Build the Fort

As well as engineers and surveyors, it took hundreds of skilled labourers called ‘navvies’ to erect this massive red brick defence.

Could you be a surveyor? A muck shifter? Or a bricklayer? Do you have what it takes to be a navvy? Or perhaps you could design your own Fort Nelson or a ditch digging machine. It’s time to roll up your sleeves and find out! 

Each summer holiday weekend there will be several themed activities such as:  

• Wacky wheelbarrow work  
• Building brilliant brick walls
• Amazingly ambitious arches
• Fashioning Fort Nelson
• Designing daunting defences
• Making monster muck movers
• Navvy narratives

These free sessions will start at 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2:00pm and 3:00pm, and will last between 20 and 30 minutes and are suitable for ages 5 to 12.

Six summer weekends packed full of fun activities:

• 27 and 28 July
• 3 and 4 August
• 10 and 11 August
• 17 and 18 August
• 24 and 25 August
• 31 August and 1 September

So grab your navvy passport, collect all the stickers and at the end of the summer claim a special ‘payment’ for all your hard work.