Adult & community groups
Guided visits can focus on architecture, restoration, decorative schemes, social history, collections or the garden.
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Groups & schools
A visit shaped around your group.
Arrange an expert-led experience for societies, schools, colleges, community groups and tour operators.
Who we welcome
Visits can be shaped around the age, interests and practical needs of the group.
Schools & learning
Discuss age-appropriate sessions linked to the Great Fire of Marlborough, domestic life, trade, material culture and local history.
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Share the preferred date, arrival window, party size, transport plan, access needs and required turnaround time.
Start an enquiryLearning approaches
A visit that moves from encounter to evidence.
Rather than treating the photographs as decoration, each one shows a distinct part of the learning experience: meeting people from the past, testing ideas with objects and connecting materials to Marlborough’s trading history.
01 Welcome and orientation
Start with people and place.
Meeting a costumed interpreter helps learners establish the date, the Bayly household and the setting of Marlborough High Street before they move through the historic rooms.
- Best for
- First impressions, chronology and local context
- Learners do
- Observe, question and place the house in time
02 Object-based learning
Use objects to test ideas.
Demonstrations turn unfamiliar tools into evidence. Learners can infer how an object worked, who might have used it and what skill, time or labour it required.
- Best for
- Material culture, domestic work and historical enquiry
- Learners do
- Compare, infer and explain from visible evidence
03 Trade and materials
Connect textiles to a merchant’s household.
Clothing, fibre and colour create a practical route into Thomas Bayly’s business, the household’s wealth and the bright decorative world of the house.
- Best for
- Trade, status, clothing and the senses
- Learners do
- Handle ideas through making, discussion and comparison
Group enquiry
Start with the essentials.
Tell us who is coming, when you would like to visit and what would make the day work well.
- This form is an enquiry, not a confirmed booking.
- We will reply with availability, price and payment arrangements.
- Share mobility, sensory or learning needs so we can plan the route.
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