ORDSALL HALL TRIP SALFORD
Enjoy looking at the photos from our 'awesome' (Joe George quote) trip to Ordsall Hall today.
We learnt how to prepare for a wedding feast; the pecking order of sitting at the Lord and Lady's table; the rooms owned by Lord and Lady Radclyffe, the importance of herbs and spices and many other important details learned within this original Tudor building.
This is a trip to be remembered!
Lady Agnes put us in our place!
We were the Lord and Lady for the day.
Servants stood behind the Lords, Ladies, Merchants and farmers - spot the jester!
We ate on silver plates as we were Ladies.
We were the farmers and ate from square plates hence the saying 'Three square meals a day'
The merchants ate from pewter plates and tankards.
The servants brought game pie and boar's head to the rich
The merchants and farmers ate bread; white bread only for the lords and ladies, brown bread for the merchants but horse bread for the farmers.
Spot the gilted gingerbread with real gold!
I am Henry VIII I am I am!
We played the parts of his wives
His wives' admirers!
His children
and successors
The Radclyffe bed is hundreds of years old
I wore the full chain-mail - so heavy!
This was Lady Agnes' bed. Night Night!
Toys
This special leather bound book was made by French monks and written in Ye Olde Englysh.!
Inside! Can you read it?
We filled bags with mint
All together outside
Put to work fetching the water with the yoke and buckets
learning about herbs and spices
Burning the candle at both ends; the beeswax candle and the poor man's candle made out of a blade of grass covered in animal fat and burnt at both ends.
grinding the herbs and spices
experiencing the attic where all 60-80 servants would sleep at night.
The knot gardens
At the end of a brilliant day
Chase those rats away.
Wouldn't we love to have a bed like this?
Now what was the pecking order?
It's no 'yoke' carrying the water is it?
It's r'eel'y slimy.
Herbs and spices from near and far.
Kalle's the spit boy. Keep turning! A few more hours anyway!
Half pig, half chicken
What are you drinking, Joel?
Have faith............don't spill a drop!
You have the strength, Tom.
If I let go og my finger what will happen?
Sleeping in the attic.
Some lunch there Joe! You certainly won't go hungry
Home made potage! Yum!
Well read!
What fantastic achievement
different shades of red made the rose look real
Definitely kept going to the bitter end!
so many colours........................
so much patience.......................
such a relief.....................
mine has the rustic look!
Such joy!
we will look at them all year
..............and longer
