This Manor isn't so far from High Wycombe where I got via train in windy day. In the 19th century, it was the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. Today, it is owned by the National Trust. I need to thanks to National Trust very much. Wonderful staff who talk about story of the places. Sometimes they take photo for me as well. And very important. I know what I need to see and where I need to go to see some interesting things. THANKS FOR THAT.
The house which I visited is with two tales, Hughenden Manor has a rich history. On one hand
it was the Victorian home to Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria's
favourite Prime Minister. On the other, it was the base for a secret
map-making organization during the Second World War.
A house with two tales, Hughenden Manor has a rich history. On one hand
it was the Victorian home to Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria's
favourite Prime Minister. On the other, it was the base for a secret
map-making organisation during the Second World War.
[ https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hughenden]
I was walking via Hughenden Park from High Wycombe
Hughenden was purchased by Benjamin Disraeli as his country home in 1848
and was cherished by himself and his wife Mary Anne. Securing the Manor
was vital to the realisation of his political ambitions and his
personal aspirations and it provided the setting for political drama,
royal visits and a personal love story.
A large collection of portraits of Disraeli's family, friends and
political allies; a bronze of Victoria by Boehm, presented by the Queen
to Disraeli when he left office in 1880; John Brown, by Landseer; signed
photographs of statesmen (including Bismarck) at the Berlin Congress of
1878; Victorian Gothic furniture; and the working library of the
Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), slightly
depleted by twentieth-century sale, including within it a substantial
remnant of the bibliomaniac library of his father, best-selling author
Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1846). 1656 titles, including roughly 1000
nineteenth-century British books and over 500 earlier books.
Presentation copies from, among others, Queen Victoria and Matthew
Arnold. Some material relating to the Congress of Berlin, 1878,
Anglo-Jewry, the proclamation of Victoria as Empress of India.
Benjamin Disraeli
Novelist and statesman, social outsider turned aristocrat; Britain’s
first Jewish Prime Minister reflects the vibrancy and complexity of
nineteenth century politics.
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| Disraeli's first floor study |
A secret wartime past is revealed in our Second World War rooms in the
cellars, with interactive exhibits and eye-witness accounts. Experience
the immersive wartime displays in our ice house bunker and find out why
Hughenden was high on Hitler's hit list.
During the Second World War, Hughenden Manor was used as a secret intelligence base code-named "Hillside". The UK Air Ministry staff at the manor analysed aerial photography of Germany and created maps for bombing missions, including the famous "Dambusters" raid
ice house bunker
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