Saturday we visited Wimpole Hall, the largest working estate in Cambridgeshire, which was built in 1643, switched ownership lots of times over the centuries, and was actually used as a home until Elsie Bambridge died in the 1970s. (Interestingly, Mrs. Bambridge was the daughter of Rudyard Kipling.) The above photo is the front of the Hall, and the below photo is the back, from the parterre.
Our tour guide told us a hilarious story about Mrs. Bambridge, who lived as a widow in the house for 30 years after her husband died. Apparently Wimpole Hall was along a main thoroughfare, and she hated all the traffic in front of her house. One time a family stopped on her lawn for a picnic (without her consent), and Mrs. Bambridge, annoyed, copied their license plate number. She used that number to locate the family and drove her Rolls Royce to their house and began to picnic in their garden!
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I bet the other family thought it was truly great that she took the time to find their family and dine at their home :)
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