The view from our hotel window
Lifehouse and Thorpe Hall Gardens, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex - 11th June 2017
Nosher and Isobel finally get round to the Valentine's Day gift of an overnight stay at Lifehouse Spa, just outside Thorpe Le Soken in deepest Essex. The hotel, built on the site of the former Thorpe Hall - which once counted Queen Mary and Winston Churchill as visitors - has, as well as various pamper and treatment rooms, kept much of the original grounds of the old hall, which have been restored to most of their former glory.
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Another of Lifehouse's accommodation blocks
Isobel flakes out on the bed for a bit
A reflected window in a mirror
Isobel roams the corridors
The Lifehouse sign
The front of Lifehouse Spa Hotel
We walk around the fields
A lake in the grounds
Isobel in the hedgerows
A lily pond
Some cool spindly plant
Isobel finds some fluffy plants
Isobel stands in amongst some giant plants
In Thorpe Hall gardens
Isobel in the formal gardens
More of the gardens, also visited by J. M. Barrie
Nice orange flowers
We find the original entrance to Thorpe Hall
Purple flowers
A nice big pond with lillies on it
Isobel considers the pond
We look at a rare Strawberry Tree
Some of the older buildings on the site
In a library room
Isobel stands around
Glass corridors
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The view from our hotel window
The view from our hotel window
Another of Lifehouse's accommodation blocks
Isobel flakes out on the bed for a bit
A reflected window in a mirror
Isobel roams the corridors
The Lifehouse sign
The front of Lifehouse Spa Hotel
We walk around the fields
A lake in the grounds
Isobel in the hedgerows
A lily pond
Some cool spindly plant
Isobel finds some fluffy plants
Isobel stands in amongst some giant plants
In Thorpe Hall gardens
Isobel in the formal gardens
More of the gardens, also visited by J. M. Barrie
Nice orange flowers
We find the original entrance to Thorpe Hall
Purple flowers
A nice big pond with lillies on it
Isobel considers the pond
We look at a rare Strawberry Tree
Some of the older buildings on the site
In a library room
Isobel stands around
Glass corridors