Bring your family to a Tudor picnic at Sandsfoot Castle
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Location
Sandsfoot Castle and Gardens
Weymouth
Celebrate the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s coronation in the grounds of our own Tudor Castle with a family picnic, bring your own food, use Tudor recipes if you like, or buy at the Castle Cafe and be entertained with a variety of Tudor events, cooking, games, music, dancing, story telling, Why not come in costume there will be prizes for both adults and children for the best costume.
At 10am, noon and 2pm
Tours with a Tudor guide around Sandsfoot Castle lasting 20-30 minutes
At 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm
Games, interactive demonstration with public participation of Kings Game, Blind Mans Bluff, Nine Men’s Morris, Tug-of-War and a Tudor version of French Cricket
At 11am, 1pm and 3pm
Bows, Guns and Bullets, 20-30 minute demonstrations of archery and musketry followed by Pike Drill for “young soldiers of the King”.
At 3.30pm
Mummers Play, a light hearted look at that good old villain ‘Robyn Hoade’
Throughout the day
Cooking demonstrations of dishes such as Mackerel and Sandfire, Sweet cubes of jellied milk, Crab tart, Tudor Salad, Gingerbread, Knot biscuits, Marchpane, Tea and Drop Scones. These will be demonstrated to be edible but can not be offered to the public due to various regulations/insurance issues
Quoits and Skittles Tournaments
Music and Tudor dancing by ‘Ye Olde Franklin Players’ and the Dorchester Historical Dance Group
Crowns and coronet making for children by well known local milliners ‘TG Hatters’
Pomander making
Storytelling with a Tudor theme for children by Weymouth Library, times to be announced.
There will be a Tudor dress costume competition for adults and children.
Refreshments will be available at the Cafe in the gardens but we will be publishing suitable Tudor recipes before the event that we would like the public to make and bring along for their own consumption
