The taproom is open Thursday to Sunday, an you’re free to bring your own meals and snacks, or order in from a local restaurant with a delivery app.ħ. Some of the picks were Ophilia’s Choco Stout, North London (English-style ale), Farmtree Ale (a French-style saison) and Hey Little Buddy (a peach/mango session IPA). There’s an ever-changing selection of unfiltered brews on tap, but when we compiled this list in July 2019, the taproom had a selection of eight. facebook 2nd Bridge Brewing Co.Ī striking brick-built factory at Haillard Mills, America’s oldest woollen mill site, is the home of 2nd Bridge Brewing Co., a craft brewery established in 2015. The Fire Museum is the base for the Connecticut Firemen’s Historical Society, and its marvellous inventory of fire-fighting apparatus and memorabilia is laid out on three floors.Īlong with communication equipment, paintings, colonial-era leather buckets, sprinkler systems, helmets, 19th-century photographs there’s a wonderful display of engines, both horse-drawn and motorised.Ī favourite is the Ahrens Fox Pumper from 1921 and still in working order, as well as the 1912 Seagrave Chemical Engine on the first floor. Surrounded by the handsome red brick buildings of the Cheney Brothers Historic District, this lovable museum is in a firehouse from 1901 built by the local volunteer fire-fighting force with funds donated by the Cheney family. The Fire Museum Source: Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum / facebook The Fire Museum Wickham Park also has an aviary, a nature centre/museum, three playgrounds, a disc golf course, facilities for a wide range of sports and concessions on weekends and holidays.ĥ. Wickham Park has an arboretum with more than 250 labelled trees and shrubs, as well as nine exquisite gardens, like a walled Irish garden, an Oriental Garden on a pond bordered by a torii archway, and, at the highest point, a Cabin Garden & Amphitheatre endowed with a panoramas of Hartford. You’ll agree that entrance is worth every penny of the price when you see this tapestry of gardens and leisure facilities spreading out over 280 acres. This park on both sides of the town-line with East Hartford, is maintained by a non-profit private foundation and charges a small fee for all vehicles. Wickham Park Source: Pugalenthi Iniabarathi / shutterstock Wickham Park Let’s explore the best things to do in Manchester: 1. In other parts, Manchester is a city with a surplus of parkland, at Case Mountain and the sumptuous Wickham Park, both of which have high ground overlooking Hartford to the west. Cheney Hall here is still a pillar of Manchester’s arts scene, and the silk mill’s old machine shop houses the Manchester Historical Society. Even more than a century after their silk empire was at its peak, you can’t talk about Manchester without mentioning the Cheneys.Ī big slice of the south of this city, east of Hartford, belongs to the Cheney Brothers Historic District where you can see the great brick-built mills accompanied by 19th-century worker communities designed according to the Cheneys’ principles of “welfare capitalism”.
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