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travelella · 27 days

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Shugborough Hall, Great Haywood, Staffordshire, UK

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Home to the Anson family since 1624, it was once described as ‘a perfect paradise’. Visit this important piece of Staffordshire's heritage for a full day of discoveries.

The stories of Shugborough are entangled with the exploits and interests of two brothers, Thomas and George Anson. Their fortunes and their social position shaped Shugborough; understanding the origins of their power helps us to interpret the ideas and materials which flooded into Britain throughout the 18th century, furnishing homes, forging fashions and changing culture.

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bloomingmindfulness · 2 years

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"It was so nice to feel heard after so long feeling like I didn’t exist in a world that I don’t seem to have a voice in." New Blog Post: https://www.bloomingmindfulness.co.uk/hope-for-accessibility/

#accessibility #disability #blogger #national trust #shugborough

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mypepemateosus · 10 months

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#Shugborough Hall - Staffordshire #Inglaterra -

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derkabobhall · 10 months

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Shugborough Hall. (Cannock Chase 2023)

#travel #shugborough hall #cannock chase #staffordshire #england #no filter #country house #stately home #neoclassicism #neoclassical

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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Britt Ekland photographed by Patrick Lichfield for Vogue at the grounds of Litchfield's home, Shugborough, in May of 1970.

#patrick lichfield #vogue #1970s #spring #britt ekland #fairycore #lichfield

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ancientorigins · 5 months

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The Shepherds Monument contains a secret code that has confounded some of the finest minds of the past 250 years, and proved irresistible to hundreds of conspiracy theorists. So what does it really mean?

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ninthearlofdorset · 7 months

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Shugborough Hall, current home to the Earls of Lichfield, Staffordshire England 🇬🇧

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saintsenara · 2 months

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I'll throw one of my two fav rarepairs in the ring:

Ollivander/Dumbledore and Dumbledore/Slughorn

Thoughts?

(Also on a random note, my phone tried to autocorrect Slughorn to Shugborough. I'm now going to google wtf that even is)

thank you very much for the ask, anon! and thank you to your autocorrect for advertising shugborough hall and gardens... technology is a fan of the national trust, who knew?

albus dumbledore/garrick ollivander

i'm hugely compelled by this one, because i think you've got the same thing which makes grindledore so tasty - that sort of all-consuming passion fuelled by a shared [and not always moral] intellectual interest. canonically, ollivander has a slightly voldemort-ish belief in the power of magic alone, rather than in a divide between light or dark magic, and we also know that this is how dumbledore once thought of things too. i think you could do something quite fabulously messy with these two...

and the pairing also allows me to indulge a headcanon that i am wedded to - that dumbledore asks ollivander to make him the paired phoenix wands with the expectation that he will keep the holly one for himself and give the yew one to grindlewald.

albus dumbledore/horace slughorn

this one is - if you ask me [which, let's be fair, you have] - more of a crack ship, but no less excellent for it.

obviously, both slughorn and dumbledore are giving... "confirmed bachelor", which eliminates one problem, and they also have a shared interest in doing nothing to help their orphaned pupils thrive at hogwarts beyond clocking them as hotties. they also have a shared sweet tooth - i bet our horace would love to let dumbledore have a little rummage in his box of crystallised pineapple.

but it's also clear that slughorn thinks that dumbledore's a machiavellian eccentric and dumbledore thinks that slughorn's a gluttonous gold-digger. i like the idea of each of them thinking they have the upper hand in the relationship [and of each of them repeatedly assuring themselves that they don't actually like the other], as they chuckle contentedly about what an idiot their boyfriend is.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #ship names for these?#dollivander #slugdore #albus dumbledore #garrick ollivander #horace slughorn

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the-princess-and-the-admiral · 1 year

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I’ve just been to visit Shugborough Estate and to see Lord Lichfield’s private apartments.

There’s lots of photographs of the Royal Family and Anne taken by Patrick Lichfield on display including these ones below. (There was no photography allowed inside the apartments, so I’ve just nicked these from google)

We were speaking to one of the volunteers who pointed out a photo of a teenage Anne on a mini motorbike type thing and he told us that Anne holds the record for the fastest mile along the Shugborough Estate on a mini motorbike (a record that to this day, no one has broken!!🤣)

Also on display are the Lichfield family coronation robes and coronation chairs from the last 4 coronations👑

#Anne the speed demon #Princess Anne #Princess Royal #British Royal Family

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notwiselybuttoowell · 1 month

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In 2002, UK performance artist Ansuman Biswas responded to Staffordshire County Council’s application for one weekend as a resident hermit (stipend provided) at the Shugborough Estate for an exhibition called “Solitude.” In 2009, Biswas lived a hermit once more, this time spending 40 days and nights in a gothic tower attached to the Manchester Museum. Through a webcam and a blog, Biswas let the public observe his experience.

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anotherdayinbliss · 1 year

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