Shrugborough
June 28th, 2010 Posted in Family, TravelsWe spent our last Saturday in England with good friends, the Drijfhout family, at Shrugborough. If you only have a little bit of time and want a taste of England this is a really great place to visit. It had the old English mansion/stately home, gorgeous landscape with pastureland and statuary, as well as a working farm. There were also locals who used old fashioned craft materials to demonstate and sell their wares. So much to do at one place. We didn’t have time to walk around the property beyond the buildings themselves.
The Grand Home (front)
(back)
Gardener’s Cottage and garden:
Working Farm and Farmhouse:
Cool cows:
Some images from in the Grand House:
In the laundry there was an iron stove, as in, a stove expressly built to heat irons. I thought this was really cool. The irons each had a place of their own and there were several different shaped iron each for different parts of clothing; flat or curved bottom, pointed or round tipped. I’ve seen the irons before but never the stove.
The girls wearing servants’/maids’ clothing:
The toy room (a very poor photo). There were some really awesome toys in that room. The kids wanted to go beyond the barriers and play for a bit.
Enjoy!
Diana