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Children's House Trail | Cannon Hall

Children's illustrator and trail designer Emma Metcalfe was commissioned to devise and illustrate a bespoke children's trail for Cannon Hall, a Georgian house set in parkland near Barnsley, Yorkshire.
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Children's illustrated trail with historic house cutaway look inside illustration showing people and rooms
Cannon Hall children's trail fully folded out to reveal cutaway illustration showing Georgian rooms and Victorian kitchen
The ground floor rooms are furnished as they would have been in Georgian times but the first floor rooms are now galleries housing an impressive collection of paintings and ceramics.
Educational cartoon illustration of 18th century ladies drinking tea in Drawing Room
Georgian ladies drinking tea in the Drawing Room
Educational cartoon illustration of 18th century man asleep in Library
Georgian gentleman asleep in his chair in the Library
The Georgian rooms are beautifully furnished but can feel a bit austere. Emma's cutaway illustration of the hall aims to bring the rooms to life by showing people eating drinking tea and playing music as they would have done in Georgian times.
Cannon Hall children's illustrated trail leaflet front cover by Emma Metcalfe
​The 'I spy' style trail aims to encourage children to spend more time in each room, spotting people and animals hidden in the paintings or on the furnishings there, then ticking each one off.

​​Living the High Life at Cannon Hall takes the form of a tall, slim leaflet which opens out to reveal an introductory double page spread about the history of the house, its inhabitants and a timeline of local industrial history.

​This then opens us as a gatefold to reveal the large house cutaway (which can be used as a souvenir poster). On the back cover is a ceramics-themed word search.
Living the High Life at Cannon Hall illustrated children's trail by Emma Metcalfe front cover
Front cover illustration showing Cannon Hall and cartoon versions of the Spencer-Stanhope family
Educational illustated ceramics word search activity for children by Emma Metcalfe
Back cover illustration with 'Searching for Ceramics' illustrated word search activity
Large drawing of look inside historic house magnetic wall activity
Cannon Hall illustrated museum magnetic interactive activitity
Emma also supplied an amended large format version of the Cannon Hall cutaway view artwork for use as a large format magnetic interactive activity within the museum.
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