This is a nice ornament we inherited.  It celebrates the first iron bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland and was made in 1810 (the bridge was opened in 1799).  So it is…

One of the paintings which came from Norfolk is huge.  It is by WR Whitby who was painting around the time Castlebank was built – so it is very appropriate to the building.…

We have two samplers which came from Norfolk.  I have always been very fond of these – imagining the little girls who made them. Victorian girls would have been incredibly skilled in comparison…