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@nsxt290 Hi! Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment... We had such a nice time at Haddon it is such a wonderful old house! Best wishes from us both 😊
Well done, chaps ! I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I have been to Haddon Hall but that was when I was in junior school. I am now 67. It was impressive to see that nothing had changed. Thank you for cheering me up on a rainy Sunday x
@janetwilson605 Hi Janet! Thank you so much for watching and commenting on the video... so pleased you enjoyed it! We love Haddon as you say it doesn't change which is wonderful! Best wishes to you from us both 😊
Beautiful home can't believe that it was uninhabited for 200 years, what a restoration that must have been, luck there were no lovely young daughters about when Henry 8th visited!
@user-xd9gi2um9y Hi Judith! Thanks for watching... we believe there was a very small retaining staff who throughout the 200 years would go in to the house to keep it clean... it is such a magical old place we love it! Best wishes to you from us both 😊
Beautiful home and I'm impressed that it has stayed in the same family all this time. As they say, If this house could talk I'm sure it would have many stories to tell. Thank you for the tour.
Hi Andy! Thank you so much for watching and commenting we really appreciate it... as you say I'm sure there must be some wonderful family storys about events and partys and famous visitors! We really enjoyed our visit... Best wishes from us both 😊
@susanmarie7777 Hi! Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment... we really appreciate it. Haddon is one of the most romantically beautiful houses we have ever visited, there's so much history there! Best wishes from us both 😊
Hi James! Thankyou for watching... Haddon is absolutely magical! We love visiting and always see something we haven't noticed before. Hope you're having a great weekend ... Best wishes from us both 😊
@jeannerogers7085 Hi Jeanne! Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment... we absolutely love Haddon and it's beautiful gardens, we are lucky to live only half an hour away... Best wishes Neil and Ant 😊
Besides the modern home equipments and power conveniences, the high living standard surpassed today's grand houses in elegance and spaciousness, without a doubt.
Thx for this great video of this unique house. I'm from Canada and was there May2017. It was also a perfect spring day. This brought back so many memories of exploring this most interesting place and its beautiful setting. The docent that toured us around was fabulous. I could picture all the people and stories down thru the ages. The kitchen which we were told was the oldest original in UK and the original table in great hall fascinated me. I am a lover of history.
@deniserichardson5965 Hi Denise! Thankyou so much for watching and for your lovely comment... so pleased you enjoyed the tour and that it brought back such lovely memories... we love Haddon it really is such a wonderfully romantic house, so much history and so well cared for... sending you our very best wishes across the Seas to Canada, Neil and Ant 😊
@@krishavice2655 Hi Kris! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment... we absolutely love Haddon and feel lucky to live close to it... Best wishes from us both 😊
@@freespirit1776 Hi Douglas! It certainly is... our favourite part is the long gallery with its views over the garden and the countryside beyond... thanks for watching... Best wishes from us both 😊
You both have done a wonderful job and the pictures are beautiful! The only thing that was not joyful was the music. Thank you and will look forward to your next video!
@leighglavesera1676 Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment... we really appreciate it. So pleased you enjoyed our tour of Haddon, we absolutely love it there! Sorry the music wasn't to your liking, we are using very quiet music on our more recent videos... Best wishes from us both 😊
@westernnut8407 Hi! So pleased you enjoyed the video! It is such a beautiful old house and garden ... one of the most romantic anywhere. The gardens are just sublime. What is your connection? Thankyou for watching and commenting, best wishes from us both 😀
@marjoryross2754 Hi Marjory! Thankyou for your comment... the roses at Haddon on a hot sunny day can be intoxicating! So pleased you have such fond memories of the place... Best wishes to you from us both 😀
@@deborahdanhauer8525 Hi Deborah! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment... we really appreciate it! Haddon has always been a real favourite of ours... its charm is unsurpassed. Best wishes from us both 😊
@valeriewarren273 Hi Valerie! Thankyou for watching and taking the time to comment... Haddon is a magical place, we first visited 40 years ago and still find a visit just as exciting today! Best wishes from us both 😊
Hi Pamela! Thankyou so much for watching and for taking the time to comment we really appreciate it ... Haddon is such a special place, really magical... definitely one of our favourites we cannot recommend it enough... always worth a visit! Hope you're having a lovely weekend, Best wishes from us both 😀
Hi Linda! John Manners the 9th Duke of Rutland and his wife moved into the house in the late 1800s after it had stood in "mothballs" for 200 years... they returned the place into a home. It had been maintained with minimal staff and maintainance but needed upgrading and tender loving care... they made it their lives work to get the house and estate back as we see it today... Thank you for watching! Hope you have a great weekend... Best wishes from us both 😊
@ninacurry8799 Hi Nina! Thankyou so much for your lovely comment... we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Haddon it's definitely one of our favourite places! Best wishes from us both 😊
@nina. I have loved since a teenager and I'm in my 60s now. I don't know if it's because I'm getting old and grumpy, but its not as it was. Some of the unique atmosphere has been lost. The gardens were once outstandingly beautiful, and the lovely tearoom has been upmarket, and little gift shop lost to artisan sellers. But the Hall itself is still the same, I love its history and the building and its setting. I used to visit every year, but ticket prices have gone a bit out of my reach. But I can understand why it has to be, especially the huge financial loss there must have been with Covid shutdowns. I just hope it can be looked after with sensitivity for many more years.
@user-qh8nh7oe6d they rebuilt the big bay windows overlooking the gardens from the long gallery so I think they're really trying to preserve and restore... we love the hall too it magical. They do 30% discount for locals so we pay a little less... all good wishes from us both 😊
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Hi Richard ... thankyou for watching and for your very kind comment, it is very much appreciated. Learning all the time and trying to make good videos [some turn out better than others to be honest] Haddon was a real pleasure to visit and this is a video we enjoyed making that turned out well we think... Haddon is not too far from us and it is always a joy to go... it is wonderful that you are watching from such a beautiful place! We send you our very best wishes 😊
This is one of our all time favourite houses! It is magical, a video doesn't convey the atmosphere but the atmosphere is incredible! This house is frozen in time after standing empty for 200 years ... thankyou so much for watching 😊
I really enjoyed your tour, thank you so much! I visited Haddon Hall about 30 years ago (in June) and still remember the marverous old roses in full broom everywhere. I'm so glad that nothing has changed. I loved the quirky narrow stairwell off the couryard and real mullioned windows... I'm glad that I could see the part which were not open back then.
@sato611 Hi June! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting... Haddon is a very special place you never forget the scent of the roses! Best wishes from us both 😊
Hi Deborah! Thank you so much, so pleased that you enjoyed it 😊 Thankyou for watching and taking the time to comment we really do appreciate it... Haddon cast its spell over us and I'm sure it won't be long before we pay a return visit... the gardens on their own are really worth a visit. We send you our best wishes and hope you have a great weekend 😀
My most favourite hall in England 💖, so sad, so many of this era were lost in time i.e 'modernised' as fashion changed, thank you for walking us around. I really must research where they found the wall lights in the dining hall as another 💖 😁
Hi! Thank you so much for watching and commenting we really appreciate it! I think it's one of our favourite places too... it really is like stepping back in time! The lights are possibly 1920s ? They are lovely... The dining room was part of the original banqueting hall originally but we think it makes the perfect dining space... Best wishes from us both 😊
Thanks for the tour, a little more history on the house itself, when started for who and how long to complete. Who was it built for, how many rooms etc! Cheers.....
@robertguerrero8009 Hi Robert! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting. We absolutely love Haddon Hall... it is only 25 minutes from our home so is somewhere we visit often... there is more information on the the house in the video description... if you click on there you will see more details on its history, build date etc... very best wishes to you from us both 😊
Wow! This place is right up my street - love the long gallery - beautiful space. Congrats on the 1k subs - very well deserved. Enjoy the weekend - Don 🙂
Hi Don! Thank you for watching and for the congrats! We really enjoyed Haddon it is the kind of place that just keeps giving 😀 The Long Gallery is simply beautiful we loved the lighter coloured paneling... Hope you have a great weekend too 😊
Hi! Thankyou so very much! We really appreciate your kind comment and support... it's amazing to have you watching from the USA... We hope you have a great weekend, Best wishes from us both 😊
@cindy-wo4qt Hi Cindy! Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment, we really appreciate it. We loved every minute at Haddon it's a really magical place... the gardens are the icing on the cake! Sending our very best wishes to you in Texas ... Neil and Ant 😊
@dereckbrannigan6195 Hi Dereck! It's an amazing old place... wd love visiting it! That's a great piece of info ... thanks for sharing! Best wishes Neil and Ant 😊
@execbum1 Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to comment we really appreciate it... Haddon is a magical place you won't be disappointed if you visit nearby Bakewell is certainly worth seeing while you're there and Chstsworth is just around the corner ✨️ Best wishes from us both 😊
so beautiful.. im a sucker for history and architecture, guys im so jalous,here in my country we have nothing like that... well presented video :) well done
@deealex1402 Hi! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting! Haddon us a dream of a place with so much to see and so much history! We love it! Yes we are very lucky to have so many wonderful places here... Best wishes to you from us both 😊
What a beautiful place and so amazingly original. What a treasure. One of my direct ancestral lines goes through Geoffrey Bolelyn and Anne Hoo, so Hever castle was their ancestral home. If the family who owns Haddon also owned Hever then we are most likely distantly related. How lucky they are to have ended up with it. I have direct ancestry also going back through the Fitz Allen and Howard families who still reside at Arundel castle. And I descend from the English Kings line. If all of these beautiful ancestral homes were a race I'd say that we missed winning it by a nose. 😃
@@karensullivan8458 Hi Karen! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting on our Haddon video! It is one of our favourite houses! Your lineage is amazing... to have those connections is fantastic! I guess 2nd son syndrome must have played a part as everything went to the 1st born in those days... sending best wishes from us both 😊
@@chrisisjustme7546 Thank you for the lovely reply. Yes, it was exactly that, second son syndrome and sometimes a daughter. I just started doing genealogy a year ago and was hoping to find maybe someone who was knighted so imagine my delight when I found so many royal connections. I've found that once you get back into the royal houses it is all that as they tried marrying their second sons and daughters into other royal houses. We go back into some houses through the first born heirs all the way back into legend. For instance, I just found one branch coming out of an English royal family that goes back into ancient Britain ruled by the Romans. It went then into Emperors and Caesars of Rome, through into Assyrian rulers and then finally back into Troy. Eventually coming out to Prince Aeneas who was the half mortal son of the Goddess Aphrodite!! As legend has it. He was said to be the last Trojan warrior because he was protected in battle by his Godly relatives in battle and because of this the only one who survived. His sons, were who Rome was named after and his Grandfathers, Ilus who Homer wrote the Ilead for and Ilus' son Tros, who founded Troy. Of course there is no real record going back that far, but they have the legend of who was born to who and it was going back that far and it was amazing to find. I am learning history this way in a way that I never knew it before. I loved this video of yours. It was so beautifully done. I have subscribed to your channel and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos today. It's a lovely rainy day here, and I'm looking forward to resting and viewing more of your beautiful videos. Thank you again for taking the time to reply. Blessings.
@karensullivan8458 Thankyou so much! We mostly visit historic houses but we also add a few videos of our other adventures including holidays etc! Your genealogy is fascinating... keep on digging! With 7 degrees of separation we may be related too! All the best 😊
@retroguy49uk Thankyou so much! Haddon is one of our all time favourite houses and only 25 minutes from home. We had such a great time on this visit everything was a pleasure including the garden and the meal at the end! Really appreciate you watching and commenting... Neil and Ant 😊
Hi Neil and Ant congratulations on 1k subscribers well deserved your videos are so well presented and full of such a lot of information. We loved your visit to Haddon Hall we must have just missed each other again, one day we will cross paths and share that cup of coffee. Living near to Belvoir we love the link with these two magnificent properties, what a choice they had between the two. We really enjoyed your video a great job. The wood panelling here is wonderful. You would have to go a long way to get a more beautiful setting and garden than this. The roses are just wonderful against the walls. We agree it feels like stepping back in time you can imagine being in tudor times with the flowing dresses taking a walk before a grand banquet. The chapel walls are amazing so atmospheric. We enjoyed a coffee too. The food looked good. A big 👍 from us. Hope you are having a great week. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
Hi Dave and Dawn! Thankyou for watching and for the congrats! 🥰 When I saw your vlog last week I kept wondering if we were there at the same time lol 😆 It's such a wonderfully romantic house and gardens we completely lost ourselves there for a few hours it was so nice... and the restaurant serves really nice good quality food 😋 Ant really enjoyed the gardens on this visit he loves roses🌹 The Long gallery is such a beautiful room, we love the soft colour of the panelling it's so unusual! I hope we do bump into you at some point... the first coffee is definitely on us! We hope you're having a great week, and sending you our very best wishes for a lovely weekend 😀
I first learned about this about two years ago while researching my family tree. My 12 times or so great grandmother was the original Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. I did not know anything about this, but from my family tree, there was a couple of short stories recorded about the Dorothy Vernon legend, and after several plays were written and performed in London, Australia, and New York, in the 1923 or so a movie, starring a Mary Pickwith, was made. Dorothy Vernon was also a 12th Great Grandmother of Lady Diana Spencer, William and Harry's mother. The plays went thru several revisions over the years, with Dorothy ridding off during the night to rescue Mary Queen of Scots being persued by Qween Elizabeth I, and other revisions into Cromwell's occupation of England.
Hi guys. I'm just curious, but have you any interest in great houses and palaces outside the UK? I got interested in these grand old structures when I was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, during the cold war. I was stationed there from 1981-1983. I spent all my free time roaming old palaces and castles in Europe, from ruined and abandoned to privately owned, and everything in between. But the palace of Caserta is the one that blows me away. You have to see it to believe it. Love your videos.
Hi! Thankyou for watching and commenting! Great question and yes we'd love to! We recently watched a video on Caserta it is HUGE isn't it... it is definitely on our bucket list! We'd like to see Versailles too... We have talked about a European road trip so I think one-day it will happen. We hope your week has got off to a good start and we send you our very best wishes , Neil and Ant 😊
Beautiful building, beautiful interior decorations, gorgeous gardens, but these wonderful places always seem to me somehow cold, and 'unlived-in'. In fact, the most welcoming part of the house seemed to be the kitchen area, which was the 'busiest' place, with its utensils and workaday tools. Do the owners actually live there?
@vivienhodgson3299 Hi Vivien! Thanks for watching and commenting... in their time these houses would have bustled with dozens of staff, gardeners and big families living in them... now they are just maintained I guess. We love Haddon, it is only 20 minutes from our home. Best wishes from us both 😊
For some reason I have no comment area on my IPad which is frustrating when I watch your videos so using my phone. I so enjoy your tours of these wonderful places. I so miss coming to the UK.
Hi Deborah! Thankyou so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment via your phone... so kind of you. So pleased you enjoy our little outings we love touring these houses... We particularly enjoyed our day at Haddon Hall... We hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes from us both 😊
Hi! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting! We love Haddon it's our favourite place and the gardens are just beautiful too! Best wishes from us both 😊
Hi 👋 Guys. A stunning place. The atmosphere there must be amazing. Maybe a ghost or two lurking around . Was that the tinkling piano intro to a Johnnie Mathis song ?. I like his vocals. From Carl in NZ.
Hi Carl! I'm sure there must be a few spirits wandering the corridors at night ... though it really doesn't feel at all spooky... perhaps it does at night though, we would love a wander around after dark! Thank you so much for watching and commenting we appreciate your support. Best wishes from Neil and Ant 😊
@jenniferevans6334 Thankyou! It really is a very special place... we felt like we'd stepped back in time! Thank you for watching... have a great weekend, Best wishes from us both 😊
Though Chatsworth is grandiose, Haddon Hall is much more cozy, it's more homely and less like a museum or showpiece. It's well worth visiting the two at around the same time to compare them. You could compare both with Hardwick Hall which isn't far from them. Go on a weekday or slightly off-season when it's less crowded but beware that Haddon closes for the winter season.
@weejackrussell Hi! Thankyou so much for watching and commenting we really appreciate it... Your comment is great advice for anyone visiting the area... Best wishes from us both 😊
If you enjoyed this video check out our Holkham Hall video... this Norfolk mansion is palatial! Link below 👇 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gFzrcqFDdoI.htmlsi=2tOUKRtLXTmwNQZz
My wife and I have always loved Haddon Hall. Your video work and commentary are very enjoyable. But we have to mute the audio and have captioning, which we would like to avoid because it interferes with the visuals. But it is difficult to get lost in the wonderful atmosphere of the place while hearing the constant presence of the background soundtrack. To us, it is an irritating and unnecessary addition to an otherwise fine video. Maybe you will reconsider its use here. But we did just subscribe, and we look forward to seeing more of your work.
Hi Carl and Susan... thankyou for watching, commenting and subscribing. Haddon is unique in its history and atmosphere, we love visiting . The gardens are a delight we could spend hours just wandering around outside. We have a Norfolk trip coming up and will certainly try a video without backing... We hope you have a good week and send you our best wishes 😊
@margaretbrooker9744 Hi Margaret... unfortunately not... thankyou for watching and taking the time to comment... sorry that the music is not to your taste... Best wishes from us both 😊
