Geoff and Darrell spent a very enjoyable morning at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port.
They were holding an event involving Soldiers, sailors, merchants and housewives from 1000 years of Cheshire history and beyond bringing the National Waterways Museum to life, as part of the Warriors and Washerwomen Living History Fair.
This colourful weekend will saw the museum taken over by re-enactors from many different periods giving a living, walking and talking exhibition of the history of Cheshire.
We walked around the site and met fearsome Vikings, Medieval artists, English Civil War soldiers, Redcoats and Cavalrymen from the colourful Napoleonic era, American Civil War soldiers and found out about the North-Wests links to that conflict, and even families inhabiting the historic row of cottages in the museum.
Also included were firing demonstrations, drills and other shows of old skills were taking place around the museum’s seven acres during the day.
The re-enactors were very friendly and valiantly put up with Geoff and myself directing them, with cameras “in their face”. Expect a few of today’s shots to turn up, in one guise or another, in the coming season.
