Miniatures at Hever Castle

As promised, some photos of the miniature collection at Hever Castle, it features work of  John Hodgson, you can read more here, unfortunately I can't find anything about it on the Hever Castle website, but I guess it is still there, can any of our British friends confirm this please. Idske, do you know? I am definitely visiting you if ever I go to England again, lucky you, to stay only 20 miles from Hever Castle!

Some of the photos has a horrible glare from the flash, it was pretty dark in there and everything is behind glass, enjoy!

The Georgian house.

The Victorian house.

And it's garden.

And some room boxes.

Have a great mini weekend all.
Elga

Hever Castle

Well, Josje just mentioned Hever Castle over on her blog A Beautiful World, seems a few of us were there at some stage or the other and I thought I would share my photos of it. We were there early in March 2006, looking at the photos sure brings back many happy memories, I really enjoyed my visit to Hever and would love to go again.

The castle with the draw bridge on the right, I just loved the topiary trees.

Me in front of the draw bridge and my purchases from the gift shop, this was our last day in England and I had to spend the remaining pounds ;-)

Once you are through the gate you find yourself in a courtyard with a Tudor facade. We weren't allowed to take any photos of the inside.

The kitchen, guest quarters, etc that was added by the American William Waldorf Astor in the early 1900's after he bought the castle in 1903.

Me in the lovely winter gardens, I loved the beauty of the bare branches against the green hedges and lawn, our lawn in South Africa dies in winter, not a pretty sight at all.

After you walk for seemingly miles through the gardens, you get to a man made lake, just beautiful, it was really cold that day, if you look carefully you can see the top layer of water is frozen in places.

There is also a wonderful miniatures collection at Hever, more about that in a next post.

Have a great day
Elga