This Victorian umbrella stand is believed to have once stood in the Entrance Hall greeting guests into the mansion.*
*from an information board next to the artwork…
Archive for the tag 'Croome Court'
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Malvern 2018
Bizarre Beauty
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 20th 2018
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Croome – The Chinese Bridge
Comments Off CherryPie on Sep 19th 2018
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Croome – St Mary Magdalene Church
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2018
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Croome – House and Landscape
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2018
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Ultimately we have just one moral duty:
to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum
16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 9th 2018
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Out & About
Teaser Photos…
… from my previous post
I revealed the first of those photographs as Pitchford Hall.
My next blog post will reveal the second location from that post. The photo above is a second teaser to the second location…
I have just returned from a weekend mini break, meeting up with photographer friends, old and new
I have [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 4th 2018
Filed under Colwall 2017, Heritage, Holidays
Commodes
A signboard next to these carefully crafted and decorated wooden objects informs that they are a pair of commodes:
The name is taken from the French word for a chest of drawers. They were introduced during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and the style was adopted in the mid-1700s when French fashions became popular [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2017
