ALTHORP

Today we went to Althorp, Carol and her friend Karen really wanted to go there. I was a little against that idea, but sure glad we went. Again, we could not take any pictures inside, that would defeat the purpose of them selling books with all of the inside pictures I guess. The inside was spectacular, even saw the one bedroom that Winston Churchill slept in. The entire place is full of beautiful paintings. The library was awsome, I tough they had to many books, but the one guy said that was nothing, there is only 1o thousand books now, there used to be 50 thousands. Most of the furnishing and painting was brought there before the war for safe keeping, as the Spencer house was a target during the war, and was actually hit during the war, so most of all those valuable things would of been destroyed, if one of the Spencer did not bring all of those for safe keeping. Aparently the current Earl still lives there from time to time. Good place to see if your ever in the area.