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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