Bolling Hall Tudor Trail
In Tudor times Bolling Hall was owned by a rich Tudor family called the
Tempests. In Tudor times rich people would often have big feasts with lots of
guests from other rich families.
You have been employed at the Hall as an apprentice and must help the rest of
the servants get ready for their important guests. There are lots of jobs to do…
Answer the questions below to help you remember all the things you will need to
need to know about the house :
Your tasks start in the Warm Kitchen
1) There will be a large delivery of 3 sacks of oatmeal which will be used in the next
months to make bread – where in the kitchen are you going to store the oatmeal?
2) Which of these meats that Tudor guests like to eat is hanging ready to go in a pie?
3) There’s so much to cook you will need more fuel for the fire- what are you going to
bring in from outside ?
Coal
Wood
Paper
4) Bolling Hall is like most Tudor Houses and there are lots of mice in the kitchen– can
you find something to help get rid of the mice? What is it ?
There’s more to do through the door next to the fire in the Cold Kitchen
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5) They’ll be a delivery of goods from other countries to impress the guests .They are
very expensive. Can you find some money to pay for the delivery? Look next to the
money to help you write a list of 3 things that might be delivered:
6) There are cows kept near to the hall to provide food and milk.
You will need to make some butter for the feast.
Find and draw one of the things in this room that you would use to help you make
butter.
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Go back through the kitchen and through to the main hall of the house- this is
called the house body and is where the feast will take place.
8) The hall will need to look its best for the guests. The Tempests are very proud of
their expensive stained glass windows - The glass windows will need to be nice and
clean with special attention paid to the Tempest family crest and shield. Can you find
them in the window?
What can you see on the crests that will help you remember which ones they are?
9) The morning after the feast there will be a hunt in the woods surrounding Tudor
Bradford. Which animals are mounted up on the walls that have been killed on hunts
before?
10) Your rich guests will eat lots of sugary food at the feast. If someone gets a
toothache while they are staying at Bolling Hall it would be your job as a servant to pull
out the aching tooth – can you find something to do this with?
Go up the main staircase and into the first room you come to- this is a guests
room or the ghost room.
It is the most decorated room in the house and the ceiling tells you things about your
Tudor employers (The Tempests) that you might want to remember.
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11) Can you find these things in the ceiling and draw them in the boxes below:
Monkey- this shows a bold and
cunning nature
Boars head - this is the symbol
of Bradford
Rose - this shows royal links
Vines- this shows the Tempests
are wealthy
Leave the guest room and turn left and walk round the corner until you get to the
blue bedroom.
This is Robert Tempests bedroom and it’s important you keep it nice and tidy as
guests will be brought in here to talk, play games and eat.
12) How many guests will you be able to fit in this room – how many single wooden
chairs are there?
13) What kind of food do you think they might ask you to make in here using stale
bread and the special metal tool near the fireplace?
Time to move through to the green bedroom to think about the last lot of tasks
you will need to do!
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14) The beds will need to be made – the mattresses are held up by pieces of rope
which need to be tightened. Can you find an iron bed key that you would use to tighten
the bed ropes?
15) In the corner of this room is a smaller room with a curtain ‘the garderobe’. There
are no other rooms like this in the rest of the house and no one has told you what it is
used for. Can you look at it and try to work out what it is used for?
16) You will need to hang up the mistresses best clothes up in the garderobe. This is
to make sure they pick up some of the smells to put off the moths ! What else can you
find that you could use to help the clothes or mistress Tempest smell better? Circle the
things that Tudors would have used to help them smell nice!
Balls of soap
Perfume
Pomanders
Shampoo
17) There are lots of storage chests in the room. You will need to tidy clothes into one
of them and valuables in the other. Which chest will you put clothes in, which will you
put valuables in – why?
Phew – what a lot of work there is to do ! You had better check you have all the
information correct so you do everything right . They’ll be no more work for
apprentices who make mistakes!
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