The Victorian Village
A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES
From the small beginnings of just three rooms in 1979, the Village has grown, through the years, to a complement of some 50 shops and cottages, etc. together with all the attendant trades necessary for Victorian Village life: the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker - they are all there...
The streets are cobbled with granite setts, salvaged from the old streets of Bath in the 1960s,while the wood-block floor of the schoolroom had already felt the tread and scuffs of thousands of clogs and hob-nailed boots, before being salvaged from the demolition of a Victorian school somewhere ‘up North’ and transported to Flambards. Who knows? They might serve their original purpose for yet another hundred years.
FACTS AND FIGURES ARE EASILY PUT INTO WORDS, BUT FINDING WORDS TO ADEQUATELY CONVEY THE ATMOSPHERE AND TOTAL CHARM OF FLAMBARDS VILLAGE IS INDEED A CHALLENGE.
It is unique. It has to be experienced to be believed.
