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No Voice from the Hall John Harris

No Voice from the Hall By John Harris

No Voice from the Hall by John Harris


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Recounts an odyssey through country houses in the years after World War II. Between 1946 and 1961 the author visited over 200 houses, becoming aware of the riches they contained, which were under threat from demolition men and dealers. This book describes country houses in their death throes.

No Voice from the Hall Summary

No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper by John Harris

This volume recounts an odyssey through country houses in the years after World War II. Between 1946 and 1961 the author visited over 200 houses, becoming aware of the riches they contained, which were under threat from demolition men and dealers. He describes Nikolaus Pevsner being mistaken for the gas-meter-reader; reveals a secret hoard of porcelain at Slindon; and the curious discovery of an Alsatian in the bath at Draycot Cerne. In a dining room the family protraits still hang on the walls, and the Meissen stands in a cabinet, yet the centre of the room is piled high with turnips. Using archive photographs, the book describes country houses in their death throes, as mahogany staircases burn in the park and rococo ceilings shatter beneath the hammer.

Table of Contents

Home of the master spy - Langley Park, Buckinghamshire; the vintages were all '45 - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire; the key is under the dustbin, sir - Kenwood House, Hampstead; a matter of juvenile delinquency - Delaford, Bridgefoot House, Huntsmoor Park, Richlings Park and Iver Grove, Buckinghamshire; Pan with a camera - Painshill Park, Surrey; a secret hoard of porcelain - Michelgrove Park and Slindon House, Sussex; a Polish patriot's place - Dogmersfield Park, Hampshire; an impending need for a change of address - Badger Hall, Shropshire; the gift of a Burke's Peerage - Breakspear's House, Middlesex; a room that may never have been - Shurland Castle, Kent; a mentor for all aspirants - a day at Hungershall Lodge, Kent; nearly a Catholic mass - Onslow Hall, Shropshire; for Aquascutum overcoat read army issue - Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire; the alsatian in the bath - Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire; police! stay where you are! - Wulf Hall, Wiltshire; Snorting, needling and murky liaisons - Belvedere, Kent; getting the better of the Rothschild agent - Winchenden Pavilion. Buckinghamshire; a day in Hampshire but not Hinton Ampner - Warnford, the Grange, Stratton, Kempshott; a welcome bout of 'flu - Fairford Park, Gloucestershire; the King's champion of England - Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire; clock trouble, or Old Testicle - Oving House, Buckinghamshire; a question of Spitfire glass - Erdigg, North Wales; damn the Pennington-Ramsdens! - Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire; into the arms of the tart next door - Bure Homage and Highcliffe Castle, Hampshire; cells for Nazis and Pugin papers - Willingham House and Bayons Manor, Lincolnshire; laments and curses - Watnall Hall and Bulwell Hall, Nottinghamshire; of sheep and potatoes - Burwell Park, Lincolnshire; but where are the golfers? - Dyrham Park, Hertfordshire and Wrotham Park, Middlesex; an arcadia in the rural wolds - Stourton Park and Panton Hall, Lincolnshire; of condoms and a grand piano - Uffington House, Lincolnshire; Mars bars were only made from 1932 - Willoughby Hall, Lincolnshire; ostlers, and Bertie wild men - Revesby Abbey, Rauceby and Eresby, Lincolnshire; of pet lions, Coade peacocks and Vyner ghosts - Haverholme Priory, Bloxham Park, Blankney House, Nocton Hall, Tupholme Hall and Gautby Great Park, Lincolnshire; they've come to read the meter, mum - Narford Hall, Norfolk; Le Brun and the Escalier des Ambassadeurs, Versailles - Staunton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

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GOR001335444
9780719555671
0719555671
No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper by John Harris
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Murray Press
19980416
253
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