In the ‘Battle of the Gatehouses’ which I referred to in my last blog – with billions of UK heritage tourism spend at stake – The Landmark Trust have been leading the heritage mini-break musket charge from the front for years now. As HRH Prince of Wales admits in his foreword to the most recent […]
This morning I received an email from The Landmark Trust – who do up architectural follies, gatehouses, moated keeps and other heritage oddities for holiday lets – inviting me to ‘Experience the life of a Tudor Squire. But without the lice’. Our Upton Cressett’s 16th century gatehouse – built by Richard Cressett in 1580 – […]
I once googled the name William Cash to learn that there is a black knife murderer on death row in Alabama or some such state with the same name. Well now there’s another criminal in the Cash clan. And this one is white, aged 45 and was seen shortly before the crime carrying a Leon […]
It was a hot and beautiful Tuesday yesterday; a good chance – or so I thought – for the team here to get out their smart navy Upton Cressett sea-dragon motif tee-shirts I have had printed for Pedro, my part-time gardener, and my housekeeper, to wear for official Upton Cressett house opening duties. The exception […]
I sometimes get moans from friends – usually rich friends that have a nice house in Chelsea or Notting Hill as well as an expensive cottage, or unpretentious farmhouse-style country house – that the reason they don’t move to somewhere grander in the shires is that anything decent, like a Grade 1 Georgian mansion with […]