Blickling Hall and Gardens, Norfolk Part 2

Before continuing with the second part of this post I will say that I am still having issues with the photograph storage in Windows 10.  So, I have been sitting at my computer with my blog on screen and also my blog on my i-pad screen trying to not duplicate photos. The are still not in order and very mixed up and there does not seem anything I can do about that. I think it is probably a conflict between Windows, i-cloud and my photo album software.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the estate was the birthplace of Anne Boleyn, and during World War Two RAF air crew were billeted here, while its owner, Lord Lothian, influenced Churchill’s actions.

So back to Blickling and the kitchen areas

and more of the back stairs

Always when negotiating back stairs in these large country houses I always wonder how on earth the servants managed to them throughout the day.

I guess if they were not fit when they arrived they soon would be! 

The Long Gallery

Seeing details of the ceiling through a mirror

A Curator cataloguing 12,500 books. Has been working on it for 5 years and says it will take 12 years all told.

yours truly taking the weight of her feet as they say! 

The music room

Amazing tapestries that tell a story 

There was a special exhibition on at the house and all the card and wrapping seen here was tied in with travel. I did not take much notice of what it was all about as there was enough to do and see.

The gardens are pretty self-explanatory and there was quite a but of colour considering it was October

Looking down the long walk at the back of the house

All that you see across this picture is one very ancient tree

The garden deck chairs had prints of past owners on the canvas

Hope you enjoy

Blickling Hall and Gardens, Norfolk Part 1

I'm having a difficult time sorting photos. I think it is an issue with Windows 10. When looking in my Windows Photos Gallery everything is fine but for some reason blogger will not pull my pictures out of there and only Windows Explorer will come up. Explorer brings my photos up in an absolute jumble as it is using some strange filing system. The only way I can get them onto my blog is to make a Binary list and that also means remembering the order in which I took them. Now just a few is fine but I am dealing with over 400 from my holiday.
I have had so many IT problems in recent times that I find this very frustrating and exhausting.
If anyone knows the answer I would love to know.

Blickling Hall was less than 3 miles from our cottage so we made it our first full day out. I'm posting in 2 parts so as not to upload too many pictures at a time.

The Hall has been occupied and owned since c1045 when it was owned by Harold Godwinson (later King Harold 2nd) until 1930 when Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, left Blickling to The National Trust.

These ancient Yew hedges that line both sides of the entrance walk (see the first picture) 

are interesting from the inside as well as out. This photo shows what it is like inside the hedge on just one side.

I will show the gardens in my next post but here we see the moated gardens around the main house.

That husband of mine who is 84 today is very patient when hanging around while I take photos

Looking back towards the entrance

As already mentioned many of my photos will appear out of order

Facing the main staircase with it's amazing wood carvings

Dining Room

part of the pantry from which drinks were served

A painted doorway showing how this corridor looked in times gone by

Part of the kitchen

The back stairs 

Obviously a later addition

a dressing room

Well I guess this is better that keeping the pot under the bed as we did when I was a child, before we moved into a house that had a bathroom.

This brought back memories for me of having to walk to the bottom of the yard in icy cold winters to a small brick building that was as cold inside as outside. No lights, just an oil lamp outside and gas mantles inside.

Sounds a luxury if I compare it with my Grandmother's cousin who were farmers where they had no running water and only oil lamps for light and we would have to walk across the farmyard to the 'loo' which consisted of a wooden bench with several different sized round holes to fit different members of the family with just a trough underneath. The farm tap was a small field away. 

Well I digress!! 

A sitting room and do note he amazing ceilings in all these rooms

The upper part of the main staircase
Note the wall statue on the left of Anne Boleyn. At one time her Father was the owner of this house in 1505 

Lots of tapestries but this one was amazing for it's size.

You can see how jumbled up these photos are

Part 2 coming soon - hope you enjoyed