Not the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

I messed things up this evening. I left work and headed for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton as I thought it was the Museums at Night event.  Onlly three cars in the car park when I arrived. Oops - wrong night! The event is on Saturday!

Plan B: a quick google search and 34 minutes later I am in the cafe at Nostell Priory. A National Trust property. 

There was only a dozen or so visitors so I had most of the rooms to myself and personal attention from the guides. The derelict attics - originally used as servants' quarters, and later as WW2 barracks - were open to the public for the event. The house took on a totally different atmosphere as dusk fell.

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One of the properties thats I look after - Oakwell Hall will be featuring on TV this weekend he period drama Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, based on Susanna Clarke’s best-selling novel.