Newhaven Court
Helen Murray
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
'This is the house by Cromer town …' Built in 1884 as the grand summer home for the well-connected Locker-Lampson family, the red -brick, turreted mansion Newhaven Court once sat high on a windswept hill above Cromer. Before its dramatic destruction in flames nearly eighty years later, the house played host to such eminent figures as Sir Winston Churchill, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Ernest Shackleton, illustrator Kate Greenaway and French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen. It was a home where poets rubbed shoulders with politicians and aristocracy with artists and authors. There was dance, dining and song – but also family tragedy and hidden love. Follow the true story of Newhaven Court and its colourful inhabitants from the decadent years of the late nineteenth century and the elegant Edwardian era, through the tragedy of the First World War and terrible conflict of the Second to the roaring twenties and the uncertain post-war age.
Kundenbewertungen
lord tennyson, sir ernest shackleton, sir robert scott, edwardian norfolk, norfolk museums, Love Tragedy Heroism and Intrigue, rasputin newhaven, cromer town, Tragedy, locker-lampson family, past search prize, norwich, norwich writers circle, newhaven house, the cooper prize, winston churchill, ww1 norfolk, Love, suzanne lenglen, thorpe history group, tsar of russia newhaven, world war one norfolk, comer, olga sinclair prize, Heroism and Intrigue, norfolk museums services, locker-lampson, NMAS, katie greenaway, 1920s norfolk|19th century norfolk, newhaven court