Hardwick Hall. Documentary on the great Derbyshire house with Nick Rowling 1989.

[@chrishall62]

Understated documentary, just the presenter walking around the house and telling us about it. No silly arty slo-mo shots or historical "re-enactments" that modern documentaries are infested with. For those complaining about the quality of the picture, it was made 34 years ago and likely copied from an old VHS tape. Magnificent house, have been there twice.

[@diannehardwick950]

Very worth a visit. The older original hall stands nearby and, although ruined has plenty left to explore.

[@terencebennison6275]

A magnificent house yes, but a cold one to move into when you are 70 years of age ( or thereabouts) as Bess was when she moved in. I would hazard a guess that Bess hardly stirred from her inner rooms where she slept and kept her books and deeds in those iron bound chests, particularly in the winter months. This was the only major building that Bess herself had built ( chatsworth bring a collaboration with her second husband Cavendish) We might wonder why Bess bothered to build at her age, my own opinion is that she wanted to leave a building as an epitaph to her life hence the abundance of her initials on the rooftop. She is saying to posterity " I designed and built this house" it's her tombstone.

[@EXPERIENCEDSHADOW]

Went to Hardwick on Saturday absolutely lovely building, but the old hall definitely looks different 31 years later!

[@irenejohnston6802]

Love Hardwick Hall 'more glass than wall'. Visited 1970s

[@annekalunn8567]

I’m from chatsworth and hardwick house

[@jannythomas3104]

Bess was a survivor, and had made good marriages and inherited money and land. A lady of that period with her power was rare and to be admired.

[@orion8835]

And to think this eventually became the dower house for the Cavendish family the Dukes of Devonshire. It’s is no longer used for that. Incredible property scary huge and full of Elizabethan extreme wealthy architecture in England.

[@lemorab1]

In her memoir, "Wait For Me!" Deborah Mitford, 11th Duchess of Devonshire, describes Hardwick while 9th Dowager Duchess Evelyn lived there in the 1940's and early 1950's. Deborah and Andrew's (11th Duke) 2 children, Peregrine and Emma, were given poster paints by Granny Evie and told to run around and "brighten up" the tapestries. Deborah claimed that as of the early 2010's, you could still see traces of the children's art work on them.

[@Drobium77]

Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall

[@morkusmorkus6040]

*more window than wall

[@elizamccroskey1708]

When I first saw this this title I chanted “Hardwick Hall more glass than wall!” I would love to live in a place where there was more glass than wall, now that I live in a kind climate off in the middle of the woods.

[@roychristopherson5625]

For some reason Bess struck me when I started watching this old, yet detailed documentary. There seems to be a connection between my Jones X Gr Uncles and this Hall. Leads me to Roger Kynaston d.1517 listed in my 1800's family Bios ties to Hardwick Hall. Finding so many historical Great Grandparents that I cannot stay on track with finishing book; Barbadoes Jones Decoded. Keep researching.

[@Ebb5845]

Film quality is poor, but Hardwick Hall was a great visit.

[@ferdinandforzinetti5883]

Well, I’m all for people recovering things like this from 30-year-old VHS tapes.

[@Patrick3183]

Opening music is also played in tv series “Elizabeth R”

[@Hypnobunny1]

My mum and her siblings was evacuated there during the war

[@maguffintop2596]

Sad circumstance but what an adventure! I can’t fathom living in a house like that under any circumstance. I read somewhere at the High Germans of the Reich didn’t want to destroy the great houses because they plant on living in them.

[@mickymantle3233]

Excellent !

[@roybeattie296]

Don't thank Rowling does Hardwick Hall justice ,but then he probably reads the Guardian

[@3lightsteps]

Thought the same thing.

[@lporquai9048]

Silly comment...

[@SARHistories]

Going here in summer! It looks fantastic!

[@SARHistories]

Beautiful place that is on my to do list.

[@MrSwifts31]

Bess's Daughter Lady Elizabeth Cavendish,married Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox(brother of Mary,Queen of Scots husband Lord Darnley) and so The First Earl's and Elizabeth's Daughter was a first cousin to the (later)King James the 1st.Bess had great expectations that if her granddaughter ( Arabella Stuart)married James First,the granddaughter would be a Queen Sadly it came to nought.James married Anne of Denmark.Elizabeth married William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset,in 1610(in a secret marriage)being close to the King she had not received his permission,.She was sent to the Tower by King James,and died insane in 1615.Bess obviously had delusions of grandeur.She died aged 1607/1608 aged 80. This sort of explains why Bess built Hardwick on such a grand scale.

[@joanwallis2745]

It has a lovely garden.

[@starfox1]

love the music wiv the krumhorns

[@charliebrown5755]

Wouldn't it be nice if it was in focus

[@richardmckrell4899]

Always has his hand in pocket and dressed in white.

[@RoseSharon7777]

I'm thinking her next boyfriend should run like crazy!!

[@victoriamilonas1942]

For some reason, that I've not yet sussed out, the symmetry of this building is NOT pleasing. It feels oddly upside down & the plantation style "porch" is the wrong scale. Makes me ineasy.

[@allandavis8201]

What to some in the modern era is unpleasing symmetry and “oddly upside down” was the height of cutting edge architecture in the 1500s and beyond, and to say the entrance is a “plantation style porch” is totally wrong, in fact you should be saying porches on plantation houses are Elizabethan in style, after all the Elizabethan period and style was long before any plantation homes anywhere were built. Why not just say “I don’t like it” that’s a fairer way to describe what you think, personally I have never seen a stately home that is unpleasing to my eye, but everyone has their own taste. Sorry,don’t mean to offend, it’s just my opinion.

[@Paulchen7223]

Why Video not from Germany😞

[@a-project-96]

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[@pierrejourdan4819]

C'est bizarre ! Il y a plus de fenêtres que de murs. Typiquement anglais...i suppose.

[@davitkistashvili7013]

quality is very bed

[@tatyanalvova5559]

don't keep hands in the pockets! looks disgusting!

[@OUigot]

Wait a minute? Feminists tell us all women were oppressed in history, how could she own this house if she was oppressed?

[@mikejames4540]

Bess took the only career open to her: marriage. She married into more and more money. So, she was repressed by the societal norms of the time as she would not have been able to do any of this without having been married. The same would not have been the case for a man of the time.

[@OUigot]

@@mikejames4540 - Ah? So, because men built everything with their blood, sweet, and tears, and money, while women built nothing, men were expected to hand everything over to women (according to today's feminist standards). Men not handing over their hard work to women caused women to be oppressed (according to today's feminist standards)? Therefore, for women to own what women contributed absolutely nothing towards building they had to be like the modern day gold-digger. Thanks for pointing that out...Mike, or should I say Michelle?

[@mikejames4540]

@@OUigot I’m not quite sure what argument you are trying to make here. I won’t get into a protracted discussion, nor insults and bitterness, but leave this with one last point. To repress approximately fifty percent of the population means that you reduce the intellectual potential of the population by a similar amount. That can’t be an advantage to anyone.

[@Cheeseatingjunglista]

@@OUigot Such bitterness. I, nor anyone else, cant possibly know what sort of event has clouded your judgement so much, but you're not applying thought, just rage. Its not healthy mate, try to calm down

[@OUigot]

@@Cheeseatingjunglista - Lol! Nice try, it didn't work...have a great day!

[@gardenglory6624]

sadly interesting , wealth of knowledge but REALLY BORING.

[@Firode9856]

Very fuzzy on my Airpad ,but looked like ready to be turned into a gloomy spacious prison !

[@mikemorris7247]

Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall.

[@morkusmorkus6040]

*more window than wall

[@elizamccroskey1708]

@@morkusmorkus6040you keep saying that, and I guess you are not wrong, but most of us know it as “glass”, and it trips off the tongue better 😊