Bulletin 86 – August 2013

‘Ash’ is leaving us at the end of the week, taking some holiday time before going back to university.  He had sent us his CV a month ago, a conservation student at Aberystwith looking for work experience.  More often than not we cannot match the...

Bulletin 85 – July 2013

The van driver from Hull – yes, HULL – was reversing on her wing mirrors when she hit the statue, toppling it off the plinth.  Smashed beyond repair, it had stood for twenty years in our Ferrers Centre courtyard.  It was entitled ‘GUST’ and, as...

Bulletin 84 – June 2013

May has seen some new developments.  Since Rolo died last year we have been looking for a new dog, and the search has proved surprisingly difficult.  Eventually we learnt of a litter of ten black Labrador pups on a farm near Melbourne, and collected an eight week old...

Bulletin 83 – May 2013

O to be in England now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm tree-bole are in tiny leaf……………. HOME THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD Robert...

Bulletin 82 – April 2013

A magazine article about the first motor cars on historic properties has set me thinking about the course of events here at Staunton Harold.  When the tenth Earl Ferrers died in 1911  the title and estate passed to a cousin, an architect practising in Kent.  It was...

Bulletin 81 – March 2013

Next month marks the tenth anniversary of our buying Staunton Harold Hall.  We bid for it by ‘telephone auction’ over a period of many weeks.  Our understanding was that our main rival was a man from Yorkshire who had been much in evidence, and had...