I loved these chimneys at Hodsock Priory so thought I would use them for the half &half challenge.
People have lived at Hodsock for over 2000 years, the house as it stands today was rebuilt in 1874. I found the following piece of information that quite amused me
“Colonel Henry Francis Mellish is Hodsock’s most notorious ancestor. His full length portrait hangs on the stairs in the Priory.
He gambled the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds in the early 1800s and had to sell his inheritance to pay his gambling debts.
In the set of the Prince Regent, he owned racehorses and won the St Leger at Doncaster 2 years running. However, his alleged final bet was whether a pat of butter would stick to the ceiling of the Blyth Hall dining room when he flicked it up with his knife.
He was so drunk when he fired it that it failed to reach the ceiling. He then had to organise a sale of the house, land and contents to pay off his debts and go to live a quiet life down the road with his sensible sister, here at Hodsock.”
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