Tales from the Old Country Estates by John Bailey
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Tales from the Old Country Estates
Summary
This volume records the memories of a range of people from old country estates throughout Britain: cooks and butlers, comptrollers and aged retainers, housemaids, gardeners, nursery maids and estate workers. Their reminiscences take the reader into the heart of time-forgotten places.
Tales from the Old Country Estates Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction - the country house in our time; Gunton Park, North Norfolk; Beaulieu, Hampshire; Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Knebworth House, Hertfordshire; Harewood House, Yorkshire; Syon House, Greater London; Caer Beris Manor, Wales; Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Pitcastle, Aberfeldy; Hutton in the Forest, Cumbria; Trebah, Cornwall; Dalchroy, Scotland; epilogue- a changing structure.
Additional information
GOR001231616
9780715307243
071530724X
Tales from the Old Country Estates by John Bailey
Used - Very Good
Hardback
David & Charles
19991126
192
N/A
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