All this beautiful Spring sunshine has encouraged us to reflect on what has been a busy and productive winter this year at the Manor. Normally we start the winter clean in an upstairs room and work down or in a downstairs room and work up in a rather methodical manner that has been planned by the…
Early this year I went on the Housekeeping Study Days, which this time were housed in the Edwardian party house Polesden Lacey, in Surrey. The HKSD are the National Trust Preventive Conservation training. It’s four days of talks and demonstrations of every area of housekeeping you could think of, and a few you probably wouldn’t!…
On a bleak January Monday Vicki, Sue and Harriet, well wrapped up against the cold, ventured down to Blaise Castle House Museum in Bristol to learn about working with costume collections. Blaise Castle, a folly dating from the eighteenth century, could just be made out above the line of bare winter trees but we resisted…
In the last of our blogs looking back at 2014 members of the team have picked their personal highlights. We have also chosen a selection of projects and events that we are particularly looking forward to in 2015. “2014 has been a great year at Snowshill and I have had many highlights. At the top…
2014 saw us once again dedicated to the Conservation work that is so crucial to maintaining the Manor, garden and collection. The team worked hard to monitor the environmental conditions within the Manor and Cottage and limit the agents of deterioration and will continue to do so in 2015, it is a never-ending task! Snowshill…
Another post from a guest blogger; this time it is our wonderful clock conservator Mike Flannery. I am looking forward to another trip to Snowshill to spend some time with the clocks. As a clock conservator I have a unique opportunity to examine clocks at various NT properties. Snowshill has a unique collection of clocks ranging…
While inventory checking the Small Store during the summer the team discovered two large photographs at the bottom of a box. The images depict a beautiful and grand manor house, with impressive features including four pyramidal turrets, fantastic decorative gables and a coat of arms carved above a grand stone entrance. What struck the inventory team was…
Last week some of the team went for a visit to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery for a course on the care of Natural History Collections. Although Mr Wade mainly collected handcrafted objects he also saw great beauty in the natural world. We have some beautiful natural history specimens at Snowshill ranging from turtle shells to pieces of hide. We…
Last week we had some extra volunteers onsite. Guest blogger Richard has written a post telling you what they got up to…. Twelve volunteers and staff from the Whole Trust Volunteering & Community Involvement team met at Snowshill on Friday 6th December for our Christmas learning at work day. Snowshill fought off competition from other…
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