-west 5 minutes with Kate Arnside and Silverdale Martin, Coastal Officer for the North

From internationally important sand dunes to dramatic landscapes on the highest cliffs between Wales and Scotland, Kate supports the coastal teams to look after our coastline.

What’s the challenge of It’s our job to look after nature. What are your favourite A stroll at Sandscale Haws or And with climate change and Formby on a summer’s evening is looking after our coast? sea level rise affecting coastal things to do at this time another favourite, hearing the processes, we are looking at how choruses of the natterjack toad in We work year-round to care for of year? we help nature adapt and how we the rolling dunes and spotting the coast. With wind and water understand and work with this. The cliff top walk fromWhitehaven oystercatchers out on the mud constantly reshaping the coastline to St Bees is bursting with colourful flats. Or simply taking in the views we can’t do this alone, so we work We’re working with communities, wildflowers and a cacophony of over the Lake District from Arnside with local communities and partners partners, visitors, and our members nesting guillemots, razorbills, and Silverdale while listening to the to help us look after these special to look after our coastline and to kittiwakes and gulls. I love the views summer songbirds and spotting the landscapes. share these stories, helping provide out to the Isle of Man from North butterflies that flock there. Kate Martin access so people can enjoy these West England’s tallest seacliffs, places for many years to come. taking in the salty air and scents of the flowers. Find out more about the places we care for on the North West coast at nationaltrust.org.uk/coast-and-

beaches Millar Images/John Trust ©National

First There Is A Mountain

Help sculpt Formby beach on 6 October into thousands of mountains of sand using hollow scale models of five of the world’s most famous mountains. Katie Paterson’s artwork invites you to consider how coastlines have changed Explore secret sides across millennia. This summer you can take a new view of of history through art the stories behind the places near you.

he discovery of some Tudor ‘The Bell Tree’ is made up of three tennis balls at Little Moreton hundred ceramic mushrooms, THall have inspired a new artwork, inspired by the fairy folklore of the ‘Gathering’, by artist Hilary Jack. Over native bluebells that grow here. a thousand used tennis balls were collected to reveal the hidden history You’ll have to be quick if you want of the Long Gallery and this beautiful to discover these hidden sides to old building. ‘Gathering’ opens on Speke Hall as both installations 29 June, perfectly timed to coincide end on 19 July, taking their secrets with Wimbledon! with them.

At Speke Hall and Gardens folklore This year we’re commemorating and hidden rebellions are the inspiration 200 years since the Peterloo behind two unique experiences, created Massacre, an event which was by artist Serena Korda, and run in a turning point in the country’s partnership with Bluecoat, Liverpool’s democracy. Under the artistic centre for creative arts. Through a direction of Turner Prize-winning Caption xxxx sound piece in the heart of the Tudor artist Jeremy Deller, we’re working hall, ‘Under the Rose’ invites you to with artist family Grace Surman and pause and ponder the espionage and Gary Winters and their two young secrecy concealed in the black and children, Hope and Merrick, to white walls. From priest holes for hiding create new work at Quarry Bank Catholic clergy to eaves for servants and Dunham Massey – both of to eavesdrop for their masters and which had connections to Peterloo. mistresses, there are many secrets You‘ll be able to see their creation hidden within the architecture of the from 13 July and can also find out 16th-century building. And if you take more from the family at a special a wander in the ancient woodland you event on 6 July at Manchester’s can still discover another secret side to Central Library. Read more about Speke Hall. the artists in this edition of the National Trust magazine. ©Hilary Jack ©Hilary

See What’s On and the website for more details. For more ideas, visit Each exhibition is part of Trust New Art, the National Trust’s ‘Gathering’ at Little Moreton Hall nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteering programme of contemporary arts.

nationaltrust.org.uk Summer 2019 7 What’s your sports personality? News round-up

Giving heritage Summer is the perfect time to get active a helping hand outdoors, especially if you find a beautiful setting to up your motivation levels. We’re exploring new ways to help Whether you’re a sprinter or a rambler, special places in Lancashire that find something to suit your sporting style. are currently at risk. Thanks to the National Lottery I’d like to try Heritage Fund, we’re helping Lancashire County Council and a something new... local trust to find a future for Queen Street Mill in Burnley and Helmshore For a quirky afternoon of sport, Mills in Rossendale, places which join in the fun at Fell Foot this Fell Foot, Windermere played critical roles in Britain’s

summer when the All England Stone Hirst Images/Michael Trust ©National industrial history. Skimming Championships returns to Windermere on 17 August. Put I want to beat my I want a workout… We’re also working with the local your throwing arm to the test and community and many partners to see if you can set a new record. Or personal best… Looking to build up your fitness and enjoy the view on the way? help restore Burnley Empire Theatre. have a go at a brand new watersport Wray Runners meet regularly at Wray Castle, with running and This Grade II-listed Victorian at the Derwent Water Regatta on 6 Set yourself a new challenge and walking groups for all abilities. Or ditch the spinning machine, theatre has a special theatrical and and 7 July – hundreds of people will join one of the regular Trust10 dust off your bike and cycle the west shore of Windermere from architectural heritage, previously be taking to the water and sessions runs at Speke Hall and Lyme. Claife Viewing Station. Alderley Edge is a great place to add a bit attracting some of the best known include canoeing, sailing and even of competition to a regular walk, pick up one of the orienteering acts from across the world. trying a Viking longboat. maps and see how quickly you can complete the courses. Search for Lancashire mills at nationaltrust.org.uk to find out more. I’ll take it easy… Head to the secluded walled garden at Hare Hill for a peaceful Tai Chi RHS Flower Show, session, an ancient exercise proven Tatton Park to reduce stress, or take a Victorian style cruise on the Steam Yacht From 17–21 July explore the show Gondola across Coniston Water. gardens of today’s cutting edge Or for a sports inspired day designers and young garden designers

Lyme Serra de Images/Arnhel Trust ©National out that won’t break a sweat, of the future. And new for this year, experience a new film installation discover how to attract pollinators Stop off at one of our cafés or Once you’ve worked at Little Moreton Hall from artist into your garden at the bug hub or kiosks and find a healthy snack, Hilary Jack, inspired by Tudor take a minute to soak up the sight up an appetite... or a sinful treat. You’ve earned it. Hare Hill ©National Trust Images/Paul Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National tennis balls. of a field of more than 5,000 dahlias. National Trust members receive a discount when using the code Fell Foot, Windermere NT19 at the checkout.

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Our summer weather can be unpredictable, but family days out needn’t wait for the perfect forecast. Take to the water Explore indoors

If you’re having a go at water sports, If the weather’s too rotten to get who cares if it’s a bit drizzly? Fell outside, there’s plenty to see and do Foot’s Active Base on the shore of inside too. Explore the mill at Quarry Windermere is the perfect spot for Bank and discover the dangerous trying activities like canoeing, jobs that children did to keep the kayaking or stand-up paddle- mill running or search the house at boarding. You can also set off on a Sizergh to find out which medicines beginner’s sailing session from Wray of the past were really rather bad Castle’s Victorian boathouse. for you. At Wordsworth House and Garden and Lyme there are Splash in a puddle traditional toys and dressing up clothes. Or if you’re feeling creative, There are few things as tempting get stuck into the arts and crafts as jumping in puddles while you’re room at Allan Bank or look out for wearing your wellies. See who can crafty sessions and rainy day films make the biggest splash on one at Sticklebarn. of our outdoor trails. Follow the The long summer days are here. adventures of Ratty, Mole, Toad and Rain won’t Badger on the Wind in the Willows It’s time to pack a picnic, grab Check out What’s On and the website trail at Hare Hill or join in with Percy some factor 50 and get outdoors. for details of these and lots more ideas the Park Keeper’s trail to look for for sunny and rainy days this summer. stop play Surely it won’t rain, will it? nature’s treasure at Dunham Massey.

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