Measuring the Trees Adam and Eve with School for blind and Dovecote

This video shows groups from the School for the Blind and Dovecote during our sensory tour measuring the Yew trees in the courtyard of Speke Hall with people. The idea was that the number of people would tell us how old the tree was, it also gave us an opportunity to feel the trunk of the tree. Mark commented it was like giving your aunties a hug!

More from the Sensory tour with the School for Blind and Dovecote

Linda feeling a lace handkerchief.

Tour the hall, Kate Allen with Dovecot & Halewood groups

Several members of the group noticed clocks in the hall, Linda said I "I have one at home"The group enjoyed looking at the pictures on the table, good wheelchair height for Barry and somethings they were allowed to touch. They all liked and noticed patterns alot during the visit from the woodcarvings to the wallpaper. Below is Dawn in the Gun Room. Her favorite room was one of the bedrooms upstairs with the cot and the brushes she remembered being allowed to sit on the bed when she visited as a child, she seemed to be able to elaborate on the experience creating the idea of a past life where she had been a child from the past and said she believed in ghosts. She would like it if there was a brush she was allowed to hold in the room. Wheelchair view point, clock and dining table.
In the Billiard room another wheelchair viewpoint with the volunteer telling about Frederick Leyland. I really liked the repetition of the lamps. Group photos from the first group tour with Kate. The picture below is the group hearing about the carving of the tudor family.
The group in the great hall.
Group in the gun room.
Pic below shows Jess showing the group the tudor methods of showing respect.