Florence Nightingale's Personal Sanctuary
Snaps from home - Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
"God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good
for him alone without reputation."
- Florence Nightingale
Hello friends, how are you?
I’m continuing to milk my National Trust membership for all it’s worth and honestly, for £9 a month for a couple’s card we visit somewhere new or known most weeks.
Last month my friends and I explored into Buckinghamshire, to Claydon House. Claydon has been the ancestral home of the Verney family since 1620 where they still live in the red brick south-wing.
We were unaware beforehand that this was the home of Florence Nightingale’s family, Florence herself was in residence 3 months of the year. If you’d like to know more about the incredible fascinating life, accomplishments and legacy of Florence please click the underlined link above.
Lo! in that house of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But, to the house! Let’s see the rooms she lived in, the balcony she waved to the staff from when she was unwell, and the little church she wanted to be able to see from her bedroom window.
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