Regency Ramble

Wishing you all the best for the Holidays and a healthy and happy New Year. The winner of my part of the Annual Harlequin Historical ...

If you are wondering why I have been absent for a while, it is because I had gone over my allowed limit of photos and have been trying to f...

Sarah Mallory,  http://onebellesstrategem. blogspot.co.uk/  author of Book Five in the Castonbury Park  Continuity Series, The Illegitimat...

What else might you find in the well-equipped drawing room.  A musical instrument.  In this case there is a square piano. A small elegant ...

I promised you something interesting from our Georgian Drawing Room last time. This is a card table. Duh! But as you can see when not in...

I can see from my stats, that my readers are all about the fashion. Which is great! But there is so much other stuff that I find fascinati...

Last day we took a look at what has to be a beautiful staircase added in Georgian times.  Here we have the dining room fitted out by Sir...

Much of Buckland is devoted to the history of one of it most famous owner, Sir Francis Drake and quite a bit of that is of more recent pro...

In case you are wondering where I was, I have been travelling again, so I can bring you more wonderful pictures of Britain.  I have also bee...

Fashion in Riding habits, this one for August 1812 from La Belle Assemblee . This is without doubt a complicated outfit.  Herewith the d...

This year our explorations started from Salcombe in Devon.  We stayed in a hotel on South Sands. We only had to cross a narrow road to get...

I have a feeling this country lane hasn't change much over the centuries. The bushes on the banks touched both sides of the car. I found...

There has been a village in Marnhull since Saxon times. It is located in the Blackmore Vale an area often called Hardy country.The village...

Some time ago, we visited Sir Walter Raleigh's Sherborne castle in Dorset.  Nearby is the ancient and charming town of Sherborne. S...