A Short History of Powis Castle. Adventures in the life of a Conservation Assistant at Hardwick Hall. After our trip to Woolsthorpe Hall me and my friends spent the rest of the afternoon at Belton Hall.

Discoveries from under floors and turf, stories of past lives, the ordinary and extraordinary. Dyrham the Biomass boiler and the thigh bone. Dyrham in South Gloucestershire is having a new boiler fitted and because there is so much potential archaeology in the area the NT is making sure that the pipeline trench from the boiler to the house is watched as it is being dug.

Continuing on from earlier posts about the conservation work we undertook on the Reception of an Embassy tapestry from Powis Castle here is the fourth in a series of bulletins we sent to the property. This bulletin dates from June 2014. All the new warps inserted across the long vertical cut which runs the full height of the tapestry.

400 years of growing our own. I know I have been away for a long time. Still all of us down the Horse end continue to be optimistic. We had our first carriage drive of the season last week and the troops are getting back into working mode. Lots of long-reining and sledging and some practise carriage rides. The horses seem happy to be back at work after the boredom and restrictions of winter.