You have to appreciate a family that maintains a sense of tradition and noblesse oblige even when they are no longer very wealthy and have to do most of the work themselves. Imagine a lady in the old days worrying about getting the kids off to school, and then preparing lunch for visitors herself!

@ofwoodbridgeandhedgely1765

9 жыл бұрын

The ladies still were obliged to run the household, which in the larger estates was like running a small business with dozens, if not hundreds of employees.

@the-chillian

9 жыл бұрын

Of Woodbridge and Hedgely That's true, but all those employees were there for the benefit of her and her family, and her main role on occasions like this would have been to organize it. Here, she must both organize it AND actually do the main part of the work, which means she can't even see as much of the Horn Dance as she'd like.

@LUREDADDY52

7 жыл бұрын

+ ChrisC Imagine a lady in the old days with a nanny for the kids & servants preparing lunch. Oh what it was like to be a lady.

A wonderful documentary on how a family has maintained their home and traditions for hundreds of years.

Beautiful manor house, fascinating history... and Truffle! Priceless value is added by the family. Having descendants living on these estates, makes them so much more than museums. Thank you from a new Blithfield hall fan in the USA.

A pleasure. A Country House Revealed is actually only a section of a longer documentary that we're hoping to complete sometime this year. Will let you know when there's more. Thanks for watching.

Glad you like it, and apologies for the (very) late reply. The Bagot family history is fascinating, and a whole documentary series could easily be spent on just them as their history goes back so far. This film is part of a wider documentary about English dance traditions that we're hoping to complete sometime in 2013 (all down to the usual time and money), but there are more interviews and footage to see. Will let you know when there's more. Thanks for watching.

I'm also a Bagot descendant, Walter Bagot of Blithfield is my 12 x great-grandfather. If you'd like to find out more about Blithfield and the Bagots, check out the wonderful book Memorials of the Bagot Family by William Bagot, written in 1823. It's available to read as an e-book via Google Books. And thank you Novus Visus for posting this wonderful video :-)

As a descendant of the Bagot family, this was wonderful to watch. I hope to visit sometime in the near future.

Such a beautiful house! I love the library.

I love that wallpaper in The Chinese Room, love this video, thank you

I wish I could live in such a magnificent CASTLE!

@TheGranti7a

7 жыл бұрын

Olly Notmyrealname Trivia really, Blithfield Hall is not a castle. It's a manor or country house dating from the Feudal period. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_house

I love old castles like this one.

Just beautiful and what memories that house must hold. I would not want people trecking through my home but couldn't they charge people who wanted to come inside and look? I am happy England holds onto their manors and castles.

very beautiful

Wow I love it.......

beautiful home!

Wow I love the Castle I would like to live in it.

What a great castle!

I have traced my ancestry back to Hervey Bagot. He was my direct Grandfather 26 Generations removed.

WOW-WOW SO BEAUTIFUL...!!! KPACOTA...!!!

I could just imagine how c old it must be in winter ffffffffffffffreezing

id love to practice my guitar in the main hall. i bet the acoustic in there sound great.

What a Beautiful Castle.

My apologies Elizabeth Mike but Bithfield Hall is not a castle as there are no true fortifications, it is a manor house if you will. Cheers.

Why is Lady Bagot wearing a witches hat in the portrait at 8:50? Clearly not a hennin, what's the story?

What Big Castle I would like to live in it.

M R James wrote a story about the horn dance.

Quite.

Did she say, husband @ 7:54 ?