 Hello, thank you for joining me. This is the third of my lockdown videos The first one was about train spotting. The second one was about track bashing now This one is nothing to do with railways or trains at all It's to do with one of my other interests because those of you who watch my videos will know although we do quite a lot of train Stuff we also you know go to historic sites now one of the places we quite often go to a national trust properties So I'm going to tell you today a bit about my way of visiting national trust places So you're quite often see you know, I go to national trust places I usually make a video in the gardens because it could be you know It's not so easy say to make one walking around a house without kind of disturbing everyone else I tend to make them in the gardens occasionally We have been into some of the houses so have a look for my out from my national trust videos And once we get our lockdown that'd be quite a lot more But the one thing I wanted to show you is something else that hasn't really featured in my videos But it's one of my favorite things about the national trust So we'll start this is the national trust handbook. It has every property every bit of countryside and You know, it's very useful book. It tells you the year that national trust acquired the site It tells you a few things about them So it's the all you need to know guide to visit in national trust places So that's the guide, but when it comes to going to them most national trust places have their own stamp And now I'm going to talk to you about passports not passports to travel around the world But national trust passports. So here's mine. This is my current one. I've had quite a few So what happens is when you go to a national trust place that you haven't been to before when you go for the first time You get your passport stamps. I'm just going to open it randomly And well this one that I haven't been to too many my first one was Rainham Hall in East London So I went to Rainham Hall. I got my passport stamped So what you do is you go through and you you fill it up and you can get my ones blue You can get pink one. That's my girlfriends But I've done this all my life. So this is my first national trust passport So I'm going to show you the first property I went to I don't know how well you can see that But it was Arlington Court in 1989 and what it used to be was that they have a stamp and that effectively frank it by Posting the properties stamp what I've What they did was the stamps evolved and the stamps originally were quite nice pictures of animals and stuff But as they evolved they became it came a bit weird I had like a stamp of Giants causeway when I went to Goddard's house in York And I'm not sure if those two actually did get mixed up, but that kind of thing So what I tend to do is I don't actually have the stamps anymore I've adopted my own way and I just stamped the place. I've been in the middle But it's a bit like train spotting. You can do it your own way. So that's how I do it So I filled them up. So started with Arlington Court My second one was Clifton, which we have made her as adventures videos in and I filled that one up It started in 1989 the final property. I went to was cobbly woodland garden in Wales in 1996 So what happens? I've been to 28 properties. I was very proud of it. You know, I was still only a quite a young child So what happens you Well, the last page is missing that you you stamp on the last page You send it off which I can show you in my current one because it hasn't obviously been done. Yeah Where are we? So now it's 30. It says congratulations on visiting 30 properties So you'll have it stamped there stamp it here send it off to them and they send you a certificate So in 1996 when I've been when I filled up this passport by going to 28 properties I got this my certificate to say I've been to 28 properties now Some people will do that and stop there. Not me. I bought another one and I you know picks up from where I left off. So the first place on this one Literally days days after cobbly woodland garden in Wales on the same holiday went to Abadolais Falls, which is near Neath in South Wales It's an amazing place. It's a hydroelectric power station. I've been back since I have to go back again and make Henry's adventures video. So when you go to the property the second time You don't have it stamped. I have seen some people doing it and that's cheating So I don't agree with that the I have it stamped once every time I go to each property and a bit like Trainspotting like trying to see every type of train or traveling or track based and traveling every bit track I'm going to go to every national trust property. So I started this one in July 1996 with Abadolais Falls And when did I finish it? I finished Hail's Abbey in 2002. Hail's Abbey is a funny one because it's got an English Heritage style stamp because it's Owned by the National Trust, but it's maintained by English Heritage So there's a few like that where English Heritage and National Trust, you know collaborate I don't think English Heritage does a passport like this. I've never seen one if they did I'll certainly buy it and I'll be doing the same thing. So once that one was filled up I then moved on to this one now the reason there's a post it knows a couple of things I was going to show you in this one and The passport you can see is changed. It's red. Unfortunately the paper quality wasn't great And we have problems with the ink coming through but to be fair the National Trust don't make this one anymore I think they realized so, you know what I wanted to show you in this one is this places I've got I Wouldn't quite say they don't exist anymore, but they you can't get the stamp So the final one on this one was the shop in Stratford upon Avon Now I went there my girlfriend last time I said to her I'll find the National Trust Shop you can get your passport stamp. Well, there's no longer a national trust shop there So that's a stamp. I've got you can't get any more So, you know, I think that's a shame and then when we get on to my next passport There's a design has changed now. It's green. I've got a few like that and actually this one's interesting because it starts There's the National Trust of Scotland, which are very similar and basically do the same thing starts with Colovian battlefield in Scotland So I you know that was where I started this one obviously bought in fact It's all a piece of paper that I've stuck in so obviously went there not expecting to get any stamps Suddenly realized I was at Colovian battlefield had it done on a piece of paper and I stuck it in when I got home So that's the post-it notes Another one York shop The shop is still there, but I'm sure when I asked them if they stamp passports They said no if anyone from National Trust is watching and wants to confirm Does York the shop at York still stamp passports and they do and you know, please let me know because My girlfriend hasn't had her one stamped and she has been in that shop But they didn't seem to know anything about it when I went another interesting one. Well, there's the shop in Wales Not sure about that one. I'd like to think they still do. It's a different sort of stamp. It's not the standard square stamp He lists. I'm really proud. I've got he lists. That's the National Trust's head office So it's in the old railway works at Swindon I tried not to put any trains in this one, but you know, it was inevitable really so in the old railway works at Swindon is he lists and funny enough next door's English heritage So I've got a stamp there and so that's quite nice to know and Another one, I know you cannot get the building exists Well, because pretty much any build National Trust have will exist there. It's bluecoast school in London It was an old school quite close to Victoria station and it used to be a national trust shop for London So I've got my passport stamp there the schools there. It's a different sort of shop I think the National Trust own it, but it's not a national trust shop So again, I don't think anyone can get that stamp anymore. So I finished this passport When did I finish it in? This is my in 2012 at Fine Court was a funny one They just had a tiny little stamp of National Trust leave and we just wrote fine court So, you know and I've been to it's interesting because some say like all the edge in an older book It says all the edge stamp passports. I went there last year I couldn't find anywhere to get my passport stamped So there's a few funny ones where you're not sure if you're gonna get them or not But pretty much all the big properties will stamp passports and most of the small ones And then this is this was my last passport and Started with a rather worn out sultrum stamp And I think it's funny because it's got the word tram in sultrum Even though it is nothing to do with trams and then I got, you know, a few in that one And the one I'm particularly proud of is I went to Carl's birthplace And day before in Scotland and I went to Gleelston Garden, but they didn't have a stamp So there's no Gleelston Garden stamp. That's at Card Ross, but they did at Carlisle's birthplace So I went there You know one day in the week after I've been up to Scotland on my way back It's in a funny little village called Eccl Feckon The West Coast Mainline Passage through there Although Thomas Carlisle never liked anything new such as railways So he wouldn't have been that impressed and I went there Well, I think quite good that my trainer friend had to take me by a car who lived in the area from Lockerbie Railway Station. Anyway, so I went to Carlisle's birthplace and then later on that week I was going up to London and that's where Thomas Carlisle had his house in London It's also National Trust. I thought right. I'm gonna go to Carlisle's house in London And I want to you know effectively hear chapter 2 of the story and I'm really proud I've got Carlisle's birthplace and Carlisle's house on one page This is what I was saying about the funny stamp scene. I'm not sure where that is It's pretty somewhere in Northumberland, but that for Northumberland with Carlisle's house It kind of doesn't go. So that's why I You know basically stopped doing that if you look at my last few stamps in this passport I I just asked them to stamp it in the middle and That's now my way of doing it. So I filled up. So that's for the passports basically Certificates. I had this one on going to 28 now It's quite unusual for people to do it twice But so what they did they had to put two stars on and they put twice And I thought what's gonna happen when I get free So what they did I didn't get any stars this time, but they wrote third certificate So I've now by then I've been to 28 properties twice But as I showed you this is my sixth passport one now So this was my fourth certificate the concept has changed this lovely image It's basically like a perfect world of just ever of most of the national trust properties I could look at that for hours and you know point them all out and then after my Fourth certificate. I've got my fifth certificate and then when this one is full up I'll get my sick certificate I'm gonna keep going till I've been to all of them and that and that includes the Scottish ones So national trust as England Wales and Northern Ireland and there's the national trust of Scotland But you know the two overlap if you're a member of national trust you can go to the Scottish properties You remember the Scottish national trust you can come to the English Ash Trust properties. So that is basically Another way of collecting things I I basically I don't collect stamps on you know So that's some people's hobby and that's great if that's the hobby I'm not a stamp collector, but I'm effectively collecting visits to places So following on from national trust properties another similar thing I was doing Involving you know effectively collecting visits was in around late 90s year 2000 My family and I've started staying at you fosters So what I would do at you fosters each one has its own stamp and you can get this little book and You get a stamp each you fosters you go to which you know I again found really exciting and I got some new fosters You know that don't exist I think I've been to York more than any other one because every time there was an event on at National Rail Museum I tend to go to it and but you know I Like it because I've got like I said about national trust properties shops that don't exist I've got here why it's a slim bridge That's not there anymore and what we used to do was we'd go hopping effectively It was a good way of having a week-long holiday in about three or four different places wasn't expensive So we'd say you fast or you know and we go to national trust places go for walks go to railways go to the beach and You know it was a great way of doing it's a lot on one holiday in 2002 We went to Castleheadingham in Essex and we went to Blacks or a village in the middle of Suffolk And then we moved on to Great Yarmouth and then finally Norwich Now I don't think any of those for you fosters exist anymore So they're all stamps, you know the Norwich one closed very soon after we visited. I remember it used to be a child's home It was a big 1930s house. I expect they demolished it I have looked since trying to work out where in Norwich it was I've been to Norwich a few times as some of you would have seen in my videos I'd love to know where it was or if even it's still there So if anyone knows where Norwich youth hostel was that closed in about 2002 if you could comment and tell me I'll be really grateful to hear from you. So That was the first one then I got this one and I carried on, you know, I went there's white J. R. Lim I've since been back there made a Henry's adventures video another youth hostel. I've made a video out I didn't say this there's no stamp and was Hardington Hall in the village of Hardington I was in the vision Hardington walked up and just said to them I just said, you know, can I make a video here promote you kind of thing people, you know And I said, oh, yeah, yeah, go for it. So I had a wander around. It's really exciting youth hostel It's a big old hall in the peak district. So I made a video there the last one I stayed at was also in that area It was at Dimming'sdale, which is in the Churnett Valley So not that far about 10 miles away So that was in 2015 I last stayed at youth hostel So I really should go and do some hustling once we come out of lockdown. That's not there either the Dimming'sdale I'm funny the stamp says I don't know if you can see it, but it says I Found Dimming'sdale because it was so difficult to find. So That's the youth hostels and before that there was a quite a few of past that was national trust There is no kind of, you know, you don't get a certificate when you've been to all the youth hostels So I will get it stamped twice. So like every time I get to York I get stamped again because it's not cheating I wouldn't do that with national trust properties. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that little insight into my life of you know Collecting visits so to speak and you know when we come out of lockdown Why not go and stay a few youth hostels go and visit some national trust properties or what you could do You know, if you go with friends or you're a couple or whoever Why not buy a passport and like I bought my girlfriend one and then you can have a competition between each other I'm way ahead of my girlfriend And and I'm a bit more in competition with my sisters They've been because they've been going through all my life and they're catching me up They haven't beaten me yet But I first noticed people having a competition to go to national trust property to see who could get the most Well, my plan is to get all of them because that's the sort of person out. I just love going to places That's why I very rarely make videos at home It's only now when you know, I can't really go out and it's the right thing to do to be at home I'm making these kind of videos I remember going to pet with house and there was these old ladies and they were all you know, one of them So I've now been to my 38th national trust property. I've been through the other ones. That's well It's my 41st national trust which I've been to and the other ones. Oh, I bet comes it's more than about you You're not coming something. So, you know, people do actually have competitions. So why not do it? Why not buy yourself a passport and have a bit of a competition between your partner or your friends, you know or your mother or your grandparents or your cousins, you know Visit national trust properties that they're great places to visit anyway Hope you enjoyed this video Please do feel free to like subscribe comment tell your friends to the next door neighbor about national trust properties like you fossils about Henry's adventures Thank you very much for watching and goodbye