Inner glow

Eaten

Black and white

The black hole

Molten

A few details of the lovely frieze in the night nursery. it is by sporting artist and book illustrator Cecil Adams.



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Some of the beautiful rooms at Wightwick Manor.
The inscription over the fireplace in the bedroom reads
'Imaginations calm and fair.
The memory like a cloudless air.
The conscience as a sea at rest.'



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More walls



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Some of the fabulous wall coverings

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Bull's eye glass


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Tiles over the door


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A history of modification



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Round the back

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Decorative gutter



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Wightwick chimneys


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The gables of Wightwick Manor are complete with quotations.
One says:
'Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out sighing'

Others include lines from the poem, To Phyllis, to Love and Live with him by Robert Herrick

'What sweets the country can afford shall bless thy bed and bless thy board'
'Live, live with me and thou shalt see the pleasures I'll prepare for thee'
'Thy feasting tables shall be hills with daisies spread and daffodils'

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To Phyllis, to Love and Live with him by Robert Herrick

This was the home of the Manders Family and is described as the haven of a romantic industrialist.

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Bridge


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Hot drums


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Music

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Catching the light

Reflecting a reflection

Canal reflection


Gas Street Basin