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Wartime Christmas with Father Christmas

Wartime Christmas with Father Christmas

Belsay Hall & Gardens

Sat 23rd Nov 2013 to Sun 24th Nov 2013

11:00am to 4:00pm

Meet our Father Christmas dressed in traditional colourful costume, reciting famous yuletide stories and poems. Join the audience to relax and listen to these heart warming stories, there will be opportunity for photos. You can also hear tales of  Christmases past in performances of 1940’s Wartime Christmas traditions with Meakin the Butler. Wrap up warm and come and shop for unique Christmas gifts and sample English Heritage’s own range of liqueurs and seasonal treats. Do dress warm, the Hall is unheated.

£7.90/ £7.10/ £4.70/ £20.50
EH Members free

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