title Life Below Stairs, Ickworth House, Horringer, Suffolk - 28th January 2018 intro We head over to Ickworth for another wander around. This time, the extensive basement "visiting servants quarters" are all open for exploration. imgp9483 Harry and Isobel on a muddy path imgp9485 National Trust members like stickers imgp9486 The boys find a climbey tree imgp9491 Harry and his hat imgp9495 Fred and an up-turned tree stump imgp9496 Winter trees imgp9498 Mossy logs imgp9501 On a small bridge in the woods imgp9502 There are some rather impressive tree carvings imgp9506 Isobel and Fred imgp9513 A carving that looks like J. S. Bach imgp9517 The Ickworth rotunda imgp9519 We head off below stairs imgp9520 On the steps to the basement imgp9521 A model of the electricity system, circa 1909 imgp9523 Passages below stairs imgp9524 An Edwardian toilet imgp9525 Ickworth's modern, but no less epic, heating system imgp9527 Fred tests a sink out imgp9530 An underground water tank imgp9534 Fred tries some early 20th century wood tools imgp9537 Harry's got a ruler imgp9538 Fred and a water pump imgp9540 In the kitchen imgp9543 Fred points the way imgp9544 The boys investigate 1920s kitchen moulds imgp9547 A kitchen window imgp9549 Fred plays with scales imgp9551 The Ickworth House kitchen imgp9552 Isobel's on an old phone, as Harry looks up imgp9555 Fred with an old Remington typewriter imgp9557 Fred's on the phone imgp9558 Isobel does a spot of knitting imgp9559 The head servant's quarters imgp9561 The boys have fun with some old sugar tongs imgp9567 Harry winds something up imgp9568 The visiting servants' dining/recreation room imgp9569 Harry plays with a board game imgp9571 Isobel roams around imgp9572 The boys play an early Bagatelle imgp9575 Fred wins (again) imgp9578 Cards and dominoes imgp9579 Fred plays the piano imgp9581 One of many cellars beneath Ickworth House imgp9583 In the many corridors of Ickworth imgp9584 A 1920s bike leans on a wall imgp9586 The boys are back at the tool table imgp9587 imgp9589 In the orangery café imgp9590 Outside on the patio imgp9591 Isobel sits outside the orangery imgp9592 A bite to eat outside the orangery imgp9596 You wouldn't really know it was January imgp9600 Harry looks around imgp9603 Isobel and Fred imgp9605 Harry legs it imgp9616 The boys do pretend bull-fighting imgp9619 Harry and Fred in a tree imgp9626 The south wing is now a hotel imgp9627 The cliché Rotunda photo imgp9630 Sheep on the meadow imgp9632 A tree stump in the stumpery imgp9643 We walk around the grounds imgp9646 Down by the pond again, except less frozen imgp9651 More stickers imgp9653 Fred swings imgp9661 Harry checks a tree-stump out imgp9662 Fred hides in a tree stump imgp9666 Fred explores a fallen tree imgp9670 Harry and Fred on a massive fallen-down tree stump imgp9682 Fred and Harry imgp9687 Back to the car park