ENGLISH HERITAGE TEACHERS KIT

ACTIVITIES

Pendennis Castle
What to see and do

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The Tudors Explore the Henrician Gun Tower and Little Dennis; Look at the Tudor costumes in the Education Room; Use the Tudors Discovery Chest; Book a Tudor Time Capsules Discovery Visit (charge applies). The Civil War Period Use the Civil War Discovery Chest; Discuss why the future King Charles II fled the country from Pendennis; See the place where Sir John Arundell and 100 Royalists - men, women, and children - held out for five months against the Parliamentarians when the castle was besieged. World War 2 Book The Home Front: Soldiers and Sirens WW2 Discovery Visit Workshop; Use the WW2 Discovery Chest; Use the Butterworth Cartoons pack; Use the WW2 Oral Histories pack and hear one mans real-life experiences of Pendennis in wartime; Visit Half Moon Battery and go into the underground Magazine (with a guide); Visit the Battery Observation Post and reconstructed war shelter; Visit the Discovery Centre. Landscape / maritime themes Walk around Pendennis headland, looking at the ramparts and discussing why the castle was sited there; Visit Crab Quay and discuss why it is the best landing place on the headland; View St Anthony Head Battery on the other side of the Fal estuary and discuss why and how effectively the Fal Estuary was defended.

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BOOKING AND SITE INFORMATION

W www.english-heritage.org.uk/onlinebooking E bookeducation@english-heritage.org.uk The Engine House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon, SN2 2EH T 0870 333 0606 F 01793 414926