 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm sitting at home at my kitchen table with my National Trust Passports in front of me. This is episode two of my National Trust Passports. I'm going to tell you about my second National Trust Passport. In the first video we talked about my first one. I went through every property in it, all 28 of them. It's interesting actually because it used to be able to get to 28 properties and now you have to get to 30. So, some way up says I've got certificates and each time you fill a passport up you get a certificate and it gets interesting after three because you have to write to the National Trust and tell them. So, you can see how passports evolve through the years. This is episode two, coming will be three, four and five. Six isn't complete and this one is my Get Offence passport. So, I won't do that one but I've just got it here so you can see the variety and the evolution of passports. So, my second National Trust Passport. Let's have a look where did I visit. The first one took us from 1989 up until 1996. So, here we are in the 90s. Now, the last property I visited was Colbury Woodland Garden. Now, the first one on that same holiday is Aberdure Ice Falls. Now, that is in South Wales. It's near Neath in South Wales. Neath is a fairly large town. This is quite a different property. It's a hydroelectric power station and I didn't really understand about what hydroelectric power station was back in 1996 but I was just fascinated by the waterfalls. They were pretty impressive and I did visit again a few years later. It's my delight. They had a model railway exhibition on. I've got three sisters, they weren't best pleased because they said we don't want to do any more train stuff. But, meh, there was a more railway exhibition there. So, Aberdure Ice Falls is well worth a visit. You can also visit Neath Abbey if you're in the area. Next property is Blickling Hall. So, Blickling Hall is a lovely big house in Norfolk. It's got some very nice formal gardens out the back and out the front actually. I don't remember too much but I just remember being there. Impressive property, really. It had some interesting, simply it had some giant glasses, some sculptures in the grounds and however that was just an exhibition that was there once where they were always there. I don't know. I've not been back to Blickling Hall since. I have been to Norfolk since I was hung around visiting Blickling Hall. So, if anyone knows, are there giant glasses to Blickling Hall? Do comment and tell me. I'd love to hear from you. Next property, Felbrick Hall. Also in Norfolk. Visited on the same holiday. Felbrick Hall, I remember doing a big estate walk there and I remember they had, there was a fair on and there was a Lancaster bobbin was flying around so although not actually the National Trust, that is my main memory from there. And then on the way back from that holiday, we visited Anglesey Abbey. So, I talked a bit in the last one about Abbey's that have become National Trust properties. We mentioned Buckland Abbey in Devon and Lakehawk Abbey in Wiltshire so this is Anglesey Abbey. I don't remember too much. I don't remember walking around the grounds and walking up to a big white weather warded water mill which is, you know, the typical sort of water mill you find in East Anglia. So that's Anglesey Abbey. Like I was saying in the last video, I should go back to all of these again. Some might have done them as adventures at but not that many of them but it'd be great if I could just go round the wall again and make a video at every single one. You know, cos they're all really nice places and also different. That's, it's a bit like with miniature railways. I visit every miniature railway cos each miniature railways different, each National Trust which is different. So next one I'm bringing on to the National Trust shop at Ashridge. Now this wasn't actually my first visit. My first visit was on a school visit so we went to Ashridge with the school and I remember going there and I remember walking around, I could see a bridge in the distance. I just remember saying to the teacher, please can we go over that bridge? Please can we go a bit further, go over the bridge? And it was, no, no, we're doing this. So I was a bit disappointed but went back again with my family. Also the other thing that was much more exciting was we went out of the Bridgewater Monument. If you ever get a train on the West Coast Mainline out of London, just as you're coming to Trin, if you look out on your left up at the children's you'll just catch a glimpse of the Bridgewater Monument and from the Bridgewater Monument you get a good view of the West Coast Mainline. Next one is, so is Nightshade Hall which is down in Devon. It's a big Victorian house. It's got lovely grounds. I remember going on a very hot day. We've been to Westford Hall on holiday for a week and we went on our way back so I just remember walking around the grounds in the hot weather really at Nightshade Hall. Next one is Stourhead. Now that was the next year and that was actually, we liked it so much at Westford Hall in North Devon that we went back again the next May and we visited Stourhead on the way and Stourhead is, it's brilliant, you've got a bigger state with lots of temples around the lake. You can do a lovely walk. There was an amazing grotto. A bit like I said with Stowe, probably one Henry's Adventures video wouldn't be enough. I'd have to do a few. Interestingly, you're Stourhead. It's the only one as far as I'm aware that has two passports. There's another one from the house. On a later holiday we did the house. So really you do need two visits to go there. So the first visit we did just to grounds. The second visit I'll get on to. It might be the next passport as a day it rained and went to the house. So I'll get on to that later on. Then next one is in London. This must be the first National Trust property I went to in Greater London. It's called Ham House. It's in Richmond. It's a lovely big house out the back. It's so immaculate like a Dole's house. And it's got some lovely formal gardens out the back. It's not a huge estate as you might imagine. It is in suburban London, but it's like I say with all of them, they are all worth a visit. The next one is Paris Castle, home of Clive of India. It is possibly one of the most impressive looking properties. So you've got the castle up on the hill and the gardens and galleries going down. It's just amazing really. It's possibly one of the most impressive National Trust properties I've been to. Clive of India, who lived there, are the Britannia steam locomotive named after him. The number of it has slipped out of my head, but it's coming on screen now. So that is the Britannia locomotive Clive of India named after the gentleman who lived at Paris Castle. From one very famous gentleman to another, we go to Chartwell, home of Winston Churchill. Funny enough, another steam locomotive was named after Winston Churchill, a bullet Pacific number 34051 Winston Churchill, which is now in the National Rail Museum, the locomotive called Winston Churchill's Funeral Train. So Chartwell, I remember going to quite distinctly, it's a fascinating property, really, you can see into the life of Winston Churchill. I remember there being some ponds with some big koi carp and asking, I can just imagine Winston sitting there feeding his fish. And he used to paint as well, so he used to paint places within his grounds. So Chartwell, Downing Kent, fascinating property, do go and visit. Now, staying downing Kent, the next few couple of hours on that holiday, Stoneacre. Stoneacre is an interesting one, quite a small one. From what I remember, it was a Tudor house with a guard, not a huge place. It was quite fascinating now. Some of the smaller properties don't have a stamp. As you can see, it's not the official stamp. Some don't have an official stamp, but I just say to them, I say, if they say we don't have the square stamp, I say, look, if you've just got something in the desk, just a stamp. If it just says Stoneacre, or way of it, I'm happy. I just want something in it. Now, on that holiday, we did also visit a property called Owlitz, which unfortunately had nothing, so there's no stamp for Owlitz, so that's not in there. We wanted to go to one called St John's Jerusalem. That wasn't open, I've not yet had a chance to go there, but it's meant to be impressive. On the way back, we went to Emmitt's Garden. This was the time of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, talking of one pandemic, talking of another pandemic, one that didn't affect humans directly, foot-and-mouth affected animals. The National Trust lost a lot of money, the YHA lost a lot of money, it was a pretty bad time. That day, we attempted to go to item Moe, it was closed. We attempted to go to Noel, it was closed. We ended up at Emmitt's Garden. Bear in mind, now it's before the internet, so we didn't have the internet to just look up now. We probably wouldn't be turning up at these properties and not being able to get in, because we'd just simply look up on the internet. But in 2001, we didn't have the internet, so we went to Emmitt's Garden. I don't remember there being a house there, whether there isn't, it's not open to the public. I'm not entirely sure, but it's a lovely garden, quite wooded in some respects. There are some nice little ponds. I always like water gardens, so yeah, very interesting place. The next one is Mottisfon Abbey. Now that is down in Hampshire. I remember going there on the way to a holiday down at the Isle of Portland, fascinating property. I remember, one thing I'd remember was the river which flows through the site. I can't think of the name, but the name is on screen now, the river that flows through Mottisfon Abbey. But there was a tributary of that river that started and finished weaving the ground, so actually walked the whole of the river. I remember there was really big wild fish, it was a fascinating property. And there was a room of tromploids, which I've heard of tromploids, but it's the first time I've ever seen them, so I was really quite fascinated by that. The next property is Peckworth. Now Peckworth is down in Sussex. The house is a bit like an art gallery really. There's just so many fascinating paintings. We didn't do the wider estate walk, we did just the pleasure grounds. Now I remember, as we did the pleasure grounds, I noticed a tunnel under the pleasure grounds. Now I was naturally fascinated by it. I said no, no, we're not supposed to go there. Anyway, when we got to near the end of the gardens, we were playing hide and seek. I thought right now's my chance. I ran across the gardens. I got down into the tunnel and I walked all the way through it and back. And then ran back across the pleasure grounds and hid and it had taken quite a while to find me, but I got to see the tunnel. So the moral of the story is if I see a tunnel, I can't just really walk past it without having a look. I've got a bit of a nose here. Next property, interesting one, it's Wakehurst Place. Again, it's not got an official stamp. It's a bit of a funny one. Because it's owned by the National Trust, but it's actually managed by, I think it's the Botanical Gardens people. I might be wrong on that one. I don't think it's RHS or Horse Culture Society, but it's managed by somebody else by its own by the National Trust. It was just a very big fascinating gardens. I remember exploring it. I remember it did rain at one point. Not that that's really that relevant, but I should remember it all happened to get under a tree. Next one is Chedworth Roman Villa in the Cotswell. This is quite a different one. It's not your big, stately home. I suppose it's a bit like a stately home, but it's much earlier periods. Chedworth Roman Villa, the ruins of the Roman Villa in the Cotswell. Again, well worth visiting. Again, it's not really relevant to Chedworth Roman Villa, but one memory of it. It was the first place I ever had a Kendall mink cake. I was buying it in the shop, not really knowing what it was. I was like, oh, this is really nice. Probably every time I've gone to a National Trust since then. National Trust shop since then. I've always bought a Kendall mink cake, so that's where it started. Now I'm talking about Stourhead. This stamp is Stourhead House. So this was the day we were on our way to the hot end of West Country. It was raining quite hard, but we stopped and we went round the house of Stourhead. So as far as I'm aware, Stourhead is the only property that has two stamps. If anyone knows, if you know that there's another property that has two stamps, do please comment and tell me. I'd love to know. But as far as I'm aware, one thing I'll say as well, some people cheat. Now they get the stamp every time they go somewhere. It's not how it works. You get it once on your first visit. So the idea is each stamp is a new visit. Hence why I said in the last video I didn't get a new 1996, no, 1997, 2016 and the following after 2020. So yeah, you get a stamp the first time. You're not supposed to keep getting a stamp because when you get a certificate saying you've been to 28 properties, you haven't. Stourhead's a bit different because it's two properties within one, but yeah, you're not supposed to get a stamp each time. Now we move on to a greater London one, Osterley Park. Lovely place, but very close to Heathrow Airport, but don't let the aeroplane noise spoil it for you. It's a lovely estate. When you actually walk around the estate, you really wouldn't know. You're in the middle of a densely populated part of west London and it still has that lovely rural feeling to it. Here we have two more in London. We have Two Willow Road. A Two Willow Road is quite a fascinating property. It's up on Hampstead Heath. It was the home of the architect Erno Goldfinger. It's a terrace of three. Now he had the big one in the middle and there's one each side. It's a fascinating art deco house. I really enjoyed looking around it. It's like no other. On the same day, this is a good little outing you can do. Go to one, go to Two Willow Road because just up the road in Hampstead, less than a mile away, it's Fenton House. Fenton House have been to again more recently and there's a link on screen now of me exploring the gardens at Fenton House. It's a fascinating property. It's basically a miniature stately home. It's got some lovely gardens out the back. Get on the train, go on the northern line up to Hampstead, or get on the lower ground to Hampstead Heath and go and visit these. You can go for a big wide walk up onto Hampstead Heath, maybe get to Parliament Hill, see the views over London. If you really want to do a lot, go to Kenwood House which is English Heritage. Which English Heritage did these passports? I could probably fill a couple of them up as well. Now this one is a rather sad story since I went. It's Clamden Park. Unfortunately, Clamden Park has since burnt down. I believe there is some restoration taking place but at least I did go before the fight. It was a real shame. The gardens wouldn't have changed but the house unfortunately now is just the shell. I think that's one of the saddest things probably to have happened to the National Trust. I've not been there but I know Upark House. That did burn down and it was restored. So let's hope similar thing happens for Clamden. The one that goes upar can get upar to stamp it. The next one I'm staying in Surrey is that June Wharf. That's in Guildford on the Riverway Navigation so I'm only going for a boat ride there. I remember there was a railway ride up over the site so trains on the line from Guildford over to Effingham Junctions. There were only class 455s all day. That was the train she saw but I remember being quite excited to see a few trains there. So yeah, that June Wharf in Guildford is worth a visit. Now where's our next one? Melford Hall. That's in Suffolk in the village of Long Melford. I don't remember too much but it was a smaller property. We weren't there all day. We went there and had a look around the house, had a look around the gardens. I remember there being a dummy window as in there was to keep the symmetry of the house. I remember noticing that some of the windows weren't actual windows. They were just dummy windows on the outside and they were just a wall painted to look like a window. Then the next one was Lavinham Guildhall. It's a famous Guildhall completely Tudor in the historic town of Lavinham in Suffolk. So this is another little day out. You can do two in one day. Then staying in East Angliau, all gone on the same holiday. Sutton Hoo. Sutton Hoo is quite well known. It's where a Viking longboat was found. Fascinating place to go for a walk. I remember going to Sutton Hoo quite distinctly. Then the next one is, I don't remember too much about it. It's called the Elizabethan House Museum. It's in Grey Yarm. I wouldn't like to say, well no, it's obvious which year it's Elizabethan of course. So it's Elizabethan House in Grey Yarm, a town house. No gardens or anything, but still interesting to visit perhaps if you're in Grey Yarm and it's raining. Go and visit it. Then we've got one more from the same holiday in East Angliau, a horsey wind pump. I remember being like, oh windmill. I was told no, it's not a windmill, it's a wind pump. So it looks like a windmill to look at, but it's a wind pump. Water rather than grind corn. And then I'll find the one in this property. It's another interesting one that's not, it's National Trust. It's managed by English Heritage, it's Hale's Abbey. So it's ruined Abbey in Gloucestershire. And it's become much easier to visit because the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway has reopened Hale's Abbey hopes that perhaps we should go there at some point in the future. Maybe we'll go by train on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway. That's my second passport. One and two look the same. The third one is a bit different, but I'll talk about this one in the next video. So I hope you enjoyed that little story. My memories from when I was a child visiting National Trust places. Thank you very much for watching. Do look out for the third video. Do go and visit these National Trust places. They're all so different and so exciting to visit. So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. Thank you very much. Goodbye.