The Upton Cressett Blog
Our quest to become the Kardashians of Shropshire
Envious of the ‘super-influencers’ making a fortune posting pictures of their glamorous lives, William Cash and his wife Lady Laura aimed to up their Insta-game – uncut version of article appearing in Sunday Telegraph, 29th October 2023. A new unclassified […]
High Sheriff visit for Hall reopening and launch of new audio tour
We were delighted to re-open our historic Hall and Gardens to the Shropshire public on June 26th for the first time since September 2019. The highlight of the opening was the visit of the High Sheriff of Shropshire, Tony Morris-Eyton, to […]
After 600 years of spiral staircases and no bannisters, Upton Cressett is welcoming Disabled History Month this November
Photo credit: Historic England Archive One of the few downsides to opening up Upton Cressett to the public – which we have tried to make a ‘community hub’ since the 1970s – is that medieval and Tudor builders had little […]
Upton Cressett Hall recognised by the Culture Recovery Fund as a secret jewel of Shropshire heritage
Upton Cressett Hall, which had to close all summer due to Covid restrictions, is one of 445 heritage organisations that is to receive support from the Culture Recovery Fund to help the Grade 1 property (with two Scheduled Ancient Monuments) […]
Summer 2020
It’s been a surreal and slumbering summer here, almost like a medieval reverie poem. I hadn’t realised until I began re-reading The Canterbury Tales that Chaucer’s 14th century medieval ‘road trip’ poem – twenty nine pilgrims heading off from […]
Sleeping with History
Owners of properties that offer the chance to sleep with a slice of history – a Scottish castle, a stately home hotel or our Elizabethan Gatehouse – have never been exactly shy about showing off their guest books as a […]
Triple festivities at Upton Cressett
There were triple festivities at Upton Cressett over the weekend with the christening of our four month old daughter Cosima and the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents with a special dinner on Saturday night with our old neighbours the […]
It's a Battlefield
This week Spear’s is submitting its ‘Heritage and the NPPF’ briefing report for Greg Clark’s team of advisors at the Department of Communities and Local Government in Victoria. The results – based on research during our Save Britain’s Historic Landscape […]
'Summer before the Storm': John Piper and John Betjeman at Upton Cressett, 1939
I was delighted to learn from the BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that previously unknown photographs from the John Piper archive have just been put on line after a major Heritage Lottery Fund grant to Tate Britain gallery in London had made […]