Many stately homes conjure up visions of separate ‘upstairs’ and ‘downstairs’ realms, but at Erddig the 18th-century Yorke family took a different approach. Alan learns how they encouraged a romance between nanny and groomsman, immortalized staff in photos and verse, and treated them with a respect unheard of among other grand houses. Angellica Bell tries her hand at producing cider from Erddig’s historic orchards, while Miriam O’Reilly visits Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, where the family’s relationship with their servants was very different from that of the Yorkes’.
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Deez
Misleading. That house was never in Downton Abbey.
Nigel Havers. My youthful crush.
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How amazing, I loved the photos! I got a chill thinking about how if this family hadn't been different, we wouldn't have the understanding of what life was really like. Here's to being different!🥂
And isn't it funny to see the difference between how the houses look?
Edit again: well, this should teach me to comment before the end of a video
It might have been nice for the gardener to duck into the shady tunnel on a hot day.
Great vid
Amazing programme, I enjoyed every minute
I am still stuck in the Cup & Saucer..HOW did they build that
My genealogist documented a case between a lonely titled daughter who fell in love with and married their gardern, an ancestor of mine. Yes, great scandal! But they were now married and a baby on the way so itd was a "done deal". They were set up with a nursery on the outskirts (then – now central) London!
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Well if you were a chamber maid… ðŸ¤
I would have rather earned a little less and been treated better!
Unfortunately, having never visited the UK, I must know….is the grass really as green as it appears in the aerial shots of this series?