Grange Park Opera

Big Fat Grange Book

At a time when other great houses were being demolished weekly, somehow our beloved Grange survived.

The house you see today begs many questions. This book answers them with 250 pictures.

Richard Osborne sews together a narrative bursting with magnificent people (a Lord Chancellor, the Prince Regent, Florence Nightingale), Piccadilly mansions, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the first photographs, splendid private yachts, the coming of the railways to Hampshire (Micheldever) and, of course, very attentive staff.

What was it like working in a house like that? On census night 1891 Lord Ashburton's great aunt aged 11 months was at The Grange alone with 23 servants plus 8 more in the stable buildings.

Become a time traveller and see The Grange...

...In early times...

...In happy times...

(Lord Ashburton's Great-Aunts)

...In sad times...

Title: The Grange, Hampshire; Author: Richard Osborne; Designer: Reuben Crossman
It will be with the printers in March and ready for the 2012 Festival

Contents
A fertile and pleasant place
Mr Henley's delicate mansion
The Grange transformed (the Drummond years)
The new power in the land (Alexander Baring, 1st Lord Ashburton arrives)
Crisis and consolidation
A baron and two conspicuous women
The revamp and two wars (draft title)
The Wallach years
The Barings return (draft title)
The opera arrives (draft title)

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