 Sisters Hello everybody, Pipa Shirley here from Modeston Manor, and today we're bringing you another of our behind-the scenes dairies, recording what's going on while the House is closed to the public. The gardens effect open this week on Wednesday, which is very exciting but the House is actually closed now. And today we're in one of our more unusual spaces I think we'll say, this is one of our stories. The room itself is called the upper west attic, rydym ychydig i'ch gynhyrchu'r cwmwyllt yw'r gweithgawdd y maen nhw. A'r drws gwych yn fath o'r rwyf. Felly, rydych chi'n gweithio'r gwybod y rwyf, ychydig i'w cadw'r lledg. Rwy'n gryf doedd yna'r gwybod, ac mae ymchwil yma, ond ond y pethau yn yma yma yma. Mae'r gweithgawdd yma yma, rwy'n gweithgawdd yma, ond rwy'n gweithgawdd yma yma. Rwy'n gweithgawdd yma'r gweithgawdd a'r gweithgawdd. here particularly um objects that that were part of the historic furnishings and fittings and fabrics of the house so I'm just going to walk into the the joining space now and we're going to meet Matthew Waters our deputy steward again who you've seen in some of the other films that we've made hello Matthew you keep popping up in weird and wonderful places um so do you want to tell us a little bit about um what the objects are here that you look after so in this area we tend to have the slightly less precious objects for utilitarian things so on this side we have victorian colscutals food cloches um various sort of servants objects um on this side we have five buckets that would have been stationed around the house um we have the internal telephones that would have been used by the servants um and also call buttons that would have been used by the family to call the servants from around the house so this one has valets as an option ladies made as an option depending on what the family needed at the time and then moving over to one of our other um shelving units this one is full of door handles door knobs um architectural fittings so we have all these wonderful um historic door knobs that have been removed from the house doing various restorations or transformations that we've had um lots of different styles from different areas of the house all very well documented and recorded on our database so that we can keep track of where everything is oh thank you so much Matthew I must say I really love that shelf it reminds me a bit of a sweetie shop for some reason I'm not quite sure why yeah it's a real treat um and then just before we leave I'm just going to give you another treat which is just to see the view from this space because we're on top of the hill at wadston manor and so out of the windows here we're at the west end of the house we have the most extraordinary view so that rather elaborate bit of architecture there is the the top of the morning room the pinnacles on the morning room and then looking out beyond you just see the woods which surround us which are part of the grounds and then this fantastic view out to ashenden and then to oxfordshire so it really is a very special place and this is somewhere the public normally never see so it's lovely to be able to to give you a glimpse of it um on in these rather extraordinary circumstances