点评:The best of the National Trust! We travelled up from Gloucester for a week to explore the local area, Quarry Bank was on our ‘must do’ list. We first visited on a Tuesday and had a wonderful tour of the apprentice house with Amanda. Later on we went down to the Mill & soon realised we’d need to come back to see it all! We returned on Thursday and had an atmospheric tour of the cottage with Iona who bought the stories of some of the residents to life, then we saw Quarry Bank House. We then wanted to see the Mule (cotton thread spinning machine) in action, so returned on Saturday where Elizabeth did an excellent demonstration- so good that we returned 3 times to see it! An amazing piece of equipment, well done to Elizabeth and the team for keeping it running and explaining it so well and with such passion.
So we spent 3 days at Quarry bank and I feel that I could’ve spent even longer here and still not get bored. The gardens are lovely, woodland and riverside walks and lots more to explore. The shop was great and we treated ourselves to lots of goodies and plants!
We go to a lot of NT properties and this has to be the best we’ve been to. The stories of the people of the past are told respectfully and with carefully researched detail - just perfect.
We hope that this can be recreated at Ironbridge, that would be fantastic!
Well done team Quarry Bank ☺️
翻译:国民信托的精华所在!我们从格洛斯特出发,花了一周时间探索周边地区,采石场庄园(Quarry Bank)是我们“必游之地”。我们周二第一次来,在阿曼达的带领下参观了学徒小屋,非常精彩。之后我们去了磨坊,很快就意识到我们需要再来一次才能看完所有景点!周四我们再次来到庄园,在伊奥娜的讲解下参观了小屋,她生动地讲述了一些住户的故事,让我们仿佛身临其境。之后我们参观了采石场庄园主楼。我们想亲眼看看骡机(棉线纺纱机)的运作,所以周六又来了一次,伊丽莎白做了精彩的演示——精彩到我们看了三次!这台机器真是太棒了,伊丽莎白和她的团队维护得非常好,讲解也如此透彻热情。
我们在采石场庄园待了三天,我觉得即使待更久也不会觉得无聊。花园很漂亮,还有林地和河畔步道,以及更多值得探索的地方。这家店太棒了,我们买了好多好吃的和植物!
我们去过很多国家名胜古迹信托基金会旗下的景点,这家绝对是我们去过的最好的。这里讲述的都是过去人们的故事,既尊重历史,又细节考证严谨——简直完美。
我们希望艾恩布里奇也能有这样的体验,那就太棒了!
采石场银行团队,干得漂亮!☺️