National Trust Christmas
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This year the National Trust takes you back in time to see how Christmas has been celebrated through history. How did a Tudor Christmas differ from a Georgian one? Was it really the Victorians who invented the Christmas traditions that we know today? What was it like to celebrate Christmas at a grand country house during the ‘golden years’ before the first world war?
By visiting one of the National Trust’s properties that are celebrating in period style you can find out the answers to all these questions and have a great festive day out.
Choose from a Tudor Christmas at Speke Hall in Liverpool where you can see the decorations in the Great Hall and meet characters from the Hall’s past, with authentic music, children’s activities and more; Georgian Christmas dinners and lunches at Gibside in Tyne and Weir; a Victorian Christmas at Petworth House in Sussex, with mulled wine and roast chestnuts, market stalls selling local produce, fairground attractions, and of course Father Christmas; an Edwardian Christmas at Polesden Lacey in Surrey, or even a roaring twenties celebration at Upton House in Warwickshire – the choice is yours!
Victorian Christmas at Wimpole Hall and Garden, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 December & Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 December 2006.
Visit the Hall traditionally decorated for Christmas and you might even meet some of the servants in the basements; see Victorian costumed characters in the Stable Block and listen to the brass band playing traditional Christmas carols amidst the scent of mulled wine and roast chestnuts.
Telephone: 01223 206000
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