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| The Sea Dog Table, 1560 |
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| Comfy bed chamber; tapestries... |
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| Ditto |
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| Upstairs dining, from another period |
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| Music room, sort of |
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| Great plaster relief all over the house |
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| A bit of the view; they say Bess liked to take her guests up in the towers after dinner and show them the rest of her land, which was all the eye could see, 360 degrees, much of Derbyshire and a good bit of Nottinghamshire |
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| Right across the road, Old Hardwick, which Bess built on the site of her dad's earlier house; it had been finished only four years when she embarked on New Hardwick; Old Hardwick functioned as servants' quarters, etc., for a time, and then emergency back-up great house; then was torn down; much remains however, and you can walk up four flights in one wing |
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| Some of the remaining interior at Old Hardwick |
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| Ditto |
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| Wider view of Old Hardwick |
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| View of New Hardwick from Old |
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| Parting/dorsal view of Hardwick; incredible place... |
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