Christmas at Lanhydrock House in Cornwall.

We visited there when we went to the Eden Project. Thank you for the reminder! I enjoyed it, although the gardens aren’t up to much. But like you, the servants quarters are much more familiar. I used to love making paper chains at Christmas!

Been there several times over the years. The garden in the height of summer is not to fussy and my girls loved it. Haven't been down there for years but I do want to revisit the Eden project and Heligan etc.

Interesting to see how the other half lived, be it upstairs or downstairs.......thanks for sharing your day out, best of luck with your attempt to recreate whichever!!!!!!!!

How lovely Chris,so glad you had a lovely day out.I too,love the servants,quarters and kitchens,as befits my station too ! ha ha. The Decorations are so pretty,and in my best Yorkshire Dialect ',there's nowt wrong wi Paper Chains '.Lol..
Thank you for a heartwarming blog and pictures :o) x

Many thanks to all of you for looking. I am glad that you enjoyed your step back in time.

On the large table in the main kitchen there were marzipan fruits, sugar mice, oranges pierced with cloves and pretend Christmas cakes and puddings.

A lot of people had gone to a lot of trouble to add all the little details that made it memorable and special.

Upstairs decorations are lovely, but downstairs looks more lived in... You might have thought that some of last year's from upstairs could have been spared for the servants though. Were the baked goods real?
Would love to visit sometime! Thank you for sharing.

Stera the oranges, marzipan sweets and sugar mice were real on the table but everything else we saw bread, pies, eggs and cakes etc were false!!!

What a beautiful place with wonderful decorations, thanks I enjoyed :)

Chris, it has been a joy to see Lanhydrock once more as it was a few good years since we were there! Really enjoyed the blog, thanks for sharing.

Fascinating photos, I think the working area was more interesting than the posh area :)

I shall definitely be down in the kitchen with you Chris. It all looked amazing. I agree with Hywel that the working area was far more interesting! I love marzipan sweets or anything with marzipan in it. Tell me ...did one accidently slip into your pocket ! Hahaa!

I think that Lanhdrock is one of the most interesting NT houses in the south west, mainly because of the servants quarters.
Rose, I love marzipan too but I did leave every sweet exactly where it was ( they might have been there for a while!! )
When I put marzipan on the Christmas cake I eat chunks of it as I go along, can't resist!!!

I do too Chris ! In fact I don't ice my cake so that I can just taste the marzipan ! Yum !!