I travel back to 19th Century England - I was shocked! Georgian Farm at Beamish Museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I visit the Georgian Era and had the pleasure of visiting the Georgian Farm at Beamish Museum in Country Durham, England. In this video we look around the "new house" - a house that has been here since at least 1400 in one form or another. What really stuck me about this house was how nice it was to see the lives of a farmer, a moderate house and learn about the lives of millions of people at this time rather than the usual stories of riches and gilt you can see in showpiece Georgian houses elsewhere.
I was really shocked how much I liked this house, in fact I loved this house it became one of the highlights of my visit to Beamish Museum. It brought a period to life I have studied a lot but never really "seen" before outside text books and contemporary penny dreadful illustrations.
The Georgian Village of Pockerley contains the farmhouse, quilters cottage (sadly not open at the moment), Drovers Inn and demonstrations from craftspeople making artisan items of the period. It was a really lovely exhibit and easy to lose yourself and imagine it's not a museum at all.
I'm Lucy, social historian and general nosy parker, thank you for joining me for this video, I film, edit, research and script every one and if you liked it please consider subscribing or checking out my other videos, it really inspires me and I would love you to join our community of lovely, like minded history lovers.
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This is where the old saying 'Might as well be hung for a Sheep, as a Lamb', came from. Very hard life for some poor souls, thank you Lucy!
I had never thought about that saying in that context before until this very second - and yes OF COURSE - and they were right!! A sheep would go a lot further :)
@@throughlucyslens Yes, laws were very harsh back then! If you could be deported, just for the theft of a loaf of bread?
It's madness isn't it, and absolutely no empathy for the reasons they were doing it either.
Wonderful Lucy! Really enjoyed your trip back to a Georgian farm. Thank you !
Thanks Janet, I was worried about uploading as it's such a different period but I enjoyed it so so much when I was there I actually went back to film a bit so I could share. Appreciated c
One of your best - no worries.❤@@throughlucyslens
That was really interesting, Lucy, thank you. It's fascinating to see something of how lives were really lived back through time, and to try to understand not just HOW they all lived but also WHY they lived in that way. I sometimes see and hear people judging the people of the past for things they did then, because I suppose it's so easy to look back on these places and times with our own views now, without considering what life was like for them and why they would have done what they did. In this particular house, I can definitely understand how it would be that the owner and lady of the house would have the best room in the warmest part of the house - I'm sure that we all would have done so, if we had been them at that time!
Absolutely! I would have wanted the front room too! This is the reason I love these museums, I am a very visual person and like "doing" things so I only really learn in the environment, I find reading text books hard going, always have done, that's why these places are so important to me and I get so excited!
Thank you for this Lucy, so interesting and evocative. I grew up in a similar farmhouse, built in the 1600s which hadn’t changed much since then. Electricity and running water were installed in 1950 (just before my time). Before that there were oil lamps and candles for light, and a pump outside the kitchen door to provide water. In the kitchen I remember that there was still the “copper”, which was filled with water from the pump, then a fire lit beneath it to provide hot water on wash days (Mondays, whatever the weather). The house was full of “character”: wonky walls, wonky floors, and was very cold in winter. Fires were only made up in the bedroom fireplaces if someone was ill. There was a big Aga in the kitchen, which was used for cooking though a small gas cooker arrived during my childhood which speeded up meals. On the north side of the house was a room called the “dairy” with a huge slate shelf for making pastry. There was no fridge, but this room was always cool and food was kept there, pheasants and rabbits hanging from big hooks in the ceiling beams. In my grandmother’s bedroom there was a small cupboard with a little opening in the wall from an attic over the kitchen; this room was originally designed for powdering wigs (though my grandmother used it as a linen cupboard). This house was sold after my grandmother died in the 1990s, and part of me would like to see it now but mostly I like to remember it as I knew it. Thanks for jogging my memories!
Thanks so much for sharing this, I read it soaking it all in - what an amazing place to have in the memory bank, my advice is not to see how it is today, I did that with the house I lived in as a child and it broke my heart - ruined it 😂 ... I would love a pastry slab! I love baking but pastry is my nemesis with warm hands!
I have heard of this.
The Rural Policeman was assigned to a village and a special house was provided for lodging.
They tended to integrate better within the community & became trusted & popular.
That makes such a lot of sense really too doesn't it -
Bring them into the fold to make them trusted.
There's been a slow return to this type of policing. My husband is a police officer in a semi-rural area and while he doesn't get a house, he integrates deeply into the community he patrols.
Before being assigned that location, petty crimes, home invasions, etc were on the rise. Since he started in that area and took the community integration approach, crime has dropped significantly. We've had dinners with people in his patrol area, supported them during their drug and alcohol abuse recovery, I've even tutored kids in his 'patch'.
Funny how when officers act like human beings instead of scary automatons and get to know people, they get respect and people are more willing to follow the law.
Apologies for hijacking your comment!
That was lovely to read well done 🥰
Most British towns still have 'police houses' where senior police or married lived, unmarried lived in bunks in the police station upstairs. In villages it was a single bobby in a house (with his family). They are slowly being sold off by various police forces these days as police want their own houses rather than tied cottages. They generally are decent sized rooms with decent garden to allow for a veg plot. Rather like council houses (outside cities) - they have larger rooms and gardens than those created by developers for any buyer who could afford of a comparable section of society. Though often they've got structural issues if they are 1950s/1960s houses for the ones prefabbed of concrete. Even so, worth consideration if you are looking to buy in a market town and there's one available.
@@saltyypretzel Neighbourhood policing should be fundamental. With austerity, Safer Neighbourhoods initiative was pretty much dumped, and the crime stats show clearly how the removal of local police trust and networks with society was a backwards move.
Another amazing video Lucy 👍. I had to pause and think for a few minutes about how you could be hanged for stealing a loaf of bread. I wandered off imagining what life was like for these people. Although this was such a threat if you were starving you just would risk it wouldn’t you. Imagine catching a rabbit and bringing that back to your family for a feast to fill those hungry bellies. I always say to my kids ‘we are rich’ they don’t see it like me I don’t think, because by today’s standards we are bad off but look at the luxuries we have today, running water hot/cold, a bathroom inside, plenty of food to buy or have it delivered lol, Cooking facilities, central heating, washing machines, warm bedding, clothing, I could go on, all of these things I have that many would look at and say it’s not posh enough but I am rich and appreciate it all.
Thanks again Lucy 🥰
I remember the first time way back in my history classes we were told people lost their life for stealing food - sometimes children too! And it made me sick to my stomach, more so there was no empathy to see why they were doing it - I think I've been hung up (no pun) on injustice since then and you come across so much of it when studying social history - we are indeed rich!
@@throughlucyslens yes Lucy it bought tears to my eyes and seeing the sense of injustice is absolutely heart wrenching. I hope others look at their life and feel rich too. I hope your feeling better ❤️
@@traceywoodall6937 I am doing okay - someone said day 3 and 10 are the worst with a rib break ,.. day 3 was indeed agony and day 10 is tomorrow .. so let's see how it goes (I am feeling much better though thank you!, even having a little jaunt out on Friday to make a Halloween week video .. )
@@throughlucyslens awww great stuff that’s good to hear. Take it easy, sending you best wishes 🥰
Thank you for the tour through this Georgian farm. You always manage to arouse interest in topics/eras that are not obvious or already well known. That's what differentiates you and makes your posts very unique and enjoiable.
thanks I really appreciate that, I just want to share what I can and I am just so naturally curious about all aspects of history.
What an absolute treat to wake up to on a Monday morning. Really felt I was there with you . What an amazing place full of history and so many things that I never knew. A real eye opener. Thanks again ,Lucy. You are doing a terrific job keeping history alive. 😊
Thank you, I am falling more and more in love with doing this, your kind words are so motivating and I appreciate it!
I just love your videos! Perhaps we need to reconsider mantraps as viable home security options these days 😬😵💫
God could you imagine? Someone kept breaking into my shop at the Police told me under no circumstances stop them or get involved as it could ME charged!!
@@throughlucyslens oh my goodness that's awful! A person can get charged just for protecting their own stuff? Disgusting. But I'm not surprised in the least.
What a brilliant place. I love it when you get fully immersed into a period of time. There is a house local to me that does Tudor days where they have Tudor re-enactments and it’s such a great way to learn about the time period. Something else to add to my ever growing bucket list. Thank you ❤
Sounds great! I love reenactments. I'm hoping to go to one about Christmas puddings this year 😂 honestly my bucket list is so long too! One day we'll get through them won't we?
Yes please to historical food videos, that would be amazing!
I need to find somewhere willing to let me lose on their historical kitchens! haha
Such an interesting video. It really shows what a fantasy Bridgerton is! And Georgette Heyer novels! But that won't stop me enjoying them.
An amazing,beautiful house. And that inn! Wow. Thank you
Another destination to add to my wishlist! Thanks❤
Brilliant! This one was an unexpected triumph!
Brilliant Lucy, that’s the part of Beamish that I remember. They used to have the biggest pig I have ever in my life seen in a sty on the farm ❤
They still have the pigs! They were all out in the field snuffling away and yes one of them was HUGE!! Stupid I am always so shocked how pigs are ..
@@throughlucyslens Yes and enormous teeth that cut through the back of your wellies with such ease (dad had ladies wellies (ie wider calves) specifically to avoid being bitten by mischievous pigs when he looked babysat hers during her holidays!)
I'm always shocked when I hear how vicious pigs can be, watching Babe in the 90s has a lot to answer for 😂
Wow! Amazing. I loved the flag stones at the bottom of the stairs. I never knew that everyone stayed in the same house! Thank you so much. ❤
You know I'm not sure I did until my visit, it made sense though really - keep an eye on the workers and keep as much body heat as possible inside the house!
How wonderful, thank you for sharing, look forward to all your videos 😊
Thanks so much. I get nervous every week it's silly really!
Hi Lucy - the look of excitement on your face as you introduce your videos is brilliant. I'm tipping my Tricorn Hat to you as I write. What a fascinating house. I love the fact that there was real meat hanging up in there. It certainly was a tough life back then. Thanks for taking us to these lovely places with you. Take special care 🙂 X X
I was really excited about this house 😂😂 sometimes I just go in somewhere I am buzzy for ages afterwards, usually in the most unexpected places too, it's happened places I think I'll love have fallen flat and vice Versa!
Kind of reminds me of Charles Dickens 😊 love your videos
Thank you so much, I really do appreciate it - I love Charles Dickens, particularly in the winter, I have a video coming up when I will be talking about his influences a LOT .. watch this space :)
Another very well researched and produced video. You have a terrific channel.
That's so kind of you, thank you! Do really appreciate it.
Another excellent show-and-tell, Lucy!!! I have a collection of those Ruth Goodman and Friends DVDs, farming & business through the ages, which I love - and sadly, about as close to these places as I'm gonna get!!! Also loved your recent 20thC. clips, even though I didn't make a Comment. Can't wait for your forays into Food History - great subject!! Hope the Quilter's Cottage is open on your next visit here .... RjB down under in Oz :)
Thanks lovely, god I love Ruth Goodman - have you read her story? She's a woman that just worked blinking hard to get where she is - really inspirational and I love how she's just herself. Big inspiration for me! Not afraid to get mucky and live the lives these people lived. If only I had the opportunity I would be up for it too! Looking for a venue that will let me spend a few days doing some food videos .. I can't wait either!
Love this Lucy!! Thank you!!!
Very welcome, thanks for coming with me :)
The herb garden and those views 😍
Glad you had such a good time up there lovely X
It was wonderful until I broke my ribs .. Oh how the mighty fall .. literally! hahahah
Wow, I love the farmhouse, fascinating To see how people lived
Yes that's what I love doing too :)
Another brilliant show, thank you ❤
Very welcome, thank you for coming with me Mikala x
I so enjoyed this Lucy! It was as if the inhabitants were just outside and could come back any minute...
Honestly I felt like that - especially when I was upstairs! Expected someone to come up and say "what are you doing here time traveller" 😂
That was amazing, thank you Lucy. I had never really given much thought to what life was like then, but I know a great deal more about it now. We really don't appreciate how well off we are these days compared to those times.
Absolutely, the lack of empathy for other people and their circumstances always astounds me. We are all rich in so many ways today even from a human rights perspective compared to then!
When you presented us with the Drovers Inn at Beamish I kept thinking about The Drovers Arms, the local pub in Darrowby on the current series All Creatures Great and Small. I never thought about it until you mentioned it but the name "Drovers" makes perfect sense since the show is all about veterinary practice and farm animals. Thank you so much for bringing us to places we may never hear about let alone see otherwise. best wishes from your American friend across the pond. 😊🙏💛
Hello! Thank you, yes I imagine James Herriot was familiar with drovers and their work even in the 1960s when he wrote the novels, you still occasionally get blocked in by a bunch of sheep or geese being moved on foot if you are driving about the countryside. I am just pleased and flattered you like coming with me :)
I just love your videos! Thank you for letting me come along❤
So welcome, honestly every week I am blown away that people do - and I love it :)
Wow thanks for the little extra Lucy, this was a pleasant surprise ❤
Very welcome, it was too good not to share it!
What an amazing place. No I wouldn't want to live in those times. Most of my ancestors were farm labourers, not an easy time to be trying to stay alive and bring up a family. Thanks again Lucy, I love the Sunday drives we go on. =-) Take care.
Such a hard life. I mean just thinking about the state of your hands - they must have been covered in chilblains and riddled by arthritis by the time you hit 40. There's a reason they can't get farm labourers from the UK these days .. blinking graft!
That was wonderful. As someone who has spent most of her life since secondary school reading horror books, I fell into Regency novels a couple of years ago. I find them the most incredible escapism, and they really help with my anxiety by taking me out of my life and into someone else's. However, like you say, those books are not about the real people of the era. Interesting to hear you mention the foodie side of things. Prompted by one of the books I read, I looked up a receipe for Ratafia, the brandy and spices concoction that was the drink of Regency ladies. It was surprisingly delicious, even thought I don't like brandy.
I am so glad I saved this til today - anxiety was rife but this has helped settled me!
Such an amazing little find Lucy!!!
Anxiety, I mean she's a b1tch isn't she? Why she always got to ruin weekends too? I am really glad it's helped in some small way. I can't offer you much more help as I am the worst person at controlling my own demons, I tend to just eat them away ... but that's not a useful habit! haha x
Wow Lucy thank you for this. What an eye opener of how “them and us” lived. People were literally treated differently by associated class, workers and master and mistress.
The rear of the property being north facing and colder looking like a barn, the front, south facing and looking like a stunning house.
Years ago I worked about Kendal as a courier 📦
They built a new estate on an old cattle market land. It’s called drovers road (or street/lane). An ode to the cattle drovers.
You feel the temperature drop when you go into that room too, it must have been freezing! Love that there's still roads connected to those drovers - can't even imagine it must have been hearding livestock up and down the country in all weathers.
@@throughlucyslens Proper graft I’d say. The cattle would be all over the show too.
I know, I'm picturing myself chasing cows up and down a muddy embankment 😂
@@throughlucyslens Hehe 😂
Best put your wellies on for grip
Thank you Lucy, love your videos, so very interesting and I'm learning so much
Thank you! That gave me goosebumps :)
Thank you Lucy another fantastic video I've been to pockerly old hall I loved it got pictures of me at the amazing range 😊
The range is gorgeous isn't it! Imagine having to clean that every day!!
I live only 8 miles away from Beamish so have made many visits to this wonderful place. I was sorry to see that you did not glimpse any of the many Beamish Stewards / actors .that fill these buildings,all accurately dressed for the period and playing their historical part.
If you looked over the wall at the end of the garden, down in the valley, there is a running replica of an early locomotive that you can take a ride on. Industrialisation was just round the corner for the people of the farm.
During the summer , my grandson who belongs to the 68th……a group of historically accurate red coated soldiers who fought at the Battle of Waterloo, had a weekend camp in the field beside the farm house . They added drama and colour with their tents ,their drills and their muskets!
Beamish is always worth a visit!
There were so rein-actors there but I never film them as I would have to ask them to sign a release form and it all gets really complicated and breaks my flow - the fella in the cottage was amazing though, very knowledgable and I almost believed he lived in that house! I was so impressed with Beamish, it more than exceeded my expectations x
Excellent. Thank you Lucy. I think I'll watch "Far From The Madding Crowd" after this. 'Tis always grand to see Julie Christie.
(Although when; …Bathsheba blushed while sat at her toilet..., was an unusual choice of wording, I naïvely thought, when I was a child).
Hahaha yes, I used to think they meant SAT ON THE ACTUAL TOILET too when sat there doing their makeup, blinking French ... haha
@@throughlucyslens I am so glad you have read an old copy of the book. Newer editions (Along with Sherlock Holmes and War of The Worlds), have removed references to words like "toilet" and "ejaculating". Language is fluid. Words change meaning, quite "Literally" (Ha Ha). Cheers my dear, sweet lady. You never fail to impress me.
You darent use the word literally inappropriately around my father in law - you know about it!! It's quite interesting really, can a word really be offensive? It's the context, Shakespeare contains some of the most apparently offensive words in the English language but no one dares touch those!
@@throughlucyslens Thank you. You made me laugh out loud at that one.
Even though the Dictionary has been updated to accommodate the misuse of "literally" as a recognised term, I am on your Father-in-Law's side somewhat. We are literally a dying breed, he and I.
Shakespeare didn't ASSASSINATE the English Language. He DEXTROUSLY and FRUGALY gave EXPOSURE to a GENEROUS, MULTITUDIOUS, PERSUSAL of his own manufacture. (Please kill me now).
I gave you a thumb up before watching the video, as I supposed I wouldn't be disappointed, and as usual I wasn't. Beautiful trip, Lucy.
Hey Maria! Thank you, I thought it was a wonderful place and totally wasn't expecting it to be so evocative x
Oh I just love this. Will have to add this to places to visit. 👍💗
You will love it, it's fantastic! A most unexpected surprise and I'm sooo glad I walked up that hill to get there - I was almost going to say no as I was tired!
Thank you Lucy, this is history you can touch. What I would have liked to see were people dressed in 18th century clothing acting out farm life. At senior school our 3rd/4th year history lessons were about 18 and early 19th century England.
That's why I love it! They did have some reinactors in costume including one amazing fella that always wears 19th century clothing even in his every day life, I don't like to film them though as I guess that's not in their job description and I'm too shy to ask 😂 I sneak about like a little ghost with my teeny tiny camera x
Hi Lucy, a fascinating video. How authentic to have actual meat. I thought the herb garden was lovely.😊
I loved the herb garden too, I imagine in the summer it would smell wonderful too with the sun blazing on it.
Really interesting video as usual Lucy nice to see a different side of Georgian life other than the drawing rooms of the rich how it had been set up was well done 😊❤
Thank you, I think that's why I loved it, although I am as partial to a snoop around a colourful Georgian mansion I can't help but connect with places like this more.
Fabulous, thank you. I believe herbs were grown for medicine as well.
Yes! Absolutely.
That’s my favourite bit of Beamish, but you missed the best part. The upstairs in the old house is my favourite xx
It wasn't open unfortunately. Everything that you could access I filmed. What else is upstairs other than the rooms I showed? I need to know now 😂
Brilliant video thank you
Thanks for coming with me, glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Very good as always, love beamish... the tavern must be new not seen that before and been there many times. Pockley manor is always a treat. They used to have lots of farm animals round the back in the stable area too.
I think it was opened this year, there were still animals, pigs and horses - we had Rupert with us though so didn't want to take him near them for their welfare - and he would just think they are giant dogs and want to play! haha
thanks so much for this video ❤
Very welcome, thanks as always for coming with me!
Beamish is amazing ❤
Absolutely mind blowing!
Original and well looked after, the servants had a secret code system in the living quarters -trip the locks! St Fagans might suit you !
Always my favorite part of Beamish and set in the days when farming was real .Nowadays it's mostly computerised like everything else. So pleased to see you there Did you visit the little cottages too. ?
Sadly they weren't open! I was absolutely gutted because I heard there was a really great story attached to the quilter cottage - I will 100% go back though because it's brilliant!
Great video, time for another trip to Beamish I think!
Thank you, honestly that area was so unexpected and BRILLIANT, I felt so relaxed while I was there I didn't want to leave - you will love it!
It's been many a decade since I visited Beamish and I don't remember that part, so I suspect it arrived later. I had never heard of storing grain etc. in the house. That is fascinating. Also, I would love to see any vids of cooking, when you get your head in order. ;)
I'm looking for a place to do it - I would be in my element! I adore food and the history of it. My kitchen at home is way too small and certainly doesn't have the look!
The outside of that house and the herb garden....beautiful. Cheers Lucy. Ps were those bloomers hanging by the fireplace yours?😂😅😊
I think they were shirts 😂😂😂 could well have been from the angle though!
Those hanging hams recalled family stories of the rodent control critters that shared the farmhouse in times now past: cats in the kitchen, rat terriers in the bins, and a great black snake (named Lucifer) who had his own circular access hole in the door to the smokehouse. Neither Esmeralda the cat nor Buster the dog could be trusted with those hams!
Hahah I can imagine my cats going to all kinds of lengths to get to those hams too .. one Christmas one got to the turkey 🙃 .. not sure I'd cope with a snake but Lucifer is a brilliant name for it!
Loved this one. Putting it on my list of potential British Isles stops. Also, it wasn't crowded at all. Was that due to the season or the day of the week? Or is it not well known? I was surprised by the lack of visitors on that beautiful day.
Beamish can get very VERY crowded during the summer and school holidays (unbearably so according to reviews) - if you google school holidays UK they come up. I went on a Friday in September when the children had gone back to school, the weather was also quite cold so because a lot of the museum is outside people tend to stay away when it's a cold / rainy day. The Georgian part was absolutely empty though, just me and a few others, I think it's because it's a bit off the beaten track and was later in the day as they were closing - I nearly missed it myself!
I need to come back to mainland and spend a weekend in Durham , just to visit the Beamish museums. Now to checkout nearest airport and transport to and from and local places to stay. Any suggestions?
Nearest airport would be Tyneside / Newcastle. I stayed in a holiday let in a village called Ebchester about 20 minutes from the museum - it was called Barn 3 x
@@throughlucyslens thank you, that’s a great help x
Georgian Era 1714-1837.
Victorian Era 1837-1901.
Edwardain Era 1901-1910.
I used to have to write this over and over in a book, but I still forget sometimes!
I recall visiting the schoolroom at Beamish, I was told off by the irate teacher for merely being left handed.
It shocks me that was going on well into the 1980s too, pardon you for having magical left handed powers!
More Poldark than Bridgeton. It spans the same period and covers the grain riots.
You'll be shocked but I've never seen Poldark! I need to watch it, it always pops up on my recommendations!
@@throughlucyslens it is fab, I ended up reading the books after watching it. It really does cover all aspects of life back then including the birth of industry and modern banking as well as social and political life.
@@loubylou1899 You have sold it to me ... I know what I am doing today while I am healing my rotten ribs now!
Whilst 1825 was still the Georgian period. It most certainly wasn't the 18th century. It was the 19th century.
Thanks for pointing that out, I have a condition called dyscalculia so I say and read numbers wrong - absolutely not helpful for a historian but I can sort that out now because I never would have noticed myself. Thank you.
@@throughlucyslens oh snap! I've got the same condition, as well as dyslexia. No worries 👍
It's really frustrating isn't it because you know it but it comes out wrong 😂 I drove the maths teachers mad at school - solidarity x
Incredible experience… makes one realise just how lucky we are today but part of me wonders just how precarious our food supply is despite technology. The greedy politicians have us believe that we must allow the world population to grow and our planet becomes more overcrowded … the gap between food / water demand to what technology can give us is getting smaller… when will common sense trump commercial greed and wealth
I worry it never will! They have made self sufficiency almost impossible in our "modern world" even if you want to live off grid on a van someone is chasing you for money to exist!
What can l say 😊 you are a beautifull history teacher 😊❤❤🎉who is intelligent 😊❤ human being who knows alot about history so amazing 👏 100% ne happy and safe always 😊😊😊 from ste 🎉😊
Thanks Ste, there are people that know a lot more than me but I do my best with the brain cells I have left ;) x
😍😍😍 bless a angel 😇 always 😊 from Birmingham a humble kind lady 🎃🎃🎃
Love the pumpkins. Got to think of a film for Halloween 🎃🎃🎃
we are off off off off
Where next? ....
3:02 Interesting when You see an unfortunate 21st century element that has to be included .
I hate it!!!! Fire hydrants and health and safety signs are the Bain of my life! Curse them everytime!
@@throughlucyslens yep you would think that places like this would be granted special dispensation… after all back in the day they didn’t have all these things.
Sometimes they are so blatant it's drives me insane - at least paint them to blend in, I guess the law is the law and it would be heartbreaking if there was a fire but understand I totally feel your pain on this one! Don't start me in bright yellow "wet floor" signs!
It's probably haunted as well
Lots of energy for sure - but it was nice, gentle. The only room I didn't like was that front servants quarters, it was so cold and made me a bit jumpy!
Thank you Lucy, this is history you can touch. What I would have liked to see were people dressed in 18th century clothing acting out farm life. At senior school our 3rd/4th year history lessons were about 18 and early 19th century England.
There usually are people in period dress appropriate to the various areas of the museum who will explain what they are doing.
Mine were too! There are costumed guides who are really friendly and informative but I don't like to film them x