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That's quite a restoration project on the house. It will be quite amazing to see how it looks when completed! Like the background you gave on the history of the place. That is a good thing you have the wheelchair you do now and not the old one in that room.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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That's quite a restoration project on the house. It will be quite amazing to see how it looks when completed!
I really want to go back, but I think it might end up being next year, as I don't think it will be done until August of this year and we're off on our cruises in September. After we get back, the weather might not be too favourable once we get into October.
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Like the background you gave on the history of the place. That is a good thing you have the wheelchair you do now and not the old one in that room.
I think you'd have felt every single jolt in that thing!
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We headed next into a room at the Vyne, which is hard to describe, as it had had so many uses. Another volunteer explained it started life as servants’ quarters, then became a greenhouse and an orangery, neither successfully, as it didn’t have enough light coming in. Eventually with one of the Chute family in charge of the house with 11 children, it became a playroom, which seemed a good use for it, given it’s 18 metres long (60 feet) and would be perfect for them to run around…
We then went into the study of one of the Chute family (I’m afraid I don’t remember the details now), who was an architect and did most of his design in here. The walls that you see in here are wooden and date from the Tudor era, the 15th century. The clock in here still keeps time and I can’t remember exactly how old it is, but I know it was over 230 years old. Pretty impressive!
Next we entered what I would call the dining room, but the volunteer told us it was called the print room, because of all the prints on the wall. This was all the rage in the Victorian era (late 19th century), but sadly when the National Trust took over running of the house in the 1950’s, the prints were very badly damaged. They took the decision to restore them to how it would have looked, which I think is the right decision. It’s certainly something I don’t remember coming across in our previous visits to National Trust properties.
We then headed into the staircase area, which would usually take you up to the first floor, but as you can see, it doesn’t at present with all the work going on here. In truth, this was one of the reasons I wanted to come here, as I knew I wouldn’t have to miss out on seeing the upstairs room. There were pictures around to help show you what it would look like and again, it’s definitely gone on the list of places we need to come back to when the work is finished….
While we were in here and I was taking photos, a volunteer came out and asked if I wanted the light levels improved, as she knew I couldn’t use flash. I told her I was fine and showed her the results of what I was taking and, like everyone else who I talk to about cameras, she was very impressed with mine. I like it and I’m glad I bought it.
We then made our way into the living room, and as you can see, this is pretty much laid out as I assume it usually would be…
The volunteer in here pointed out that one of the Chutes (again, the name fails me ), who was the mother of the 11 children, was very talented and had painted some of the portraits in here. It was quite a sad story though, as she explained that they spent so much time and money on the house, that they had little left for anything else. It meant that they didn’t have the money to put their girls into society to marry them off to a wealthy man and sadly none of the girls ever married and only some of the boys did. It was such a shame to hear that story.
We then passed through the dining room, not learning anything about it, as the volunteer here was chatting to a family of four. Yes, there were other people in the house by now, but even so, I’d think there were probably only about a dozen or so of us in here…
The final room we saw was, as you’d expect, the most stunning. It was the chapel. Now this was breath taking enough…
What a sad story about the family spending all they had on a house. Although if they hadn’t, you wouldn’t perhaps been touring it today.
That chapel is stunning!
No, neither can I, but imagine what an amazing childhood that would've been....
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The Vyne is really something else!! Can you imagine having a chapel as part of your dwelling?! Wow!!
I can imagine it, but only because so many stately homes over here do have one. We quite often see chapels in National Trust properties. I guess we get a bit blasé about it.
The Vyne is quite a place! All the rooms are amazing and so photogenic. I especially like the chapel, which is something with all the decorative and hand made stained glass designs.
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Like the background you gave on the history of the place. That is a good thing you have the wheelchair you do now and not the old one in that room. 
), who was the mother of the 11 children, was very talented and had painted some of the portraits in here. It was quite a sad story though, as she explained that they spent so much time and money on the house, that they had little left for anything else. It meant that they didn’t have the money to put their girls into society to marry them off to a wealthy man and sadly none of the girls ever married and only some of the boys did. It was such a shame to hear that story. 
All the rooms are amazing and so photogenic. I especially like the chapel, which is something with all the decorative and hand made stained glass designs.
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