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

Sunday Afternoon in Holt, Norfolk

It is Sunday afternoon and we have had lunch and are walking around the town of Holt.
Always have a chill out day when on holiday before fitting in as much as we can during the following week.
Again, like this morning in Aylsham, almost everywhere, is closed so just right for a stroll.

Tomorrow we will be visiting Blickling Estate which is less than three miles from our cottage