Thursday 28 February 2013
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Sunday 24 February 2013
Madeira - HPB
Friday 22 February 2013
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Monday 18 February 2013
Ascott House
Ascott House, sometimes referred to as simply Ascott, is situated in the hamlet of Ascott near Wing in Buckinghamshire. It is set in a 3,200-acre estate.
Ascott House was originally a farm house, built in the reign of James I and known as "Ascott Hall". In 1873 it was acquired by Baron Mayer de Rothschild (of the neighbouring Mentmore Towers estate). The Rothschild family had begun to acquire vast tracts of land in Buckinghamshire earlier in the century, on which they built a series of large mansions from 1852 onwards. Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild, who transformed it over the following decades into the substantial, but informal, country house it is today.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Saturday 16 February 2013
POST NUMBER 700
Thursday 14 February 2013
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Birmingham - Back to Backs
Sunday 10 February 2013
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