I’m an American and I have never been to Britain, but my great grandmother (who was eleven at the time the Second World War broke out) actually fled from Rotherham and stayed in Wentworth Woodhouse for two and a half years! She said she could feel the whole building shake whenever bombs went off and saw the sky light up like fireworks almost every night due to bombings. She lived in only one wing of the house and when she first passed by the stables, she thought they were so big that was their house! By the end of their stay, she thought she was gentry! I hope to visit someday and rediscover a very important chapter of my heritage.
🥺 it’s like watching a horror movie hearing and seeing some beautiful historic buildings disappear forever. However, it’s wonderful to see such love and pride being given by dedicated individuals/teams for the ones that do survive 💖
❤ The exhibit - a brilliant idea to bring about the awareness of the demolition of so many cultural gems. Hopefully, this film ignites the value of restoration and regeneration of such places as Wentworth Woodhouse to light...and creates funding to save this magnificent survivor.
It's one of the first that we made and still one of our most popular videos. Keep watching the channel, because later this month we're releasing a three-part feature which in part looks at country houses that weren't so fortunate.
I have the catalogue of this exibition, it's so sad. I have about 20 such books on lost houses in Ireland also. In Scotland one such huge estate was demolished after only standing 40 years and in my mothers village a huge Robert Adam house was torn down to build a massive Gothic castle ( although land wasn't lacking ) and even that was demolished after a few years and a housing estate now stands in it's place. I grew up playing in a gorgeous Georgian house that even had furniture still in it but after the lead was stolen and rain got in, someone set it on fire. It is now on the Buildings at Risk register which is rather unforgiveable considering it was perfect and simply suffered neglect.
Thanks Mike! It's actually a remake of the very first video that we made during Lockdown number 1 in 2020. When we viewed the two together, you can see how far we've come. Gad you liked it!
Beautiful and poignant video showing all the houses that we have lost, but it focuses how important it is to treasure the houses and we have, and like the Phoenix rising, our wonderful, wonderful Wentworth Woodhouse is coming back to life. Moves me to tears so see it "living" again
Besides cost, there was also the issue of nobody wanting to go "in service" that helped kill off some of these large houses. We had the same problems involved in losing these beauties (Newport, Lenox, Long Island) here in the USA. The issue is just as dismal, if not worse, when talking about the great city houses.
You're absolutely correct! Social and political changes played a huge part in the decline of houses like Wentworth Woodhouse. The same will be true for such places in America and other parts of the world too.
There is of course always the question endemic to heritage funding: How many do we need to preserve? There are the obviously extraordinary houses like Wentworth Woodhouse, Castle Howard, Blenheim Palace, Hardwick Hall and so on, but when you step down a level or three on the scale there were just SO MANY of them, and some were perhaps not that easy to convert to other uses. (Sad as that is.) I'm glad, though, that there are so many wonderful survivors, though. In a sense the Great English Country Houses deserve to be named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a collective entity with a wide geographical spread.
ALL OF THEM. They ALL have a use if people just use their brains. Tearing down buildings is utterly stupid unless it's beyond salvage. People don't try. Plenty of people need housing. When a building is torn down, it's a waste of the labor that built it, the materials and the hard earned lifetimes of money required.
Wentworth was offered to the National Trust but they turned them down, not interested. Wentworth though is a spectacular house,, the frontage is 1/8 of a mile long. National Trust is always interested in houses "down south", but in the North of England, naw, not interested. I found the 20th century history of the house so interesting though, even the coal board seemed intent on destroying it, luckily it has the Yorkshire stamina and keeps fighting on.
So tragic and depressing. All for naught. They could have been saved if county tax people had half a wit to reduce taxes or better, eliminate taxes on houses mothballed. Keep a good roof on, board up the windows and keep some air movement going to prevent mold and the house could be saved until a new owner can take over. Simply no point in destroying it. Makes me so angry. There's always a solution. Could be turned into housing of some sort. Think people.
Many of them were architectural monstroities built by people with more money than taste. Good riddance. So long as we have a few of the better ones and the social history is also included. Some owners were benevolent and others cruel horrors. When I go to Swinton in N Yorks I see how Lister profited from the poverty of his workers (not that you would know that from the grand house.) When I go to Saltaire I see how benevolent Titus salt was (but his house Milnerfield was so horrible it was allowed to fall down unoccupied). That is just two Bradford mill owners.
I’m an American and I have never been to Britain, but my great grandmother (who was eleven at the time the Second World War broke out) actually fled from Rotherham and stayed in Wentworth Woodhouse for two and a half years! She said she could feel the whole building shake whenever bombs went off and saw the sky light up like fireworks almost every night due to bombings. She lived in only one wing of the house and when she first passed by the stables, she thought they were so big that was their house! By the end of their stay, she thought she was gentry! I hope to visit someday and rediscover a very important chapter of my heritage.
🥺 it’s like watching a horror movie hearing and seeing some beautiful historic buildings disappear forever.
However, it’s wonderful to see such love and pride being given by dedicated individuals/teams for the ones that do survive 💖
Yes... very sad to see how much of our heritage has been lost locally. Luckily, Wentworth Woodhouse survived the storm and is in safe hands now 🙂
❤ The exhibit - a brilliant idea to bring about the awareness of the demolition of so many cultural gems. Hopefully, this film ignites the value of restoration and regeneration of such places as Wentworth Woodhouse to light...and creates funding to save this magnificent survivor.
♥️ thesa old Manor time and cost taking them away thanks for the video more to come ♥️✌️✌️🏰⛪🏫
❤ Excellent film on the value of saving historical country residences like Wentworth Woodhouse.
It's one of the first that we made and still one of our most popular videos. Keep watching the channel, because later this month we're releasing a three-part feature which in part looks at country houses that weren't so fortunate.
I have the catalogue of this exibition, it's so sad. I have about 20 such books on lost houses in Ireland also. In Scotland one such huge estate was demolished after only standing 40 years and in my mothers village a huge Robert Adam house was torn down to build a massive Gothic castle ( although land wasn't lacking ) and even that was demolished after a few years and a housing estate now stands in it's place. I grew up playing in a gorgeous Georgian house that even had furniture still in it but after the lead was stolen and rain got in, someone set it on fire. It is now on the Buildings at Risk register which is rather unforgiveable considering it was perfect and simply suffered neglect.
Lovely video Steve! Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Mike! It's actually a remake of the very first video that we made during Lockdown number 1 in 2020. When we viewed the two together, you can see how far we've come. Gad you liked it!
Beautiful and poignant video showing all the houses that we have lost, but it focuses how important it is to treasure the houses and we have, and like the Phoenix rising, our wonderful, wonderful Wentworth Woodhouse is coming back to life. Moves me to tears so see it "living" again
Thank you. We are indeed very lucky that Wentworth Woodhouse survived into the 21st Century.
Wonderful video Steve!
Thanks Alex! Hope the job is going well 🙂
Besides cost, there was also the issue of nobody wanting to go "in service" that helped kill off some of these large houses. We had the same problems involved in losing these beauties (Newport, Lenox, Long Island) here in the USA. The issue is just as dismal, if not worse, when talking about the great city houses.
You're absolutely correct! Social and political changes played a huge part in the decline of houses like Wentworth Woodhouse. The same will be true for such places in America and other parts of the world too.
What do you mean by in service?
WWI obliterated an entire class of people employed as service workers.
@@BigBirdy100became servants
There is of course always the question endemic to heritage funding: How many do we need to preserve?
There are the obviously extraordinary houses like Wentworth Woodhouse, Castle Howard, Blenheim Palace, Hardwick Hall and so on, but when you step down a level or three on the scale there were just SO MANY of them, and some were perhaps not that easy to convert to other uses. (Sad as that is.)
I'm glad, though, that there are so many wonderful survivors, though. In a sense the Great English Country Houses deserve to be named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a collective entity with a wide geographical spread.
We are very lucky that so many did survive. Interesting point about UNESCO. Thank you.
ALL OF THEM. They ALL have a use if people just use their brains. Tearing down buildings is utterly stupid unless it's beyond salvage.
People don't try. Plenty of people need housing. When a building is torn down, it's a waste of the labor that built it, the materials and the hard earned lifetimes of money required.
Would be nice to have a few more 2nd or 3rd tier historic houses in Lincolnshire....
What do you do when you see a developer?
RUN! 🏃
Wentworth was offered to the National Trust but they turned them down, not interested. Wentworth though is a spectacular house,, the frontage is 1/8 of a mile long. National Trust is always interested in houses "down south", but in the North of England, naw, not interested. I found the 20th century history of the house so interesting though, even the coal board seemed intent on destroying it, luckily it has the Yorkshire stamina and keeps fighting on.
yea l thought it wouldn't have mattered if it was by London or up the north of uk England with the national trust l noticed that to
So sad. The word "demolished".
So tragic and depressing. All for naught. They could have been saved if county tax people had half a wit to reduce taxes or better, eliminate taxes on houses mothballed. Keep a good roof on, board up the windows and keep some air movement going to prevent mold and the house could be saved until a new owner can take over. Simply no point in destroying it. Makes me so angry. There's always a solution. Could be turned into housing of some sort. Think people.
Many of them were architectural monstroities built by people with more money than taste. Good riddance. So long as we have a few of the better ones and the social history is also included. Some owners were benevolent and others cruel horrors. When I go to Swinton in N Yorks I see how Lister profited from the poverty of his workers (not that you would know that from the grand house.) When I go to Saltaire I see how benevolent Titus salt was (but his house Milnerfield was so horrible it was allowed to fall down unoccupied). That is just two Bradford mill owners.