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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. 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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