We were in Liverpool during the weekend, trying to finish clearing out my father's house. Despite the fact that we should have been working, I made us visit Sudley House, which is a couple of miles from my father's place.
Sudley was gifted to the City of Liverpool when the last member of the Holt family died in 1946. It's now a museum. However, there is a family story, repeated to me by my father, that we were related to the Holts and that my father, as a young boy, was taken up to Sudley to be presented to "the old man".
Except that "the old man" would have to be Joseph Holt, who died in 1896. So that doesn't work, but the story may have been about my grandfather, although that doesn't work either because he wasn't born until 1905. And my father's memory could be flaky, so he could have been mistaken.
Whatever, the point of the story is that we were something to do with those at the big house. So I took the wife to see our family seat.
The museum isn't anything to write home about, although it does hold a couple of original works by J M W Turner. Upstairs, there is an exhibition space which is currently hosting a display of architectural photography by Bedford Lemere & Co, which is worth seeing if you can get there before the end of April.
The image above is of the small cupola over the main entrance hall. Below is an exterior shot taken from the drive and looking at the north side of the house. I had my Alpha 77 with 50mm prime fitted, so I couldn't get a shot of the whole facade.
I've a couple more images that are worth posting, which I'll do over the next few days.
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