After Petworth we drove on to Uppark, a 17th century house in West Sussex, now another National Trust property. Uppark is perhaps best known these days for having been gutted by a fire in 1989, then rebuilt, a process in which many lost crafts were re-learned. Most of the contents of the house were saved from the fire, as members of the family, the National Trust, and volunteers, carried them outside while the fires burned from the roof down. It is an exciting story of rescue and rebuilding. Alas, "no fotos!" prevails here, inside, unlike most of the properties we have so far visited. But I did grab just a few.
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Entrance to main building; there are stables, dairy, kitchens,
etc., in separate buildings, connected by tunnels |
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| A model of the house |
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A lady's dollhouse (not for kids); of course, it is a great house;
perhaps the largest we have seen yet |
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| "You rang, sir?" |
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| Laundry |
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| Game larder |
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View across the downs (or possibly the ups), including the
colorful field of rapeseed in the distance; rather less of this
in England than in France |
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We first noticed rapeseed in Turkey and asked our tour guide what it was. He did not know, so had the bus driver stop near a field where someone was working, got off the bus, went and asked the farmer, then came back and told us. We have seen lots of it in France since then.
Interesting house.
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