This week is National Lottery Open Week when properties which have received funding from the National Lottery offer free admission, actually you need to produce a lottery card though. A few months ago I found four used scratchcards on a bus seat and so I used two of them today to go to Hardwick Hall with Siobhan, my support worker. There are actually two halls, the Old Hall which is in ruins, and the new hall.
Convient access to the ruined old hall was blocked off because of building work and so this was the best photograph I could manage. There was a longer way to get nearer but it was too far for Siobhan though.
The new hall didn't open until eleven o'clock and so we had an hour to enjoy the gardens.
We were very disappointed with the building; it was very dark inside so as to protect the tapestries from sunlight, and since large tapestries were hung on nearly every wall there wasn't much room left for paintings...there was very little furniture and only a few pieces of art.
We stopped at Bolsover on the way back for a pub lunch and then stopped again at a farmshop near Worksop for tea and cake at the cafe.
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