URPoint Details
Historic garden accessible to wheelchair users attractions for visually impaired visitors include talking map, varied smells and noises from machinery, waterwheel and inter-active water-powered exhibits. Numerous items may be touched, including cotton samples at different stages of processing. Braille and large print guides, building unsuitable for guide dogs audiotapes with induction loop, leaflets available.
The original Apprentice House, as lived in by mill apprentices in 1830, is fully restored.
Re-creations of a 19th century kitchen garden of over an acre in the grounds of the Apprentice House at Quarry Bank Mill. About 100 children lived in the house and laboured daily in the cotton mill. The garden had to provide food for the hungry children, so nothing exotic or luxurious was ever grown. The 19th century varieties of fruit, vegetables and herbs are grown using methods and materials of the period. Local varieties of fruit and vegetables are also featured, such as 'Early Timperley' rhubarb and 'Withington's Welter' apple - both named after nearby villages.
- Type:
- Landmark