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Articles from January 2010

Waddesdon Manor – A National Trust property

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild built Waddesdon Manor  between 1874 to 1889. He used Waddesdon to entertain his guests and display his vast 18th-century French decorative art collection. Typical were the Savonnerie carpets and Sèvres porcelain which rank, in relevance and importance with those kept in the Louvre in Paris and the Royal and Wallace Collections in [...]

The Five Arrows Hotel Waddesdon

January 1st, 2010 · No Comments

This Victorian Grade II listed property stands at the gates of Waddesdon Manor, home to the Rothschild art collection and owned by the National Trust. Five Arrows was built to accommodate the various artisans during the construction of Waddesdon in the late 1880s and it derives its name from the Rothschild family emblem.
Winner of Tourism [...]