Demonstration Days
PORLOCK APPLE PRESS
Porlock Apple Press
Demonstration Pressing Days
Sadly, we can no longer use our old press at the Old School Centre Garden
to perform demonstration pressings.
The press has been retired from any further use due to its age and wear & tear.
So, to keep her as original as possible for people to see, as a museum piece so to speak, she has been put into a preserved and conserved condition.
(The unwarranted behaviour of a local body had accelerated that inevitability too.)
Our work fulfilling our aims as a preservation society
continues however. We are excited about the potential and development
of some projects & ideas for the future!
We do have another press which is a portable one!
It was made around 1890, it's on cast iron wheels and was designed to be pulled from farm to farm behind an Ox or a heavy horse. There is a little more restoration to be done, but hopefully we should be ready for the 2027 apple harvest at various locations around Porlock and the Porlock Vale.
We'll keep everyone up to date with progress here.
This website will be updated with
our plans as soon as they become available.
*** This is what we used to do ***
Porlock Apple Press Demonstration Pressing Day
An opportunity to see our old press in action - and it's free!
The Old School Centre Orchard Garden, 10.00am to 3.30pm (ish!)
Porlock Apple Press Group members will be present using our old press and ancillary equipment and you are free to observe.
A look back to the old craft of apple juice production... centred around our early 1800's 'Somerset Pattern' apple press, pressing many tons of apples into fresh juice for you to taste and is free for you to take away (with an invitation to make a donation... please).
Add to this some hearty singing of some cider songs (you are invited to join as well!), vintage engines and machinery in action... means the traditional method of pressing apple juice is preserved for the benefit of future generations. The best bit..... IT'S FREE!
On-site loo - Parking is only 150yds away.
Porlock Apple Press Group are a not-for-profit entity, trying our best to preserve the apple growing & cider making history of this part of Exmoor, and the proceeds from this event all go towards that aim.
*** This is what we used to do ***
Porlock Apple Press Group
Health & Safety Policy Statement
Porlock Apple Press Group
Demonstration Pressings - Risk Assessment
(A living document subject to continuous review)
