This year we joined English Heritage and it was fab. Meant that we could visit all sorts of places. Some like Haddon Hall was a childhood memory but places like Bolsover Castle 20 minutes from my home I had never been to. This place was built by Charles Cavendish in 1612... the Cavendishes are the hoo de haa of the area. It was built for swagger and fun... merely a place for the visitors to stay! Small compared to the huge mansion that they actually lived in. The art work was superb. 
Brodsworth Hall was another amazing place ..........incredible gardens.... fab art work but do you know the things I loved the best were.......a room full of sledges, trunks, gardening gear etc, because the thing that made this place different is that although there are over 30 rooms it was truly a family home until the 80's. Before then Sylvia lived there alone for most of the time. Her daughter, Patricia who married the local bobby made the decision to hand over to the English Heritage. A wise choice I would say as there was limited daily help and Syvia's dogs roamed loose for many years.
Glorious place though.
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