 Hello, thank you for joining me. This is a bit of a different video from my usual ones. As you can see we're not out and about somewhere I'm sitting at home in my house. Now I'm recording this video during the November lockdown Although by the time you watch it would have moved on somewhat from those lockdowns You may remember during the first lockdown I recorded a series of videos from home Because I simply ran out of new adventures during the November lockdown I had plenty of adventures to publish of places. I've visited in September and October so they were published throughout November now here we are November. I'm not out making out and about so I thought I'd do one from at home. I do prefer to go out and about and make my videos Some people are very good at sitting at home talking for me. I like to walk around and you know show you places Show you the real thing rather than sit and talk but you know, I'm gonna have another go at it because We can't go out and about so much at the moment. So During the first few videos I made during the last lockdown Three of them were about railway subjects and the other one was about National Trust and these passports which you can buy in any of their shops and you get a stamp at each property You went to so what I thought I'd do This is gonna be a series of five videos I'm gonna talk you through each passport give you a very brief story on each property now I know there's seven passports in front of me So you're briefing your wife you're gonna do five for the reason for that is this is my first second third fourth fifth and sixth The sixth one is incomplete and this one here. This is my girlfriend's passport So what I'm gonna do go in this video I'm gonna go through my first passport to you a little bit about each one and put them here like this So you can see the evolution of them. By the way, if you get the most modern one This actually comes in three different colors might even be more, but you certainly get in pink I think you can get it in bright green not this green a really bright green. I think gray. So Maybe when I fill up this one, my next one might be green Maybe we'll have to wait and see it won't be just yet. Unfortunately 2020 Is one of only three years in my life where I've not been to a new national trust property the other years were 1997 and 2016 it doesn't mean I didn't visit national trust properties in 1997 2016 I just didn't go to any new ones. So I must have just been revisiting old ones this year I've hardly been to any I have been to one or two, but again, they were all revisited My first passport here is the first property in it is this one here Arlington Court Now I was a baby when I went there. So I don't actually remember anything from that visit But I do remember on a later visit. I think it was in the year 2000 We went to Arlington Court I remember sitting having a picnic and a horse and car came up the drive and I thought it's rather funny to run in front of the horse and I remember running and the horses were getting closer and closer Eventually I Managed to get out of it just in time before they caught me up And then we went off on a nice walk down to the O Valley second property. I visited was Clifton Clifton is a property. I know very well. It's what I've been doing more times than any others I did at one point volunteer there in the forestry team, which I really really enjoyed So Clifton, I know really well. I could I could probably talk for hours about Clifton There's so many different things to see there. There's the water gardens. There's a maze There's the part and you can walk down to the River Thames. It's got its hanging woods It's quite unusual shape. It's a long thin property I'd say Clifton is really worth visit. They're all really worth a visit, but Clifton, I do know very well Third property I visited St. Michael's Mount not been back to St. Michael's Mount since and I I don't actually remember anything of this visit, but I have seen from pictures. We actually Went out on a boat and then the tide was out so we walked back And since then I have seen St. Michael's Mount and if you get the train down to Penns actually do You can see St. Michael's Mount If if you're coming into Penns out Penns out, so if you look out on your left hand side, you will see St. Michael's Mount So definitely somewhere we should go again in the future My fourth property was land hydrox Now I do remember something of this visit. We went for a walk down away from the property and Down by the river. I'm not entirely sure which river it was But I remember seeing a class 47 and go past on the Great Western Main Line down at Bobman Parkway station and part of the estate does go down to Nida Raleigh. So I remember seeing a class 47 down there. So that's quite happy memory My next property again, I do remember this Basildon Park Now Basildon Park was for me as a small child as much as I did like running around exploring the gardens It was very frustrating because you could quite clearly hear the Great Western Main Line It's on the section between Reading and Didger But you we didn't I don't remember seeing any on a later visit I remember going there and I found a couple of spots from in the garden where you could see the railway But I just remember hearing the trains had not been able to see them Next property was Cannons Ashford. Now I don't remember anything from that first visit But I have since been back again. It's a very interesting property across the road There's the old church which was once part of a priory So Cannons Ashford is in Northamptonshire. Somewhere perhaps I should go again at some point Next property was found quite local to me West Wickham Park I've been there many times over the years. I've always enjoyed West Wickham Park I really should go there and do Henry's events video because it's a fascinating property It's not a huge property or the pleasure gardens aren't huge. The estate is huge Nearby you've got the Hellfire Caves which aren't National Trust but again we should still go there I find the system of waterways from the River Y they've got West Wickham Park very fascinating There just seems to be water everywhere you go. You're forever walking over bridges And there's some interesting temples so West Wickham Park will definitely go to again Now my next property I can I do remember this one Sheffield Park Garden And go back to railways. I remember having a picnic and this time clear steam trains Of course Sheffield Park is also a railway station on the Bluebell Railway And after we'd walked around I remember walking around a big lake at Sheffield Park It was you know very attractive gardens. I thought you know it was really enjoying it And I couldn't believe it afterwards when we actually went to the Bluebell Railway You know for me it was a great day. We visited National Trust property and the Bluebell Railway I remember having a trip on the Bluebell Railway is when it only went from Sheffield Park To Hallstead Keynes on back. I think we rode behind a new class. In fact have a look at the link on screen now. That's an archive one of my archive videos from that day. There's no Sheffield Park There is the Bluebell Railway. My next property Wadston Manor in Buckinghamshire It's one I've been to quite a few times over the years. It's built in the style of a French Chateau. It's one of the Rothschild properties and my main memory from there is the Avery. There's a huge Avery full of birds and there's also a load of rocks which I always found quite fascinating So yeah that's again like I say I'd say well worth a visit. They're all well worth a visit So you know when things get back to normal if you're wondering what to do Go and visit some of these places. Next one is Clermont Landscape Gardens down in Surrey Another it's a landscape garden. There's not actually a house there or there is but it's not National Trust so you can't go in the house it's just landscape gardens beautiful gardens quite a few temples grotto so you walk around the lakes. I remember going there again a few times over the years and you can go up onto the hills and get great views over the garden. I really should go back there. I haven't been back there for a while. Next property Stowe Landscape Gardens Now Stowe is I'd say it's got to be one of the best one of my favorite National Trust properties. It is so vast. There's so many different temples and just about everything. I remember going there numerous times over the years and there's the Stowe School which isn't actually National Trust. I have been in there on a different visit but the school the old house is the school the stately home is the school and so that's not National Trust but Landscape Gardens are and I could I like if I did a Henry's of Edgeview I pretty have to do more than one to show you everything so at some point the future will go there and I'll do that. Then my next one is Westbury Court Garden. It's quite a small garden I remember I don't remember too much it's down it's not Westbury in Wiltshire and it's Westbury on seven so it's near the seven estuary. I remember there was these long canal like gardens so these long sort of linear ponds and it wasn't a huge place but I sort of remember walking around around gardens. Next one is Deering Park. Deering Park was one we used to go to quite a lot if we went ever on holiday to the Y Valley area where Tinton Abbey is we used to go on holiday there quite a lot we quite would often stop at Deering Park on the way on the way back and I remember so you got the house and the gardens out the back there's a church up on one side I don't remember too much about the gardens I haven't been there but we did use to go there quite a lot when I was little. The next one is one I couldn't possibly forget I've never been back there it's Corf Castle. Now Corf Castle I've been past it numerous times on the Swanage Railway but I've not actually ever been been back since that visit but Corf Castle when I really should go there great place for watching trains probably as if I went there I'll probably never be able to I'd have to time my visit around the trains because I'd be taking advantage of it being such a great vantage point for the Swanage Railway. Although that said that's the Corf Castle have a look at the link on screen now to me exploring Corf Castle model village which has a brilliant model of Corf Castle before it became ruined. So our next property Hewingdon Manor now this was quite an interesting visit they were having a Thomas the Tank Engine day there and Christopher Aldry was there and I had a book signed by him so I was still quite small but I met Christopher Aldry there and yeah I've got a book signed by him and I had this rather ridiculous looking lorry they've made into Thomas the Tank Engine it's quite an it was quite an amusing thing. Next property Buckland Abbey down in Devon I don't remember too much I just sort of really remember there being a rockery there and you could see from looking at the house because I I like looking at ruined abbeys so I remember sort of trying to sort of I could work out what was what parts were obviously the Abbey once and where it been built onto and that but I really should go back there I don't remember too much and next property is Castle Drogo the castle built by Luchins it's possibly one of the newest castles there is it was only built about it was built in the early 1900s by Edwin Luchins and I remember going around the castle walking around the grounds. Next one Winkworth Arboretum I do remember quite well it's a big Arboretum down in Surrey near Godelming I remember you sort of start up at the top and you work your way down through the woods and there's a little red entrance everywhere and you end up down at the bottom of the hill and there was a few lakes along the way and you've got very nice views everywhere so that's another nice property. Now on the same day we went to this one Oakhurst Cottage now this was a little cottage nearby and I remember a lady showed you around and it was a little I think it was a little fat cottage I have to go back there again I don't know the significance on that one as to why the National Trust got it maybe it's just it was perfectly preserved but hopefully we'll go back there and do a video one day and the next one's Charcot Park. I remember we went there it's the Warwickshire we went there on the way to a holiday up up near Bridgenorth in Shropshire and I think it's the first place I recall seeing deer Charcot Park is one of about 12 maybe National Trust properties that have deer the other notable notable ones Zattingham which we'll get on to in a minute Dun and Massey's got them which I've never been to where else has got them Petworth has got them the Belton house which I haven't been to it's also got me at Charella so we definitely definitely go there that's got deer so there's quite a few properties have deer Deneffa Park which I think might be the next one that's hot here so that's Charcot Park oh and then Talking of Attingham Attingham Park I know Attingham Park quite well visited many times and when I lived in Shrewsbury I used to volunteer there so I know Attingham Park quite well I used to volunteer with the the estates team so I know the estate very well so the actual pleasure gardens aren't huge but the wider estate is enormous it's got something like 11 tenant farmers on and if you know where to go in the gardens you can see or on the estate I should say you can see the railway line which runs from Wolverhampton across the Shrewsbury now next one Bench Hall Hall I think it's one of the funniest names it's um quite a small property but it's a very interesting it's um it's a hall at a church by I remember the ponds I remember looking for fish in one of the ponds and sort of moving the lilies trying to find the fish it didn't have a huge garden but it was quite good fun to explore next one's Carding Mill Valley Carding Mill Valley um also known as the Long Minde it's in Shropshire it's near Church Trenton if you catch the train up from up to Shrewsbury from the Welsh Marches line it's on your left basically it's uh it's really just a big area of land there's no house no pleasure gardens there but it's a very nice place it can be quite bleak though but you get some lovely views on a clear day next one's Dunster Castle another one on that list where you can see trains from you can see the West Somerset Railway um quite a lot of memories there I remember sitting having a picnic and seeing um 7F number 5308 in the distance with a train on the West Somerset Railway um I remember walking around the grounds so it's a castle set up on a hill and there's sort of paths around the edges of the hill and going down to Dunster Water Mill on the River Able so quite interesting property Lake Hock Abbey I don't remember too much I do remember how seeing the cloisters I believe it was there the cloisters are quite well preserved it's quite interesting in some of the ones that have got Abbey in the name is because they've been completely flattened and they've been built on the Abbey but with Lake Hock they actually built kind of above it and they preserved the Abbey so it's quite an exciting property we should go there again at some point we should go to all of these again at some point next one Hinton Ampler down in Hampshire I remember we went there for some family friends of ours and I remember my friend and I two boys running around the garden just enjoying it really um not taking too much interest in the history but um I just do remember sort of playing in the gardens there I've got two more now so this takes us up to 1996 we've got the vine which is in Hampshire that's quite an interesting property um it's situated by a lake and then you've got the woods on the other side so you can do some quite extensive walk stair and then we're going to finish with cobbly woodland garden which is down in south wales now I remember that being one of the most exciting places I've ever been to it seemed everywhere you went there were little streams you went through the woods and there were steps up and down it was just just really enjoyable we must have gone well actually they went in May yeah because I distinctly remember there being bluebells everywhere really was um a lovely place so that brings us up to 1996 in the next video I'll talk you through my second one identical to this one to look at um I'll tell you the places I visited on my second national trust passport so hope you enjoyed it thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe comment tell your friends both about national trust and henry's adventures and you know go out buy yourself one of these passports um I bought my girlfriend this one for christmas one year and um said to her you know you can start collecting you've got a long way to go if you want to catch me up but you know you can start so yeah why not buy buy someone one for christmas present um and go and visit them and you know get your passports thanks thank you very much for watching goodbye