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Post by mouse on Sept 7, 2016 5:27:57 GMT -5
some where well worth a visit. 'I spent three years hoovering'! Family prepare to move into 11th century country house which has starred in blockbuster films – 200 years after the last inhabitants moved out Lord and Lady Edward Manners will be moving into the Tudor manor house Haddon Hall, in Derbyshire The home has featured in several film adaptations of Jane Eyre and the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice It is just three miles from Chatsworth House and lay empty from 1700 until the 1920s A beautiful country house often used in British period dramas is to become a family home once again - almost two centuries since the last inhabitants moved out. Lord and Lady Edward Manners and their toddler sons will be moving into the Tudor manor house Haddon Hall, in Bakewell, Derbyshire, parts of which date back to the 11th century. The home, described as being one of the most romantic in the UK, has featured in several film adaptations of Jane Eyre, the film Elizabeth, the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, The Other Boleyn Girl and the Princess Diaries Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3776767/Family-prepare-11th-century-country-house-starred-blockbuster-films-200-years-inhabitants-moved-out.html#ixzz4JZ418BMz Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 20:10:08 GMT -5
beautiful but to much home for one family...
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Post by Sysop3 on Sept 11, 2016 20:15:11 GMT -5
I'd hate to have to heat it in the winter!
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Post by beth on Sept 11, 2016 20:49:28 GMT -5
Maybe that's because he never tried to take you in. Obama has never been a phony. If that's what you're lookihg for then Trump is probably your man. What are you talking about? lololol I think he got his post on the wrong thread, Chef. I'll fix it if I can find where it went. Fixed!
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Post by mouse on Sept 12, 2016 6:48:58 GMT -5
beautiful but to much home for one family... but it isn't just one family though..it houses in the main house and estate every one required to keep such a house going..in fact much of it couldn't be livable the old kitchens for instance still as they were in the 11th and 15th century..on show to visitors the main entrance hall/room is still used for official occasions and the main dinning room too along with the large gallery and they along with various other parts including the royal bedroom are open to the public during the summer months its a beautiful old place....the catelated enterence court yard is a gem so its not just one family....even today there will be resident staff these old houses were built to be self sustaining with room for all those employed to keep the house and estate in working order theres a small town nearby called Bakewell..it too has some lovely old buildings and some good shopping in independent shops[no chain stores ] ...the town is most famous for its Bakewell tart and get too touristy in the summer months....plus Chatsworth and its estate is only about three miles or so away from Haddon... its some where we go quite often for lunch as our favourite restaurant is just a mile of so along from Haddon and it used to be an old manner house owned by the same people who own Haddon Hall
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2016 12:56:24 GMT -5
I found this documentary which explained alot to me about the manor house:
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Post by mouse on Sept 13, 2016 3:59:11 GMT -5
interestingly the servants of the aristocracy were the healthiest of all the working classes better fed better dressed and better housed[in spite of living at the top floors of the great country and town houses]and the servants of the aristocracy were in general much better treated than the servants of the middle and upper working classes ..the work load was less and in general the conditions were worse some of the jobs were also much sought after..the butler..the house keeper amd the head cooks..they would each have rooms on the ground floor a sitting room and a bedroom and were quite the lords and ladies of their own domains and used the other staff as their staff also..
the estates which went along with the country and town houses were almost self contained units every thing from a blacksmith to valets and the estates provided the food for the family and workers alike on retirement the onus was on the family they worked for to provide some where for them to live and a pension to live off....much depended on the estate manager/factor in Scotland] who was in charge of the house and estates as to how well or badly every thing was run
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 21:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by mouse on Sept 14, 2016 2:51:54 GMT -5
o I hadn't seen it before you posted it...but it enjoyable some of the really big important houses are known nation wide like Blehiem and Chatsworth etc ...but then there are the smaller houses such as Haddon..Eyam hall[plague village] which I posted last year..beautiful old houses personally I prefer the older houses to the overly big ones...but that's personal taste the lives of those who lived in the houses were certainly interesting...the owners deeply entwined in with our history and those who worked in the houses too.. I think looking back I would have preffered to be a worker rather than one of the females of the families many of the women of those families had dreadful lives
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2016 12:28:12 GMT -5
I think all the females in a manor home had dreadful lives....but I would choose upstairs myself....thankfully we weren't born in the Edwardian or Victorian eras.
It's a very interesting part of history
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Post by annaj26 on Sept 15, 2016 13:02:26 GMT -5
I think all the females in a manor home had dreadful lives....but I would choose upstairs myself....thankfully we weren't born in the Edwardian or Victorian eras. It's a very interesting part of history Face it, all women had hard lives then compared to now.
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Post by ladylinda on Sept 15, 2016 16:14:37 GMT -5
I think all the females in a manor home had dreadful lives....but I would choose upstairs myself....thankfully we weren't born in the Edwardian or Victorian eras. It's a very interesting part of history Face it, all women had hard lives then compared to now. I'm really not sure that's true; especially for the rich and aristocracy, obviously, but actually there have been plenty of times in history when the lives of women have been better than other times and others when it's been worse. I think a blanket generalisation like that is just kow-towing to feminist mythology of patriarchal oppression rather than looking at life clearly.
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Post by annaj26 on Sept 15, 2016 18:10:19 GMT -5
Lin, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I meant that, compared to today, women did not have modern conveniences to use for cooking and cleaning. Only the rich women could afford to hire this done for them. Feminism was not the point at all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2016 21:46:45 GMT -5
Lin, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I meant that, compared to today, women did not have modern conveniences to use for cooking and cleaning. Only the rich women could afford to hire this done for them. Feminism was not the point at all. if you watch enough of these documentaries, it was brain numbing to be a rich lady....the rules of etiquette were strict while the female servants worked their fingers to the bone. I am glad I wasn't alive.
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Sept 16, 2016 4:00:41 GMT -5
Lin, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I meant that, compared to today, women did not have modern conveniences to use for cooking and cleaning. Only the rich women could afford to hire this done for them. Feminism was not the point at all. if you watch enough of these documentaries, it was brain numbing to be a rich lady....the rules of etiquette were strict while the female servants worked their fingers to the bone. I am glad I wasn't alive. Hi Chefmate51, As I believe in reincarnation, how do you know that you weren't around then. We have to resolve all the problems that we have with each other and therefore be free of all Karma before we reach the stage of not having to be reincarnated again and again.
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