What Was It Really Like To Grow Up In A Victorian Manor House? | Historic Britain | Absolute History
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Published 2022-12-02
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All Comments (21)
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I like how it isn’t dark inside.
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Nice information presented, but the title is totally misleading. They didn't address what it would be like to grow up in such a home at ANY point. Either it's a lazy, clickbait title or someone messed up.
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That house deserves to be the main scenario of a good British drama production, like Highclare, Chatsworth, Lyme Hall, Wollaton Hall… Its so beautiful!
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Omg the woman who discusses the garden has such a good voice for telling stories 😱
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29:08 Eddie Marsan could play the grocer!! LOVE that man!!
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As a Lebanese, to see these cedars makes me so happy❤🇱🇧🌲 since they're in decline in Lebanon. I only see very few when i visit
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At 4:05. I went to an inflation calculator. 80,000 pounds in 1850 is about 8,540,000 pounds in 2022. And 100,000 pounds in 1850 is about 10,675,000 pounds in 2022. Every year. So after 10 years this William Gibbs fellow could've amassed a fortune of around 85,400,000 to 106,750,000 in 2022 pounds. That explains this huge mansion. Imagine pouring a good 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 pounds into building this enormous, rambling structure. It makes sense now.
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I like Alan. His style reminds me of Tony Robinson, who I dearly miss. I find it ironic that everything is kept and cared for within these houses so that they remain a time capsule of their era. I watch a good many urban exploration content and so many of the English abandoned houses I see have a good deal of the same items, but all is covered in dust, mold and decay. The only difference between them are money and someone to care.
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This series is just so delightful! I've been really looking forward to Fridays for a whole new reason.
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You know, thanks to "birds poop" that my country exported to you. (I mean Perú) we could buy our first train and train station. And the president splurged all the money. That was until we run out of it and you became less interested in that. Hehe. It's interesting how the story runs in the two sides. I always studied this subject looking it from the Peruvians perspective. I didn't get to know how you spent that money or what it was used for. Thank you for sharing!!
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At least this palace was built by someone who actually did something to accumulate such a lot of wealth, through his own labor and mercantile intelligence. And it doesn't matter that that thing was fertilizer, as I don't recall any aristocrat or Royal whose fortune was gained in any cleaner manner whatsoever.
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We visited Tyntesfield about 10 years ago and we remember it well. It was absolutely amazing
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I enjoyed this documentary but was a bit out off as the content wasn't really what's in the title.
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This guy or Tony Robinson I could literally watch anything with them in it
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It is not a home. It is a CASTLE!
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Victorian homes had character and personality, unlike the ticky-tacky boxes of today.
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a magnificent house! If it were mine, my will would forbid modernization. only those things worn out or broken could be replaced, & those would have to be in keeping with the gothic period!
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I love these kind of documentaries. I can't help but always think how, 100 years from now, people will look at our modern day houses and Ikea furniture and marvel at how interesting and old-fashioned it all is. 😅
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Even with all his wealth it's a wonder he didn't go bankrupt by building the mansion and wound up in debtor's prison!!!
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Oh my goodness! What a house! Although, as you say, "It's not exactly cosy." As a Neo Edwardian, it was the smaller town house that set my heart on fire. I can totally see myself living there. Minus that Lino floor. Historic, or not, that would have to go.
