Two hundred years ago, the enlightened entrepreneur Robert Owen created a model village for his mill workers. Children’s meals pounds 1.75.Toilets: Good facilities throughout the site.PIT STOPThe Quay at Cotehele St Dominick, near Saltash (01579 350024)A stretch of woodland separates Cotehele Quay from Cotehele House (near the village of Callington). It is now a tea room where refreshments are available all day: home-made soup (pounds 2.35), fisherman’s lunch (pounds 3.95), jacket potatoes (pounds 2.95), treacle tart and clotted cream (pounds 2.95) Children’s portions are available New this year is a sea lawn.From Egon Ronay’s guide `.. and children come too’ (Bookman, pounds 9.99). On the quayside, amid a row of 18th- and 19th- century houses, the National Trust’s Edgcumbe Arms is set in a former time-worker’s cottage which later became a public house.
A daily agenda of special events is issued with your ticket, which includes demonstrations, photo opportunities, harbour master’s tour and children’s workshops.Food: the Ship Inn Restaurant serves ale in brown jars and a selection of very hearty pasties pounds 2.75. Family ticket (two adults, two children) pounds 21, adult pounds 7.90, children pounds 5,50, OAP pounds 7. Return tickets valid for one year at reduced cost.Access: Expect to do a lot of walking. Disabled access is poor, buggies are hard work.Attractions: Small playground, traditional games in school playground. Average visit four to six hours.Admission: Tickets include a ride in a horse-driven carriage and the train trip into the copper mine. (Check the time of mine tours and carriage rides on arrival.) Last admission two hours before closing time.
The lady who dressed me said that this is what I would have worn to go to church. I looked really nice.I enjoyed playing in the school playground where there were lots of old sorts of games like skipping, fishing, hopscotch, marbles and skittles. We play some of these at my school.ClaudiaAt the farm we saw some horses with long hairy legs, chickens, rabbits, goats and a black turkey with a pink face and a wobbly nose. I went on a train into a tunnel which was really dark and very scary for Polly.The dealGetting there. Morwellham Quay, near Tavistock, Devon (01822 833808) is off the A390 near Tavistock. Free Parking on site.Opening times: 10am-5.30pm daily, Nov-Easter, 10am-4.30pm, copper mine and grounds only Dogs on leads.
I had a long checked skirt, a cape, a little straw hat and a muff to keep my hands warm. It looks very old and there are lots of people dressed up in olden-day clothes – ladies in long skirts and men in tall black hats We were allowed to dress up, too. I never realised you could make electricity with water.PollyMorwellham Quay is in a very nice place beside the river. Upstairs, the children shared one bed and there was a room with a coffin in it.I found it all interesting but I really liked seeing the power station where they make hydro-electric power. They had models of miners cutting the rock away: just men and boys, some only eight years old They got very cold, wet and dirty The dust made them ill and the noise made them go deaf It was a horrible job. The women and girls worked above the mine, separating the copper from the rock.The cottage was very pretty and filled with old furniture and some lovely sewing There was an old newspaper with no pictures.