Mentmore Towers

Again making the most of being well, I ventured to Ikea in Milton Keynes and the huge Asda or Walmart next door to it. I went the Scenic way there and back and pass Mentmore Towers. It sits way back from the road so apologies for the grainy picutre and cluttered foreground. (more info at the bottom if you're interested!)

Visited Lisa this afternoon for a catch up, didn't get home until nearly 7 as once the boys came in there was lots of chat and then just as I was going David arrived home from work so more chat :)

Bracing myself for tomorrow now, in some ways I want it out the way, I am dreading feeling poorly again and also being out of the treatment bubble, which in my head is keeping me cancer free. I know I have radiotherapy and hormone therapy to come but somehow Chemo seems to be the one than keeps you safe.......all in my head I know but whatever gets you through as they say!!

The description below is copied from good old Wikipedia and more can be found there on it's present state which doesn't make good reading. It does however thrive as a Golf Course and Country Club which are separate from the house, and there are 2 18 hole courses here.

Mentmore Towers is a 19th-century English country house in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. The house was designed by Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles called Jacobetha for the banker and collector of fine art Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, display case for his collection of fine art and as an assertion of status. The mansion has been described as one of the greatest houses of the Victorian era. In keeping with the contents intended to be displayed within, the interiors take their inspiration principally from the Italian Renaissance, although the house also contains drawing rooms and cabinets decorated in the gilded styles of late 18th-century France, Historically it was first known simply as 'Mentmore'. The design is closely based on that of Robert Smythson's Wollaton Hall. Mentmore Towers is a Grade I listed building, with its park and gardens listed Grade II.

Mentmore was the first of what was to become a virtual Rothschild enclave in the Vale of Aylesbury, as later, other members of the family built houses at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton, Waddesdon and Halton. Since 1846 Baron Mayer de Rothschild had been slowly buying land in the area.