The much loved CBeebies character ‘Tree Fu Tom’ will be taking a break from his adventures in Treetopolis to come to Eastnor Castle on Sunday 29th June.
Come along and meet and greet ‘Tree Fu Tom’ who will be making personal appearances at intervals throughout the day in the castle courtyard. Bring your cameras for a photo opportunity with your little ones.
“This should be a really exciting day for any young Tree Fu Tom fans as they will get to see this magical superhero in person in the castle courtyard” said David Littlewood, General Manager.
All the usual castle attractions will be open, including the Knight’s Maze, full-size-play Land Rover Defender, mini Zip Wire, Burma Bridge Tree Top Walk Way and Adventure Playground, Tearoom, Gift Shop and Ice Cream Parlour.
Open from 11am to 4.30pm and admission is Castle & Grounds – to buy tickets click here.
We held our vintage day over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend and attracted over 3000 visitors over 2 days. Although we do not aspire to compete with the great vintage weekend at Goodwood, The Goodwood Revival; we invite a reasonable range of historic vehicles along and the variety appeals to our public. We received a generous review afterwards on Trip Advisor, which was very nice.
It is certainly not a festival of speed either, rather the opposite, with steam and diesel rollers (max speed perhaps 5mph), a Foden 5 ton wagon (max speed not much more) and a large traction engine, a re-import from Tasmania, and my Ransomes Sims & Jefferies 1915 8 3/4 ton agricultural traction engine, which was spontaneously pressed into work shown in the image. The tug of war is always popular as it is, at least on one side, a team game, with simple rules and little need for fitness and training, in fact, being slightly overweight may help. There are 3 pulls, and this time the engine was beaten 2:1. In an earlier competition, one or two visitors slipped on the gravel, not a ‘fair’ surface on which to compete, though it is a level playing field in the strict sense, and there were some grazed knees, but luckily not this time.
Other exhibits included the estate Morris 28hp petrol lorry, an Austin 7, a Stanley steam car, two living and one showman’s vans and hand-driven carousel. There was a guest appearance from a Mini club, with some fine traditional Minis and a few spun-off designs. My own Foden 6 to the steam tractor was not available as it is still away recovering from the fitting of a majorly repaired boiler, the first since new in 1928. I hope it will be the star of the show next year.
J H-B 14 June ’14