Blaise Castle and Blaise Castle House Museum is located in Bristol, England. Blaise Castle is built on Blaise Hill and was built as a mock castle in the mid-1700s. It is only open during selected Sundays in the summer months, but it is such a small building and there is not really much inside the mock castle to see. The Castle House was designed and built at the end of the 1700s by William Paty, a Bristol merchant and banker.
Blaise Castle House Museum, located at the front of the Blaise Castle Estate, is a small museum that exhibits several items from life in days past, such as stoves, kitchen equipment, heating, lighting, toys, fashion, washing machines, and toilets. It also has a grand room with a few paintings and a shop and a cabinet of curiosities, which was a Victorian tradition to have a cabinet full of unique and original items to start converations.
One room was dedicated to kitchen stoves used in the earlier 1900s, and this also included other kitchen equipment including some items that I have used (hand-cranked juicers to create tomato sauce) and that made me feel a little old.
Also, there were some hand-lanterns in another room that use oil (kerosene) that my parents have had to use a couple different designs of when we lost electricity due to storms when I was a child. It was similar to the pink lamp and the lantern-style lamp on the bottom shelf below.
The room with bath tubs and toilets also contained information about washing clothes, including wash boards and early barrel washing machines.
Toys were featured quite a bit in a couple of the rooms. They included a large selection of dolls' house toys and soldiers.
Another room was designed like a school room with the flip-top desks similar to what I used in school. I have no idea what the desks are like in schools today.
After the visit to the House Museum, I walked on a little forest trail to the castle, which is actually hidden within the forest on a hilltop. It was a steep climb to the top, but the views were nice when you could peek out at them.
That concludes the visit to Blaise Castle. Overall, it does not take long to visit the estate to see the museum and then walk to the castle.
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