Go Undercover at Flambards this winter!
Published: 31st October 2016Don’t miss travelling through time this winter. From Saturday 29 October Flambards’ thrilling rides will be closed until Easter 2017 – however the fascinating Indoor Attractions are open throughout the festive season on selected days!
Enjoy authentic history and heritage this winter season. Visitors can head undercover and journey back in time to discover Britain in the Blitz, The War Gallery and Aviation Experience and an entire Victorian Village!
Step back in time to the 1800s and the reign of Queen Victoria into the unique Victorian Village.
With an atmosphere of bustling streets and alleyways, hidden nooks and crannies, the village is an incredible all round sensory experience – think sights, smells and real cobble stone roads!
Groups can wander through the life-size village and discover over 50 scenes. Gaze through shop windows, step inside the local pub, visit the green grocers, ironmongers, butchers, shoemakers and even the apothecary – everything from a schoolroom and blacksmiths to the fire station is authentically recreated with thousands of genuine artefacts.
Discover the world of William White, a pharmacist who lived and worked in Somerset. When he died in 1909, the shop was boarded up by his son who wasn’t qualified to dispense drugs, the shop remained untouched for more than 80 years. The walls are lined with medicine bottles, apothecary jars, quartz carboys, demijohns, pill dispensers and mortars and pestles. This whole shop was carefully installed to Flambards as it was – lock, stock and cobweb!
The Britain in the Blitz exhibition is a life-size re-creation of daily life during the war. Hear the air raid sirens and literally feel the floor shake as another bomb hits its target. A visit will illustrate what life was like on the Home Front. Peep in to a wartime kitchen, a classroom and an evocative railway platform scene showing children evacuating. There are a series of fascinating letters to home sent from children evacuated to Cornwall in order to escape the threat of bombs.
Plus from 3 - 4 December Flambards’ Victorian Village, Britain in the Blitz and bespoke Entertainment Venue will host the popular Christmas Fayre. Back for its 2nd year, the family-friendly fayre will have the all magic of Christmas in this unique location, plus Father Christmas will be visiting throughout the weekend.
The festive stalls will feature around 50 designer-makers, gifts, crafts and goodies as well as delicious food and drink produce.