Sunday, 1 November 2015

We went to Nuffield Place

which is Lord Nuffield's rather unassuming country house next to Huntercombe prison in Oxfordshire.
Elegant basin, sh1t chair.
No tiger skin on the wall but

there is an electric exercise horse


Worst lighting in the world, flash not allowed so get used to some dodgy colour casts as well as some dodgy captions

Posh thing at the top of the stairs







It's an early sunlamp, William Morris introduced them into the factories to top up the workers' vitamin D levels during the winter. He was also one of the first to heat factories.

And a Flit gun for spraying that wonderful DDT

Another dodgy looking lamp

Barograph

The great man's toolshed in a wardrobe

and the great man's pickled appendix 'twixt ink bottle and mallet


Looks like Adolf Hitler on the left and Jeremy Thorpe on the right
 




Either another sunlamp or else a wife disposal device
 






Massive double bedroom with an oriental theme



And it plays very well


Couldn't resist 







He did like his longcase clocks


And I liked those window frames

and this

The End