ГлавнаяИсторическая литератураChristopher Sykes SimonThe Big House: The Story of a Country House . This is the house in which my family have lived for 250 years. It is where I was brought up and spent my adolescence

ГлавнаяИсторическая литератураChristopher Sykes SimonThe Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family. Уменьшить шрифт (-) Увеличить шрифт (+). Christopher Sykes Simon The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family. The Story of a Country House. Christopher Simon Sykes. It is where I was brought up and spent my adolescence. Though I left it when I was eighteen, I still feel attached to it as if by some invisible umbilical cord.

The Big House’ is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there, with varying fates, for the next two hundred and fifty years

The Big House’ is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there, with varying fates, for the next two hundred and fifty years. It is a fascinating social history set against the backdrop of a changing England, with a highly individual, pugnacious and self-determining cast, including: ‘Old Tat’ Sykes, said to be one of the great sights of Yorkshire (the author’s andfather), who wore 18th-century dress to the day of his death at ninety-one in 1861.

The Big House’ is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there, with varying fates, for the next two hundred and fifty years. The Big House - Christopher Simon Sykes.

The daily entries in his pocket books show that scarcely a day went by without him entertaining somebody, either to lunch or dinner

He had not had to look far, for his bride was his first cousin, Anna Maria Edge, the widow of a Hull merchant, Thomas Edge. The daily entries in his pocket books show that scarcely a day went by without him entertaining somebody, either to lunch or dinner. If it wasn’t Parson Paul, then it was family or his tenants and neighbours. No doubt they relished their visits to Sledmere, for Richard was nothing if not a bon-vivant.

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The house stood in front of a rectangular ‘garden’, with a few trees on. .

The house stood in front of a rectangular ‘garden’, with a few trees on either side and the Mere in the middle. To the east lay the Kitchen Garden with its glasshouses. Though family legend has always maintained that Christopher was the pioneer in this department, the truth is that he was carrying on a tradition that had been started by his Uncle Richard, when he took in hand the land which formed The Avenue, and later an area to its west, to form the Park.

Journalist Sykes presents a biography of the great country house, Sledmere, and his ancestors, who have inhabited the house for generations.

The Big House’ is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there . More by Christopher Simon Sykes. Hockney: The Biography Volume 1.

Christopher Simon Sykes grew up at Sledmere, and went on to become a journalist, photographer and writer

Christopher Simon Sykes grew up at Sledmere, and went on to become a journalist, photographer and writer. His work has appeared in & & & Garden', the & Telegraph' magazine and & Digest' amongst others, and he wrote and presented & Crust', a six-part series on country house cookery for BBC Two. He has written six and photographed fourteen books, including & National Trust Country House Album', & Rolling Stones on Tour' and & Garden at Buckingham Palace'

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