Tyntesfield with Dan Cruickshank

In 2002 the National Trust bought a sprawling gothic pile near Bristol. Tyntesfield cost £25 million and it was rumored that Kylie Minogue considered snapping it up before the Trust, however, it opened to visitors in 2004. Here, Dan Cruickshank explores the rich history including the fortune made from guano (bird droppings) and the elaborate interiors. Only in 2011 was it restored to a state that allows it to be open every day of the week.

[@julieblackstock8650]

oh this is a glorious programme

[@wordnerd504]

I first went to Tyntesfield shortly after it was saved by the Trust. Our small group had to be ferried from a Wraxall market's parking lot in a bus. There were portions of the house roped off. Then I was to go back some years later. Changes were amazing. My favorite part of the house is the chapel. It is just gorgeous (and this from one of the unchurched!).

[@mossmonaco9061]

Yes, the chapel is beautiful. Not forgetting the orangery.

[@AnonyMous-zy4wu]

So glad National Trust bought if, for all of us. Wonderful film.

[@thibomeurkens2296]

Amazing! What a beautiful house! I’d love to visit it when I go on holiday to England!

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

You could spend a week quite easily, so compleat is the treasure collected over the generations.

[@ladyvalhalla7154]

Loved the story and attention to detail

[@starcrib]

How does an elderly Hierarc Lord Raxel leave an 1863 Victorian Gothic Mansion with no last will in testament ? Just so eccentric- I imagine that elderly old man living amongst all that family history...conjures up the" Fall of the House of Usher"....You know he probably couldn't stand noise volume of any kind. so strange indeed.

[@alkistis-irenewechsler1270]

Wraxall

[@simoncrawley7430]

Old Cruickers...one of the best.

[@1988Conor]

great programme

[@brv1848]

Oh, my god...i want to live in that house!

[@thibomeurkens2296]

Join the group 😂

[@glynwilliams1348]

I love visiting the house you can feel that it was a happy family house to live in I was very lucky to have met lord wraxall in 1999 even though he had a lot of money he was driving around in an old batterd car and he told me about his big huge house he was living in

[@marywimmer5018]

That’s lovely, what did he tell you about living there? Was he lonely in such a big home?

[@glynwilliams1348]

@@marywimmer5018 I think he was a bit lonely he only said he was living in one part of the house because it was so expensive to heat up and it was damp I remember him telling me he once got held hostage on his property locked in his car boot as he was filling up his car with petrol but they got away without anything, he did say he didn’t have anyone close to him to leave his belongings to, I wish I took his invitation to his house but I was only young then , to scared to go to someone’s house I hardly knew

[@lw3646]

​@Glyn Williams some of the people in the village remember him as a bit of a recluse but others said no he was actually quite active in social circles.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

​He carried out his parish duties such as paying the stipend for the local vicar as he was highly religious, naturally traditional and aristocratically private.

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

Dan always reminds me of that classroom skit I did when I was a kid back in the 1980s, where one of my straight-laced, rather shy classmates (who was actually a good sport, up for a laugh) would read a presentation to the class whilst sitting on a chair with their arms wrapped and hidden behind them. Meanwhile I'd crouch behind them hidden underneath their school blazer which was hung over the back of the chair, sticking my arms though it, gesticulating as my arms were THEIR arms. Dan's hands are EXACTLY like that. Who is operating them? Is it Dan, really?

[@monkeytennis8861]

The hours must have flown by

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

@@monkeytennis8861 15 minutes, more like but such larks can easily extend to a full hour, such satisfaction-- especially if you try to pick their nose or keep scratching their thigh going from 'jazz hands' to full-blown tics.

[@MicaRayan]

I wish I could see it!

[@nacht98]

impressive!

[@jb7287]

Really pretty amazing

[@oldfartuk]

love gothic ,, looks amazing

[@ronniealex5523]

Adore dan

[@nicolecrystal6765]

dan is the most beautiful thing in the whole show !! grrr

[@pamelagibbs3992]

I really want to visit this Gibbs home❤

[@joe-vl3nd]

Excellent video 25 million cheap

[@thinkjim]

Does anyone know where to get the rest of this?

[@lw3646]

Yes

[@lw3646]

It was uploaded on another platform about a year ago in full.

[@raymondmurphy2364]

A treasure trove of the past, and the woundfull memory of Victoria past and empire alas we must move on.

[@thephilosopherofculture4559]

Wonderful video, pity it is low-res.

[@MicaRayan]

3:16 Why did I get this 'paranormal atmosphere' vibes... it was only abandoned for about a year or so I suppose 😅... nonetheless, the nice gothic are something to behold for

[@Oakleaf700]

It does feel nicely eerie...It is local to where we live,. it has a lovely vibe, the ghosts are benign.

[@lw3646]

@@Oakleaf700 I think the majority of ghost stories connected to old castles, villages and pubs are dreamt up to help attract visitors.

[@seanmcguire7974]

Where's the whole doc at??

[@thibomeurkens2296]

I couldn’t find it.

[@lw3646]

There is a full version uploaded but not on KZbin.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

A virtual time capsule. Sounds like the family was kind of eccentric from the " get go". What a place I'd never heard of. One of these days this Yank will get across the Pond. After all my ancestors were British...Taylor's, Kiplings, Wardsells,etc.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Well worth a visit. The late Lord Wraxall was a truly charming man somewhat drowning in its history. One of the greatest unedited Victorian stately piles of England. Wraxall would happily talk to a cat or a king or even me, the paper boy.

[@MedievalRichard]

Next trip for my channel! MR

[@royperkins3851]

He literally was the shit ,it made the family fortunes!

[@SunnyJim33]

:( Blimey, you sound intelligent. Didn't you win a Darwin Award?

[@johnhetherington8830]

thank god that Minogue woman didn't get it

[@snarkyboots]

Guano is bat droppings.

[@hollywoodhaunts5895]

I thought Skid Row Sebastian Bachs hidden legal 1986 ballerina wife Lavina Kymille was interested.Both her+Kylie were close to INXS Michael Hutchens.

[@wingchun4767]

the people of China love tyntesfield house

[@lynbar08]

Wing Chun they want to steal it.

[@sophiemcintosh507]

It was built on the backs of Chinese indentured labour...

[@nicolecrystal6765]

i like how nobody in hell would ever have gotten it but the queen and how they gave it to themselves at 90 % off ! Its worth at least ten times as much probably twenty times

[@johnsilverton639]

You wouldn't complain if it had belonged to a brain dead premier league footballer

[@paulparsons4003]

Don't talk crap.

[@Odo55]

Such excess, what's the point of all that clutter, spooky gothic monstrosity.

[@kernowarty]

To think this house was built with bird shit.

[@gregorythoman8281]

Dreary and the music doesn't help.

[@CS-1988]

Then don't watch it, sad case

[@jscudderz]

That a single family could hoard so much wealth through colonialism and selling bird droppings to make explosives that would kill thousands is disgusting. The beauty of the manor contradicts the horrible nature of it's creation in a haunting way.

[@tomasburns6406]

They used it as fertiliser…

[@Odo55]

It's grotesque- their wealth acquired by unscrupulous means, that is and their nouveau riche gawdy decor

[@tandemcompound2]

why do all these Brit toffs drive Kraut luxury cars-- Mercs and BMWs. Didnt we win the wars?

[@Lemma01]

What a ghastly hole: of minimal historic value, except perhaps to showcase one (defunct) family, and the worst 'Victorian Values' - exploitation, privilege, and sanctimonious religiosity., built on bird droppings. When even the antiques dealer from Sotherby's can find no greater treasure than some utterly dull and dusty miniatures; it's definitely time to move on, Dan.

[@paulparsons4003]

Oh DO shut up, you dried up fart.

[@paulparsons4003]

You sound evil! @emma jones

[@krift1716]

What a twat you are Emma. Go live in some mindless soulless brutalist cement nothing. A little nothing that reflects your insides?

[@paulparsons4003]

You are nasty. Have you sought therapy?

[@Nostalg1a]

What a dumb comment, you probably love living in your decadent American suburb.