New brochure 2016 inc saks and hart - final version
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New brochure 2016 inc saks and hart - final version
The Costume Collection We have what is acknowledged as one of Scotland’s finest Costume collections. Over two thousand pieces of Dress and textiles, dating from 1775 to the present day, are beautifully displayed in annual exhibitions. Below are some examples of recent exhibitions, lingerie from the Twenties, frocks and furs from the Forties, and crinolines from the Victorians. The Coffee Room is open to all visitors to the site. It serves light lunches, home made soups, delicious home baking and very very good coffee. We are pleased to welcome groups and coaches, but prebooking is essential. A Menu can be found on the Museum website, and like the Museum we are open all year, but like them we close over Christmas and the New Year. 01294 552448 Specialising in home interiors and gifts, Saks & Hart is situated in the Old Byre at Dalgarven Mill, and offers a range of beautiful furniture, mirrors, lighting, fabric and home accessories, as well as a range of elegant gifts and exquisitely scented candles. More information can be found on their website. Open Wednesday to Sunday. www.saksandhart.com Saks & Hart Ltd 01294 554535 Dalgarven Mill Museum of Country Life and Costume KILWINNING, KA 13 6 PL Dalgarven Mill Museum @DalgarvenMill DalgarvenMill with We are open all year, but closed on Mondays and over the Christmas and New Year period. See Saks & Hart website for different opening times . Easter to October Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00 From October 1st. to Easter the times remain the same, except we close at 16.00 on weekdays. How to find us: There is a Google map on the Website or KA13 6PL for Sat Nav. Or put more simply, we are in the village of Dalgarven on the A737 between Kilwinning and Dalry in North Ayrshire. ' The Miller’s Kitchen ' Coffee Room and SAKS & HART Country & Period Living www.dalgarvenmill.org.uk [email protected] Scottish Charity SC 022937 Accredited Museum Dalgarven Mill Museum of Country Life and Costume The Dalgarven Mills Country Life Collection Grain Mill As an industrial architectural gem in deepest rural Ayrshire, you will find it gentle, lovely, absorbing and different-why not make it an unmissable experience on your visit to the district. Birds and wildflowers abound on our delightful riverside walk, and you can enjoy the home baking and freshly made food in our Coffee Room. The three floors of this old building are illuminated by the lives of the past rural community, farmers, blacksmiths, joiners, wheelwrights, saddlers, dairymen, cheese makers, road menders and others. Visit their homes, see their clothes and furniture, and many other elements of their daily lives. Scotland once thrived on 'hard work, godliness and honest poverty.' At one time the mill provided eighty percent of all the food we ate. Porridge, brose and oatcakes being literally the stuff of life. Come and enjoy the machinery of the only local working waterwheel, and learn to appreciate the skills of the millers and the role they and their mills played in Scottish history. The last hundred years have seen a revolution in rural life, the large number of people who depended on casual work on the land for their income, and the craftsmen who serviced the farms and villages, have also disappeared. Their story is told on three floors in what has recently been described as " a museum of rural life that knocks all others into a cocked hat " Our ancestors lives, tools, machinery, photographs, furniture and clothes are set out in attractive and informative displays fitted into the character filled spaces of the historic listed buildings. You are assured of a warm welcome, good food and an interesting experience in this four star visitor attraction. The grain, wheat and oats, come to the Mill from the farm and by the power of the waterwheel it is hoisted to the top floor or garret, and is then emptied into the main hoppers. From there it is fed down through the mill stones, which make it into flour or oatmeal, after grinding, elevators carry the flour back to the top floor from where it passes down through the graders to be made into fine , medium or coarse flour or oatmeal as required. It is then put into the sacks for delivery back to the customer. The process has changed little since the introduction of cast iron gearing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and now stone ground flour is enjoying a renaissance. There have been two mills here since 1614, but the original mill dates from 1203. Both of these mills were powered by the water of the River Garnock, as is the present mill. After a fire in 1869, the present very large mill and granaries were built, and the weir, lades and sluices improved. The courtyard that the visitor now enters was created by the addition of a miller’s house, stables, byres and barns. The Victorian grain mill has also been re-created and the water wheel is again operational, and turns daily in summer, river conditions permitting. The riverside walk and the new view point allow visitors to enjoy the beauty of this unique corner of Ayrshire at their leisure.