{"id":444,"date":"2012-01-01T12:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T13:02:43","slug":"burton-constable-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/burton-constable-hall\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Constable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0papers have announced the death of John Chichester-Constable, owner of Burton Constable. I first went there in 1986, when\u00a0York Castle Museum was asked to lend some toys for a film being made there. As Keeper of Costume (and dolls), I drove out there with the toys and stayed to watch over them. The\u00a0hall door opened to a scene straight out of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: grand rooms so cold you could see your breath, in spite of\u00a0log fires stoked by an elderly retainer, and a general sense of impending decay. Chichester-Constable’s great achievement was to preserve this anachronistic house and its treasures, which included\u00a0a whale skeleton mentioned in Moby Dick, and a fine collection of family portraits. He kindly allowed me to use a painting of three Clifford children, c1810, on the cover of my book Children’s Clothes Since 1750. Let us hope that his efforts have secured Burton Constable for future generations.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0papers have announced the death of John Chichester-Constable, owner of Burton Constable. I first went there in 1986, when\u00a0York Castle Museum was asked to lend some toys for a film being made there. As Keeper of Costume (and dolls), I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}