Category: Video Wednesday

Video Wednesday – Stately Home Renovations

Dumfries House

Prince Charles – the Royal Restoration of Dumfries House – Documentary 46 minutes.

Tim Wonnacott and Rosemary Shrager visit some of the castles, palaces and stately homes frequented by Queen Victoria during her lifetime. They begin with Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. 30 minutes.

I Own Britain’s Best Home – The Yorkshire Castle, a renovated folly.  10 minutes.

Grand Designs – The Dilapidated Georgian House– 55 minutes.

Tour round the interior of abandoned Berkyn Manor. 4 minutes.

Wentworth Woodhouse – the incredible, sinking stately home. 3 minutes.

Restoration Home – Stoke Hall. 49 minutes

Video Wednesday: Debutantes of 1939

The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the Duke of Wellington, Viscountess Macmillan, Lady Bowman, Diana Tennant, Sir Martyn Beckett, Betty Morton, Peggy Cripps and the Duchess of Northumberland reminisce about the debutante season, Nazis, the Coldstream Guards, the Big Apple, the Kennedy Family, the Ritz Bar and all manner of things that recall a vanished way of life. Fascinating stuff. 48 minutes.

Video Wednesday

Colour footage of London during the Blitz shot by Alfred Coucher, wartime mayor and chief air raid warden of Marylebone, west London. The film comes to light 70 years after having been stored in his attic. Watch the six minute video covering it’s discovery, listen to historians discuss the impact of the Blitz on London and learn about the Blitz Project and the on-going digitalization of the online archives.
 
 
 
 
 

Video Wednesday

 
Watch the Duke of Bedford get dressed in 90 seconds
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Duke of Connaught hunts tigers in the Indian jungle – 1921
 
 
 
 
 
Arundels welcome the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk home after their honeymoon – 1937
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
64 Year old Duchess of Bedford leaves in her famous Fokker (in which she flew to India and back) piloted by Captain Charles D. Barnard – 1930
 
 

A slideshow history of the Wellington Arch, built to commemorate the
Duke of Wellington’s victory over Napoleon – it boasts the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.