Harry and Isobel on a muddy path
Life Below Stairs, Ickworth House, Horringer, Suffolk - 28th January 2018
We head over to Ickworth for another wander around. This time, the extensive basement "visiting servants quarters" are all open for exploration.
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National Trust members like stickers
The boys find a climbey tree
Harry and his hat
Fred and an up-turned tree stump
Winter trees
Mossy logs
On a small bridge in the woods
There are some rather impressive tree carvings
Isobel and Fred
A carving that looks like J. S. Bach
The Ickworth rotunda
We head off below stairs
On the steps to the basement
A model of the electricity system, circa 1909
Passages below stairs
An Edwardian toilet
Ickworth's modern, but no less epic, heating system
Fred tests a sink out
An underground water tank
Fred tries some early 20th century wood tools
Harry's got a ruler
Fred and a water pump
In the kitchen
Fred points the way
The boys investigate 1920s kitchen moulds
A kitchen window
Fred plays with scales
The Ickworth House kitchen
Isobel's on an old phone, as Harry looks up
Fred with an old Remington typewriter
Fred's on the phone
Isobel does a spot of knitting
The head servant's quarters
The boys have fun with some old sugar tongs
Harry winds something up
The visiting servants' dining/recreation room
Harry plays with a board game
Isobel roams around
The boys play an early Bagatelle
Fred wins (again)
Cards and dominoes
Fred plays the piano
One of many cellars beneath Ickworth House
In the many corridors of Ickworth
A 1920s bike leans on a wall
The boys are back at the tool table
In the orangery café
Outside on the patio
Isobel sits outside the orangery
A bite to eat outside the orangery
You wouldn't really know it was January
Harry looks around
Isobel and Fred
Harry legs it
The boys do pretend bull-fighting
Harry and Fred in a tree
The south wing is now a hotel
The cliché Rotunda photo
Sheep on the meadow
A tree stump in the stumpery
We walk around the grounds
Down by the pond again, except less frozen
More stickers
Fred swings
Harry checks a tree-stump out
Fred hides in a tree stump
Fred explores a fallen tree
Harry and Fred on a massive fallen-down tree stump
Fred and Harry
Back to the car park
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Harry and Isobel on a muddy path
Harry and Isobel on a muddy path
National Trust members like stickers
The boys find a climbey tree
Harry and his hat
Fred and an up-turned tree stump
Winter trees
Mossy logs
On a small bridge in the woods
There are some rather impressive tree carvings
Isobel and Fred
A carving that looks like J. S. Bach
The Ickworth rotunda
We head off below stairs
On the steps to the basement
A model of the electricity system, circa 1909
Passages below stairs
An Edwardian toilet
Ickworth's modern, but no less epic, heating system
Fred tests a sink out
An underground water tank
Fred tries some early 20th century wood tools
Harry's got a ruler
Fred and a water pump
In the kitchen
Fred points the way
The boys investigate 1920s kitchen moulds
A kitchen window
Fred plays with scales
The Ickworth House kitchen
Isobel's on an old phone, as Harry looks up
Fred with an old Remington typewriter
Fred's on the phone
Isobel does a spot of knitting
The head servant's quarters
The boys have fun with some old sugar tongs
Harry winds something up
The visiting servants' dining/recreation room
Harry plays with a board game
Isobel roams around
The boys play an early Bagatelle
Fred wins (again)
Cards and dominoes
Fred plays the piano
One of many cellars beneath Ickworth House
In the many corridors of Ickworth
A 1920s bike leans on a wall
The boys are back at the tool table
In the orangery café
Outside on the patio
Isobel sits outside the orangery
A bite to eat outside the orangery
You wouldn't really know it was January
Harry looks around
Isobel and Fred
Harry legs it
The boys do pretend bull-fighting
Harry and Fred in a tree
The south wing is now a hotel
The cliché Rotunda photo
Sheep on the meadow
A tree stump in the stumpery
We walk around the grounds
Down by the pond again, except less frozen
More stickers
Fred swings
Harry checks a tree-stump out
Fred hides in a tree stump
Fred explores a fallen tree
Harry and Fred on a massive fallen-down tree stump
Fred and Harry
Back to the car park