Heritage Cafe in South Ribble

Really awful experience today. We went as a part of a home education outing to visit the house and ghost trail. We had completely missed the signs about no food or eating on site (very badly signposted and hard to spot signs may I add). My two children were eating a sandwich in an outside area and we was approached and told to not eat any food on site. We packed our food away. My son wanted to finish up his crisps so I let him. 5 minutes later I was approached again and threatened that if he did not get rid of them we could be told to leave the site. Although I completely appreciate they don’t charge entry and food needs to be bought on site, it wasn’t clearly sign posted and I initially responded understanding, when approached the second time I was absolutely disgusted, as I was not going to physically remove the food from my son. I don’t think I’ll ever return as we continued to be watched through the window and felt very uncomfortable and intimated. We later found a sign on the park that stated ‘don’t be naughty and eat in the park or your own car’. Completely unbelievable.