...Jiggity Jig! We've just spent over 9 hours making a four hour journey home from Cornwall!! I would personally like to emasculate the moron in charge of our motorways with a rusty knife! To raise my spirits here are a few pictures of Anthony House, the ancestral home of the Carew family.
The present house, in the care of the National Trust, postdates the English Civil War period.
But the grand entrance hall gives a nod to that epoch with several periods paintings, with nearly-headless Charlie dominating the fireplace wall.
I love this picture: cut out of its frame, thrown in the cellar, rescued and restitched into its frame. All as the Carews supported first one cause, then another. Very ECW if you Ask me.
The colour of the Carew regiment of foote. Protected behind a screen, is it an original?
Some of the medals awarded to one of the Carew-Pole family in the C19th. Can you identify the star? Or any of the others?
Some 'military bits' casually arranged about a door!
A silver table centre piece? A bit posher than the ship in Compton Castle!
Dinner is served! You can make out the ship in the background!
C18th Chinese earthenware funery figures, not brought to England until 1996 apparently.
I loved this painting! The last time England had a decent test team perhaps?
The terrace face of the house. Worth a visit if you are in the area. The tea room doesn't decent pastie as a bonus.
I wonder if the Carew colors are original? That would be something special, wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt would Jonathan.
DeleteVery nice photos and very interesting, the colours are really intriguing, if they are original or not, be nice if they were.
ReplyDeleteThey seem just too bright to me to be original survivors.
DeleteLooks like a very interesting place to visit. i've added it to the "to do" list next time we're in the area. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWell worth a visit, as is Compton Castle too.
DeleteFrom left to right:
ReplyDeleteThe AFGHANISTAN MEDAL
The KABUL TO KANDAHAR STAR MEDAL
The EGYPT MEDAL
The INDIAN GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL
The QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICAN MEDAL
Correct, but the clasps?
DeleteNice way to pass the time David.
ReplyDeleteAt my age, passing the time is all I'm up for some days...
DeleteSome fine photos from the house David:). Sadly the M5 is going through another one of its bouts of accidents, with you caught up in the effects of a bad one, based upon the local news on the day you were travelling.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info SteveJ! It doesn't alter my view of the idiots in charge though.
DeleteColors could be a very faded yellow... but then you'd expect the red to fade more, too. Are the devices lions?
ReplyDeleteIt's a conundrum isn't it? I think they look like heraldic lions.
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