HISTORY enthusiasts can experience winters of years gone by at a special event being held at Avoncroft Museum this weekend.
The ‘Bleak Midwinter’ living history events will take place between 10.30am and 4pm, both Saturday and Sunday (January 28 and 29).
Costumed re-enactors will demonstrate how people lived during the harsh winters in Tudor and Victorian times and in the 1940s.
Throughout the weekend, visitors will be able to see how people survived without modern conveniences, thanks to traditional cooking and preserving, along with craft techniques.
There will be Tudor cookery and leather work in the Town House, Victorian cooking, preserving, baking and ‘rag-rugging’ in the Toll House and traditional sweet- making and hand crafts in the Prefab. There will also be the chance to tour the inside of the windmill, while younger visitors will be able to make bird feeders using natural materials. The weekend coincides with the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Visitors will be able to chat to the costumed characters, join in some of their activities and talk to the museum’s experts in the Guesten Hall who will provide some historical background and answer questions.
Hot refreshments will be available, including mulled cider and a barbecue and the Edwardian Tearoom will also be open.
Admission (including a voluntary gift aid contribution) is £5.50 for adults, £4.40 for seniors and £3 for children aged five and over.
Under fives are free.
For more information, visit www.avoncroft.org.uk or call 01527 831363.
