Tag: Travel
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Pickwick in the Park: Cut-out coach card Christmas Craft Activity!
Introduction This activity follows on from the Pickwick in the Park: Seasonal Soundscapes Activity, which explores the auditory environment with particular regard to the location of toll-roads and -gates near and next to Markeaton Park in the 1830s – as discussed in the Interactive Guide. The guide also considered the significance of coach travel at…
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Pickwick in the Park: Seasonal Soundscapes Activity
The Dickensian Derbyshire Country Christmas Interactive Guide considers the sights, sounds, and other sensations that visitors to Markeaton Hall could have encountered in the late Georgian – early Victorian era (1820s – 1830s), including those from the immediate environs, such as adjacent roads. The guide therefore discusses nearby toll-roads and -houses shown on mid-1830s maps…