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| The house, with its large orangery to the left (conceals servants' block) |
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| One of two bookcases designed by Blathwayt friend, diarist Samuel Pepys; the other is in the V&A |
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| Marrow spoons; we've just got to get some for our camping kit |
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| Murillos' boy teasing a woman eating porridge |
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| Staircase, as seen in... |
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| An episode of Dr. Who filmed at Dyrham |
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| Flower vase, reflecting the Dutch thing... there were several more |
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| Inside the door is A View Down a Corridor, by Samuel van Hoogstrattaen |
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| Royal bed--just in case the monarch dropped by--never did, never slept in |
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| Figurine collection |
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| During WWII, Dyrham was home to babies and toddlers moved away from the areas being bombed by the Germans; a photo from the garden |
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| "You rang, sir?" episode #7 |
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| Hundreds of antique Delft tiles, once, presumably, from Blathwayt's office, now adorning the dairy |
1 comment:
I was looking up more info on Wikipedia on orangeries and found this: "The orangery at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, which had been provided with a slate roof as originally built about 1702, was given a glazed one about a hundred years later, after Humphrey Repton remarked that it was dark; though it was built to shelter oranges, it has always simply been called the "greenhouse" in modern times."
Interesting that this orangery was so important!
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