October 2010
SPECIAL INTEREST DAY
MAPS, LETTERS AND LITTLE
SPECIAL INTEREST DAY
DITTIES: EXPLORING THE
CAN YOU JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS
HISTORY OF WADDESDON’S
COVER? MAGNIFICENT BOOKS
GARDENS AND LANDSCAPE
AND BINDINGS AT WADDESDON
Thursday 14 October
Thursday 7 October
10.30 - 4.00
10.30 - 4.00
Archival documents like maps, letters,
This year a special exhibition focuses on
ledgers and newspapers reports are
Ferdinand de Rothschild’s splendid book
invaluable in tracing the history of the
collection amassed here at Waddesdon
gardens and wider landscape at
Manor. Curator, Kristina Petri, will open up Waddesdon, from its creation in the late
these treasures for you, examine them inside 19th century to the present. This day traces
and out, tell the story of their making and the historic development of the estate,
their shelf life. The day will include the rare through examining some of the historic
opportunity to examine some of the books material at first hand.
that are usually kept under lock and key.
£60.50, £55.00 NT members (includes coffee on
£60.50, £55.00 NT members (includes coffee on
arrival two course set lunch with wine, tea and
arrival two course set lunch with wine, tea and
cake).
cake).
APPLE AND AUTUMN FRUITS
BEHIND THE SCENES
FOOD FAIR AT
TOUR OF THE HOUSE
WADDESDON PLANT CENTRE
Friday 8 and Friday 29 October
Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October
10.30 - 12.00
10.30 - 4.00
Join one of the curatorial team to learn
As well as apples, there’ll be ciders and
about life at Waddesdon, how it was used
juices to try, home cooked dishes in the
in the 19th century and how it was run as
Plant Centre café and a local food and
a country house. Explore rooms where the
produce market.
servants would have lived and worked, and
Admission FREE. Normal
find out how we use these areas of the admission charges apply
House today. to Waddesdon Manor
Adult £20.00, Child £10.00, £7.25 NT members.
and Gardens.
24 01296 653226
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www.waddesdon.org.uk
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