Explore Brodsworth Hall's gardens with the Alice in Wonderland trail
*** New pictures of Alice in the garden at Brodsworth Hall attached ***
Saturday 31 March & Sunday 1 April 2012
Tuesday 3 – Sunday 15 April 2012
You don’t need to fall down a rabbit hole this Easter to find your way to wonderland, simply follow the brown signs to Brodsworth Hall & Gardens, nearDoncaster, which is hosting two weeks ofAlicein Wonderland themed trails around the stunningly restored gardens.
From Saturday 31 March to Sunday 15 April (excluding Monday 2 April), the gardens, which were designed in the 19thcentury to create a surprise around every corner, will have another six unusual features – mirrors which promise to squash and stretch the reflections of visitors to recreate the growing and shrinking experienced by Alice in her trip to Wonderland in Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s novel.
“This is a great way for people of all ages to enjoy Easter, and unlike Alice in the original stories, we have not one looking glass but six, all hidden around the gardens, just waiting to be discovered by curious and curiouser visitors!” says English Heritage’s regional events manager, Jon Hogan. “We’re just hoping that we don’t get any white rabbits in the gardens – they play havoc with the lawns and eat some of the beautiful plants that our gardening team has put in to add colour in the summer months!”
The gardens at Brodsworth Hall have often been compared toAlice’s Wonderland, with bridges, and tunnels connecting paths within different parts of the garden to make exploring the restored Victorian gardens a real pleasure. There’s even a croquet lawn, although users generally use traditional mallets and balls rather than flamingos and hedgehogs!
The enchanting trail runs each day (except Monday 2 April) during the Easter holidays (31 March to 15 April) within the gardens of Brodsworth Hall. Admission prices are £5.70 for adults, £5.10 for concessions and £3.10 for children, which includes entry to the gardens and the Servant’s Wing. Entry to the Hall is available for an additional fee. English Heritage members get in free.
The Magic Mirror Garden & Alice in Wonderland Trail is the first of Brodsworth Hall’s exciting programme of events for 2012, which will include a chance to wander around the house by candlelight on 18 & 19 May, a Right Royal Weekend for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (3-5 June), afternoon band concerts every Sunday throughout the summer, and the return of the autumn son-et-lumiere spectacular, The Enchanted Garden, from 26 October to 4 November.
For more information, please visit www.english-heritage.org.uk/brodsworthhall or call 0870 333 1183.
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Pictures show: Alice (Gabriella Commins) finds the gardens at Brodsworth Hall curioser and curioser as she follows the Wonderland mirror trail...
For further media information, please contact:
Jay Commins – PRO English Heritage (Yorkshire)
Tel: 0113 251 5698
Mob: 07810 546567
Email: jay@fim.org.uk
